Are Bitcoin Startups a Safer Investment Than Bitcoin?

There are huge investments being made into this new technology, and more and more venture capital firms and angel investors are now looking for businesses related to cryptocurrency to invest in.
Even though the price is at an all-time low this year, a lot of companies are hesitant to invest in the currency itself but are instead choosing to invest in companies related to it. Why is this? And does an investment in a company related to an unreliable technology just bring more risk?
Bitcoin is a Behemoth
With a current market cap of over 6 billion U. S. dollars, Bitcoin is slowly but surely getting established as something that has to be taken into account in many markets and technologies. But just like with David and Goliath, there are not only advantages of becoming big and established. Just like big corporations often lose that flexibility that they once had, Bitcoin is slowly losing its ability to adapt to new changes in its environment.

This post was published at Crypto Coinnoisseur on Septemeber 21, 2014.