...Mainstream use of phone started like that yes.... phone technology did not. There was lots of work in infrastructure first, what we now see in bitcoinland. I'm sure with bitcoin it won't take many decades, don"t you think?
Allright, Bitcoin is more useful than the telephone. And the people who got the first phones, the early adopter visionaries, all got filthy rich.
You are either really bad at analogies or really good at creating false analogies.