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It's not only about the broad appeal of censorship resistance. What matters is how much more the people who care about censorship resistance care about it compared to how much everyone else cares about the advantages of their money.
If we care about using bitcoin and everyone else is indifferent about which money to use, then bitcoin wins eventually, regardless of how few we are.
Fair point. I think most people don’t value censorship resistance until they personally need it ; which is exactly why adoption feels slow until suddenly it doesn’t.
Or most people are sheep, including Bitcoiners.
imo that's a charitable interpretation of people who say "we're so early"
I think a lot of it is also price cope. reassuring oneself that the price is still gonna go up and they're still gonna come out ahead having bought bitcoin
When I hear people say "we're early", it usually sounds something like an explanation for why Bitcoin isn't more widely used. "We are early in the adoption curve."
But usually when I hear the term "late" in this context, it is describing an individual who feels like they should have gotten into Bitcoin years before they actually did.
It's interesting to think about whether or not we are late in the adoption curve. Probably not. But the lack of adoption (despite the ETFs and institutions) does make me wonder if we have overestimated the appeal of censorship resistance.