Back then, we only had Bukele (president of El salvador) as the national leader that was actively and loudly pushing for crypto adaption. Then Trump followed and now we have so many candidates for presidency and already presidents pushing for bitcoin. I think that this is a testament to how much bitcoin has grown that not only your average citizens know and use bitcoin but also presidents. Bitcoin mass adaption might come a lot sooner than everyone initially thought.
I'm going to be one of the spoiler alert on this El Salvador Bitcoin influence. Bukele did aloy I must say and I was really impressed with his mandate trying to make everyone use Bitcoin but people were all in for the money, they all sold their airdrop Bitcoin and the wallet were abandoned like no airdrop ever happened, in fact Bitcoin dump that very day the airdrop was sent out, people were really after the money the can spend immediately than holding it.
Trump gave us another meme coin instead of making Bitcoin a personal investment, like how it was going to look like if he made Bitcoin as part of US investment but who knows it's for the best for making Bitcoin his normal talk and never involved it with his politics, the tarrif war has seen enough and the impact on the Bitcoin price. These men just have one thing in common, and that's how it's going to favour's them, they don't really care like the way an ordinary claim to be.