Difference is Web has 300M users at 5 years mark, we have no more than 1M users at 5 years mark. At this rate, it'll be year 2150 when we reach 1% population
Still very early adoption stage
Once Bitcoin is integrated to the masses through social media we will have growth
December, 1995 - internet users
16 millions
0.4 % of world population
December, 1996
36 millions
0.9 %
December, 1997
70 millions
1.7 %
December, 1998
147 millions
3.6 %
December, 1999
248 millions
4.1 %
March, 2000
304 millions
5.0 %
July, 2000
359 millions
5.9 %
March, 2001
458 millions
7.6 %
April, 2002
558 millions
8.6 %
March, 2003
608 millions
9.7 %
Dec, 2009
1,802 millions
26.6 %
Mar, 2014 (est.)
2,937 millions
40.9 %