It will indeed be interesting to see how things play out, though interesting isn't always good. It might also not be a very good experiment. Path dependence is huge, and the store-of-value role seems likely to play a bigger role in trying to shape expectations around an otherwise ephemeral digital currency while bootstrapping, yet a focus on it might nonetheless wind up ham-stringing us in the long run...

Which, to be sure, is very much like Darwinism has played out in many other contexts.