There's no telling what will happen to bitcoins, but my point is, interest is no sign of value. Now if I could invest in cats, that would be a different story.
Just in case this was a reply to my now-deleted comment: Sorry about that. I deleted it because I replied to the wrong comment. I reposted it elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405339
Here's a comparison of the interest of the public in Bitcoin and Myspace. Now consider the value of Myspace in the present and the value of Bitcoin in the future: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin%2C%20myspace&...
There's no telling what will happen to bitcoins, but my point is, interest is no sign of value. Now if I could invest in cats, that would be a different story.