If you see history as important and as a foundation, as a criteria to measure potency and growth, then you really should check out the behavior of Bitcoin over the years and it's performance, Bitcoin is like a train, it moves, may have few stops, but the whole story is that it goes forward. Even as the world evolves, the evolution also includes the relevance of Bitcoin, in some places that didn't accept Bitcoin for trade and exchange, now do, and soon there won't be a place where Bitcoin isn't accepted. Not to worry, with Bitcoin, before it's relevance is lost, it won't be in your lifetime. All I said I tried to hit the mark. Somebody else can go on about the figures and stuff .