Nobody believed in Bitcoin in the beginning, When Bitcoin was out for 1 year
Silk Road was created in 201, an estimated $15 million in transactions were made annually on Silk Road.
Standard BS, $15 million volume doesn't mean that people believed in it, this just shows that most people didn't even understand it because they were buying drugs using ledger that is public.
I don't know what is the average volume for Byteball, but it's seems like around 40k, that is also $15 million per year
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/byteball/historical-data/Silk Road got popular mid-2011, Bitcoin got first time noticed in end of 2010 (almost 2 years after launch) when Wikileaks got banned by Paypal/Visa/Mastercard
https://youtu.be/qBQtKvrCxCg?t=2148