i am not a techie. no IT guy at all. i came across bitcoin by means of a historic perspective. what strikes me most is the blatant ignorance of most of the IT guys that i talk about bitcoin. they always laugh. i mean those guys are professionals, the make their income because they figured out that digitization is a mega trend, but they refuse to see the elegance of bitcoin. how can this be?
They do see it. That laugh is a nervous one, that covers up a little bit of anger, and feelings of 'missing out'.
I know a lot of IT guys myself.Funny is that I, a non IT guy, was the only one, who knew about Bitcoin and the only taking it serious since ~4 years now. And right now they are hyping Blockchain! Blockchain here, Blockchain there! Bitcoin? Meehh!! Waste of money, will get displaced pretty soon, and so on.
Sometimes I ask myself if they are doing this on purpose. Maybe because, as you mentioned, they might have realized that they missed a big chance.Or maybe because a non professional techy guy like me knew about Bitcoin before them?!