It won't wake up the people but the companies will realize the benefits their company can have (security, efficiency, costs,...) Not to say some companies will have no choice to use the technology to adapt its activity around the tendencies. In the future, people will use the blockchain tech/crypto tokens without knowing it
Indeed, if you are using bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency you are absolutely safe from such cyber attacks because you won't give away your private keys to any government database. the only risk is on your side if you mistakenly saved your private key on your computer's hard drive and got hacked yourself.