If we step outside of our echo chamber, we are pretty far from peak interest seen in 2021. Even when we hit ATH recently youtubers were saying they were only getting a fraction of traffic from back then.

My vote is positive but low, in that after 15 years it should, and generally is common knowledge of the existence of Bitcoin - we are not finding large new naive communities that will embrace the orange life. But new people do get interested in economics and start to understand the system a little better, so it is positive. Places like El Salvador are setting education of public officials to be a political objective, which in turn will likely produce more orange pilled.

However, A pill implies the changing of a world view.

A baby today has always existed in a world of Bitcoin. By the time they are a teenager, they very likely will have always used Bitcoin, or their parents. Their parents may hold it in retirement accounts without ever realizing.

Orange Pilled being the norm, thus no radical change of perspective; it’s hard to say it’s a pilled state and not just a state from birth. So eventually, the first derivative will be negative, not because less people are using Bitcoin, but because default state will imply it; the eventual orange pill is non existent - and nonsensical, because why would it be any other way?

Total UTXO count, hash rate, and price are all on the rise. Bitcoin is absolutely growing imo.

I voted for plus minus zero. Very subjective opinion though based on what I see around me. But I live in a bubble which hasn’t changed much recently: people are either in already or don’t give a damn.

Orange pilling has become much easier recently. Not sure exactly why. But it is happening more than ever before in my own experience.

People will become more interested when it peaks next year. And they will buy at the peak and sell when it dips, and be angry.

I think it is positive in number but if Reddit is any gauge: they are low-quality mindsets.

I know we'd like to have a million people buy $100 each, but I think it's more likely we get ten businesses buying $10 million each...

We can vote with our instincts but I don't see if there's any proven way of measuring Bitcoin adoption so far.

I’d say people are becoming more Interested but the price hasn’t sky rocketed enough to have people have that FOMO. Although it will happen again as we’ve seen

I think a lot more people are paying a small amount of attention but it's not thier main focus. Kinda like they see Bitcoin in thier peripheral vision but haven't turned thier head to really look at it.

In other words, I think the orange pill barrier has lowered and the next wave of people being orange pilled well be much larger than the previous.

People where I live are staying away from BTC because of the Ponzzi. But that is changing thanks to a great effort by the Bitcoin community to educate, and help understand that the most important thing is not the price, but rather what surrounds Bitcoin and its future. That has helped many take the orange pill

It's sad, but normies won't come around withoug NgU activated

Everyone I come around contact with in the city and by phone has been getting Orange Pilled. In years past it was once in a while, this year everyone gets it!

as you think, so shall be. for the idea to manifest into reality, it first has to appear in the mind.

that said, i think there is a moderate amount of orange-pilling happening globally, but the anglish-speaking countries are lagging way behind. that is why the memes are the strongest there - they have to be.

I get the impression AI has overtaken bitcoin as the technology of disruption in the zeitgeist. Until the average person can use it non-custodially and be their own bank, it's an investment and there isn't going to be much adoption beyond ETFs. As much as bitcoiners want it to be true, ecash doesn't fix this. Ecash fixes the privacy of banks and bank-like services, but it doesn't fix bitcoin self-custody and without self-custody bitcoin is a better gold best suited to the people who need it least.

I'm optimistic this will change, but it'll be long after everyone is done gaslightning themselves about our as-is half-baked revolution.

Around all time high