Many people who knew about bitcoin in the past, or early stages did not invest not just because they didn’t believe the price will reach this level but at that time people were still new to digital assets and a lot scams were going on online too which made people very sceptical about investing.
But now anyone who has heard of bitcoin and has not started investing no matter how small is just not ready to take his/her Financial freedom seriously. Now is a good time to buy, cause bitcoin have the potential to reach $1m and it has proven all haters and doubters wrong in the past and will continue to do so. Just find a way to get started.
I don't think scam was the main pioneer factor to why many people never wanted to invest in Bitcoin, the big concern was the sinusoidal waves of the price. Human likes money, they are marvel with the return they afr going to get from their investment but none of them are ready to look the price correction. How many times did government says a lot of damages about Bitcoin, it hurt the price for some times but you can't kill what it was meant to do and that was why the price never surrender to their bullies and obviously, many weren't prepared to take the risk.
Unfortunately, now that Bitcoin has developed a strong force, everyone wish they clear their doubt and goes all in back then and refused to listen to what many people that criticized about Bitcoin. It's what it's now, but it better to be late than never. You don't have to own a full amount of Bitcoin to be a maximalist, even if Bitcoin price should comes down to $1000/BTC today, there people that can't afford that full amount. Buy the amount you know you can afford at that particular time and make your peace with the future.