Now, crypto is a currency people can choose to use. They don't have to. We need to build it as good as possible so that people who choose it, can. And those of us who want and have time and resources, focus on building good showcases, demonstrating that it works. Is rapid adoption that necessary? We need to be able to learn as we scale upwards. Right now, we're in the middle of the development after having learnt that "on-chain isn't the be-all end-all scaling solution". It was a fight getting here, and in the end the big-blockers went and created their own coin, which I think was good for all parties. Has it gone viral already, in a way?
Bitcoin will become really popular when it is the right time, even if the technology is incredible it is still not ready, we need the lightning network to be ready before tens of millions of people can adopt bitcoin, it is my opinion we are going to see a huge explosion in the amount of people that adopt bitcoin and several other good cryptocurrencies when we begin to see countries around the world having problems with their economies.