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> Bitcoin has been in existence for just 13 years.

Yeah, imagine how small the adoption would be of some other mysterious newfangled tech thing after only 13 years...

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/27/8504033/apple-iphone-sale...



Wireless communication was invented in like 1900 and it took til 2007 to make a desirable device everyone wanted to have, good point


Why stop by comparing it all wireless communication? Why don't you compare it to the act of speaking, or the act of making noise with a mouth? Then it took the iPhone millions of years to take off, so bitcoin has plenty of time.


Pretty sure radio and television were ubiquitous a few decades before that.




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