That was just how doubting it was to most of us when bitcoin was newly introduced which caused us to miss out in adopting it earlier.
99% of adoptors today never believed bitcoin would be so valuable with such amount of its dominance today simply because we believed it was a scam.
That was really inevitable. However, the reliability to believe in digital finances has not been this convinceable then due to conciousness of being fraudulent victims but perhaps, bitcoin has become an open door for more digital financial inventories to be attracted by the public due to its legitimacy.