Do you see many institutional investors in Bitcoin at this time? Are pension funds including Bitcoin in their portfolios? I have exposure to this information at my job and can assure you they are not.
Based on this I would say that we are still in the stealth phase, possibly moving into the awareness phase.
That's great info to know bro. I feel the same in people around me. Most do not want to know much about bitcoin, but they have heard about it already. If this graph is going to be true... the big raise is much yet to come.
Unless people are living under a rock they have heard about bitcoin at lest once, bitcoin is on many place, it is on the news like the last time that ransomware blocked many computers and it is even on the financial news where analysts give their opinion about bitcoin, the only thing we are missing is adoption.
Ransomeware has caused a worldwide crisis, many people have said that bitcoin is the cause of the consequences, however, here, bitcoin is just a tool, it is taken advantage of. Even then, bitcoin is also trusted because of its security.
Virus Ransomeware just is a trick by rich man and whales want PR the value of Bitcoin and attractive investor on the world. You also see after this event, the price of Bitcoin increase very fast until today, because many people from user buy Bitcoin for pay to hacker become to trader.