Though I'm new in the cryptocurrency space,I have been hearing so much about crypto ( Bitcoin precisely) lately even before I got registered on the forum and I had to ask this very question because in three days I've heard and seen people talk and discuss about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general and it prompted my question wanting to know why it has been talked about this much and gaining more acceptance in my local community despite it's restrictions in my country and is it also gaining this much fame in your environment?
Although not the first cryptocurrency as there are others in the past, but they all failed. But with Satoshi's invention, it really disrupt everything, giving majority of us financial freedom and obviously the price did go up in the last couple of years.
And then we have this kind of activity we call block halving, which we haven't seen before. So the concept and everything is like a first so everyone is jumping on board. Others think it's controversial, calling it scam, and everything negative. But that is the beauty of it, the publicity of it makes it very (in)famous and now everyone wanted to give a piece of it.