There is a
Hype Cycle developed by Gartner used to represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies.
It goes as follow:
1. Technology Trigger
2. Peak of inflated expectations
3. Through of disillusion
4. Slope of enlightenment
5. Plateau of productivity
I would like to know, as a technology and as a practical service, where would you locate Bitcoin?
In this link you can take the poll. I can't post images, that's why I created this poll so you can see the graph and vote.
https://PollEv.com/clickable_images/IoW5ZLcHxVyCyhFo22VaN/webI think if we will talk about technology then we mention Blockchain, not Bitcoin.
And second, if we are talking about Blockchain, I guess we are on the first steps (Technology Trigger) yet. Because all the world has just started to learn about Blockchain. And all of us is trying to create something create.
Bitcoin is the first product of Blockchain that we have learned. But it is not a technology itself. It is output from Blockchain. When I mention this, I don't want to tell you that Bitcoin is not important. It is so important. But it is not a tech.