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Last year, 16 percent of Americans said they had personally invested in or traded cryptocurrency. Only three percent of all of the vehicles sold in 2021 were all electric (EVs).

But if you watched the Super Bowl, the commercials for crypto trading platforms and EVs dominated the ad space—often with the support of celebrities. (Unless I missed it, there was not a single commercial for a gas-powered vehicle the entire game.) The money is flowing toward big bets on the future.

Sometimes it is hard to see disruption coming, and sometimes it is hard to interpret what disruption means. These two categories represent opposite types of bets: on something very new, intangible, and arguably speculative; and on something old and incredible tangible, with complex operations and global supply chains.

In this case, I’d personally place my bets on the 130-year-old industry over the new digitally-driven technology. The blockchain is revolutionary, but I agree with the analysts mentioned in the article linked above that there are clear parallels between the 2000 dot-com bubble and the risky crypto markets today. Sometimes the anticipation and excitement about a new technology can blind us to the fact that markets are still markets.