Now is not the time to invest in bitcoin but eventually it will be.
Just wait for the price to go down

Well it's statically as improbable as every person on earth loosing his credit card overnight, so don't worry about bitcoin loss. Lesser availability of bitcoin would mean it's value actually going up. It's more of the demand and volume of transactions that matters as said in some previous posts.

As for the water bottle example, you are bothered by details, most variables of btc aren't linked to deep physical limitations. The current btc is not suitable for such a transaction ofc, but that's irrelevant to the possibilities of blockchain.

Really, be it a water bottle or a Playstation 5, or a Ford F-Series, the physical goods market evade cryptos and that's the only challenge for it's growth. Humans need fuel to live, and they but it with fiat. And the reason is political otherwise they would have a plethoric amount of entrepreneurs willing to accept blockchain powered money for their products. Elon Musk tried it for a time even, there's little doubt why he dropped the opportunity.

West Africans and Hindus getting access to internet won't make a huge difference also c'mon.

Bitcoins and other cryptos will never become mainstream before... people can buy water bottles with them.

Quite simple, many expecting an explosive entropy of the bitcoin adoption / price but truth is the average folk most common needs and use of money aren't met by bitcoin, this fact goes against the very foundation of any successfully implemented mean of money anytime across recorded history. It really is a political problem at it's core, the deep states run by bankers won't let a viable alternative co-exist in the streets, I have no doubt that truly liberal and free alien civilizations, the blockchain technology would have attained universal adoption in a shorter time that the cryptos have been around by now here.

What are your takes about that sentiment?

Well that sound like a reddit problem lol.
Well, I think you'll just be better of ignoring their anti-btc but really any btc hater, internet's a public place, everyone throw their 2 cents abour things they don't understand.

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I'll hope other gafam follow suit, they have a lot to win in decentralization, traditional banking is basically the only counterweight to the tech world being king.

Holding bitcoins will not make you rich, sorry, it's a digital currency aimed at decentralization and freedom not getting rich. In order to get rich you must create value in the physical world. Good luck !

Welcome to the club buddy, make sure you hold your coins in a safe manner and don't get baited when signs of bear market appears.

Kind of expected from a wall street banker.
They can't control it so they will try to sink it as much as possible. The whole idea of decentralization is a nightmare to their monopoly.

Well I think for most people cryptos are the way to freedom rather than money.