the people who did invest didn't have to invest much money, when it first came out, if you had invested $10, you would have a nice fortune now....because its sitting in the thousands now, i feel very few people for this reason wont invest in it, even if i did a $1000 now, i think it would take forever to see a huge outcome compared to the first investors.
consider this:
shares of a lot of companies in the world have been stupidly cheap when they started. companies such as Apple, or Facebook,... and now they are stupidly high.
obviously many bought them when they were cheap.
do you think nobody is buying them now just because those first wave bought it cheap and are now rich because they were fast and wiser?
Now that people see the uses and market for online currencys, a lot more people are paying attention to it, due to this, I'm feel the average person will invest in other coins like ethereum, ltc....etc, hoping for a big outcome like bitcoin had.
yeah, well the same way the average person invests in penny stocks in the hope for a big outcome they also invest in altcoins for the same hope. sometimes they get their wish if they are fast and dump after the pump and sometimes they get the sharp end of the knife when they buy after the pump and get dumped on.
but they won't "prosper"!