I don't feel that article got to the heart of the matter. In difficult economic times people want cash, liquid things with hard value. In fact in retrospect, the media urging people to invest in stocks to hedge inflation seems predatory.

There's too much to say on this matter. It was always a gamble. Anyways, I'm keeping my eye on BAT and SOL. Brave / BAT is useful as an advertising platform, and there's a chance SOL could unseat the big payment processers, but they have had lots of problems.