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Because it’s happening slowly and people aren’t paying attention.

• acdha 3y ago
  If a decade and a half with many billions invested is getting such slow adoption, why do we think that’ll change?
  • adastra22 3y ago
    You have oddly fast timelines for adoption. These things take time.
    • acdha 3y ago
      None of the competitors needed anything like decades. Companies like PayPal, Venmo, Square, etc. had far more usage with a year or two of launch, and nothing like the high percentage of companies who started using them and removed the option because the fraud / benefit ratio was dismal.
    • MBCook 3y ago
      The iPhone came out the year before crypto. One of them literally changed the entire world. The other caused totally unnecessary climate change and a bunch of people lost all their money. So, I’ll ask the question that I seem to have to ask in every thread. It’s been 15 years. How long do we have to wait? 30? 50? 100?
      • adastra22 3y ago
        I got involved with bitcoin in 2010. I never expected it to take off (price-wise) so soon. I thought maybe 2050, and I still think that's a reasonable guess. Overturning the global financial system from the bottom-up takes time. ARPANet started in 1969. The internet as we know it today didn't take off until the late 90's, and wasn't a profitable world-changing sector until the 00's.