Bitcoins and other cryptos will never become mainstream before... people can buy water bottles with them.
Quite simple, many expecting an explosive entropy of the bitcoin adoption / price but truth is the average folk most common needs and use of money aren't met by bitcoin, this fact goes against the very foundation of any successfully implemented mean of money anytime across recorded history. It really is a political problem at it's core, the deep states run by bankers won't let a viable alternative co-exist in the streets. I have no doubt that with truly liberal and free alien civilizations, the blockchain technology would have attained (for all purposes) universal adoption in a shorter time that the cryptos have been around by now here.
What are your takes about that sentiment?
There are so may barrier that is limiting the adoption and use if Bitcoin. One if it is that most people see the coin as an asset rather than a currency. People prefer to use hodl it than to use it as a currency. Its profitability will continue to make people see it as an investment rather than a currency. Politics has also affected the adoption of the currency. Most countries have made unfavourable policies that have discouraged people from using Bitcoin for daily transactions. Some politicians see it as a threat to centralization so they want to do everything possible to discourage people from using it. In developing nations poverty, lack of infrastructure like internet connections and illiteracy will always limit Bitcoin from becoming a mainstream currency. Bitcoin adoption as a currency will happen gradually and it will become faster when the currency becomes less volatile.