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 or scared 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 speed and 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* had crappy flip phones and thought that smartphones were only for nerds. Especially the women, lol.
Yes, such a common story and why the people who see things early get the most benefit.
We get set in our ways and our understanding of how things work / "should" be.
The majority of us get our new information (news) from the same sources: msm tv / radio / web. A much smaller percentage get it from more niche websites like Wired etc. Almost all media surrounding bitcoin has been overwhelmingly negative, pushing the status quo agenda; even the positive 'price going up' reports come with that air of disdain & mocking that often accompanies new things that people don't understand. It just has to seep into consciousness over a period of time.
For the regular person to get an understanding of bitcoin means they have to invest their own time and learn concepts foreign to them. Not a quick process. But humans are good at adapting quickly at that pivotal moment of stress - that moment they realize their currency is being tanked or inflation is eating them alive. That's when you learn shit real quick. You hear about it and see it as a solution. You talk about it with friends, research it and dive in. That's why I think bitcoin comes into its own as the system crumbles.