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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
Dafar
on 03/02/2017, 15:14:31 UTC
Back above $1K, and not a single Average Joe around me knows anything more about Bitcoin/blockchain than they did in 2013, or even seems to care.  This is amazing.

Now I know why they call them "late adopters".  I don't blame the really old, the really young or the unborn. I blame the older, middle-aged folks who have money to invest, but are just too plain ignorant to see the financial change tsunami that is coming.  By the time they finally look up, Bitcoin will be well north of $10K.

I remember my grandmother still writing physical checks for everything, 7-8 years after the rest of society had moved on to using the debit card. She finally used one a few years before she died, and I remember the look on her face.... she was blown away at the convenience. Priceless.

I remember me getting on dial-up on the PC in my bedroom, when my parents though I was in there "hacking" ala War Games style.  They thought the internet was and always would be just a toy for nerds.

I remember carrying around a clunky Treo smartphone (which was actually smaller than your average smartphone today), when literally *everyone* thought smartphones were for nerds.  Especially the women, lol.



Agreed, I'm surprised at how little people know about bitcoin even now. I never thought I was an early adopter but I'm beginning to think we are. I'm glad there is no hype and media attention around $1000 this time... we need to stop putting $1000 on a pedestal, it's long overdue... I want the hype to come when we hit the next milestone of $2000... and then people will be like oh shit, I knew about bitcoin when it was $900!