"Crypto is mid compared to AI"

For sake of argument, round everything else to zero. (I don't believe that, personally.)

In less than 16 years:

1. Created digital gold with $1.9 trillion in market cap

2. Created a Turing complete decentralized censorship-resitant global computer that is steadily scaling it's throughput with $400 billion market cap.

AI has been around since the 1960s and gone through multiple boom / overhyped cycles. 

ChatGPT is 60 years of compounding.

is there good data on how much $ has been invested in crypto pre-bitcoin and AI before the last few years? crypto strikes me as pretty wild/singular bc it seems that so much of the "investment" capital is just making the thing and it working... not even VC (though obviously there has been a lot of VC money put in since BTC)