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It's a decade josh and it's still unusable for 80% of people on this planet. I was as excited as everyone was in 2012 but that plateu is just going on and on.

birracerveza 4y ago
Since 2012 the situation has changed quite a bit. Adoption has increased massively. It's just doing it so slowly you aren't noticing it's happening. Not to mention the adoption possibly going on behind the scenes.
- badpun 4y ago
  > Adoption has increased massively. Adoption? More like, speculation. I still don't know anyone who's doing any real world transactions with crypto, but I know people who hold it for speculation purposes.
- croak3r 4y ago
  Seems to me like adoption has gone backwards in some regards. Look at companies like Steam which at one point were accepting bitcoin but then pulled the plug on it. I also don't know anyone that owns crypto for any reason other than as an investment.
- itsoktocry 4y ago
  >Adoption has increased massively. Adoption has mostly increased thanks to centralization, via exchanges, which seems antithetical to Bitcoin's foundation. What's the number one use case? Speculation and scams. I'm not sure it's going in the right direction.
sam_goody 4y ago
> It's a decade josh and it's still unusable for 80% of people on this planet. To be fair, so is Linux.
Steve0 4y ago
Feels like arpanet atm, so give it some time. https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timeline/ https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timel...
redditor98654 4y ago
I have a question to people who were around and have a memory of the times because I don’t as I was not born yet. But does the crypto thing feel similar to how the internet started in the late 80’s and early 90’s before finally taking off? I recall some videos/articles dissing internet as a passing fad at that time - does anyone who remember what it was like then think the crypto industry going through something similar?
- Nursie 4y ago
  God no. The utility of systems like email was very quickly apparent, and while the 90s web was much more about publishing structured information than any sort of interaction, again it was pretty immediately recognised as a powerful, useful thing. I don’t recall any negativity to “the internet”, but a lot for the dot com hype cycle, which is what I think cryptocurrency most closely resembles, but it has dragged on for years
  - mratsim 4y ago
    - https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/08/25-years-here-are-worst-ever-predictions-about-internet https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/08/25-years-h... "The Internet, bah. Hype alert" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg "What is the Internet, Anyway?"

birracerveza 4y ago

Since 2012 the situation has changed quite a bit. Adoption has increased massively. It's just doing it so slowly you aren't noticing it's happening. Not to mention the adoption possibly going on behind the scenes.

badpun 4y ago
> Adoption has increased massively. Adoption? More like, speculation. I still don't know anyone who's doing any real world transactions with crypto, but I know people who hold it for speculation purposes.
croak3r 4y ago
Seems to me like adoption has gone backwards in some regards. Look at companies like Steam which at one point were accepting bitcoin but then pulled the plug on it. I also don't know anyone that owns crypto for any reason other than as an investment.
itsoktocry 4y ago
>Adoption has increased massively. Adoption has mostly increased thanks to centralization, via exchanges, which seems antithetical to Bitcoin's foundation. What's the number one use case? Speculation and scams. I'm not sure it's going in the right direction.

sam_goody 4y ago

> It's a decade josh and it's still unusable for 80% of people on this planet. To be fair, so is Linux.

Steve0 4y ago

Feels like arpanet atm, so give it some time. https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timeline/ https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timel...

redditor98654 4y ago

I have a question to people who were around and have a memory of the times because I don’t as I was not born yet. But does the crypto thing feel similar to how the internet started in the late 80’s and early 90’s before finally taking off? I recall some videos/articles dissing internet as a passing fad at that time - does anyone who remember what it was like then think the crypto industry going through something similar?

Nursie 4y ago
God no. The utility of systems like email was very quickly apparent, and while the 90s web was much more about publishing structured information than any sort of interaction, again it was pretty immediately recognised as a powerful, useful thing. I don’t recall any negativity to “the internet”, but a lot for the dot com hype cycle, which is what I think cryptocurrency most closely resembles, but it has dragged on for years
- mratsim 4y ago
  - https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/08/25-years-here-are-worst-ever-predictions-about-internet https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/08/25-years-h... "The Internet, bah. Hype alert" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg "What is the Internet, Anyway?"