In Marketing 101, the chicken-and-egg problem is an example of what to NOT do.
Bitcoin already solved the chicken-and-egg problem. Have you been in a coma since 2011, when Bitcoin obviously started rapidly taking over the world?
Because the TPTB used their mainstream media to promote it. Not because as you asserted that eventually users learn to become ideological after the discovery and learning about the evils of fiat.
You are delusional if you assert you are where you are today without the mainstream media and the elite promoting Bitcoin (in their usual Good Cop, Bad Cop hegelian methodology where they both restrict and promote simultaneously as they do for drugs).
You are a noob and so can be forgiven/educated on what actually happened:
E-cash had a widespread ideological following since the days of William Gibson and Extropy magazine (1990s). Unnoticed, it gestated in the cypherpunk lists...
Decades later, Bitcoin first gained mainstream exposure via the Streisand Effect, when some grandstanding banker-whore Senator (Schumer) held a press conference where his intern or grandson loaded Silk Road up on a laptop to give the press some Shock Horror jollies.
Silk Road worked splendidly as an actual Amazon for drugs, to the delight of thousands of 20-30 somethings who ignore any MSM beyond Daily Show, Gawker, and Conde Naste organs like Reddit and Wired (who mostly regurgitated FUD along the lines of 'Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme for Terrorists?')
TPTB and their VC flunkies came late to the party. As did you. It was much cooler before all the lamers showed up...
