Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream

Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by bdamm on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:24PM (#14925865)

Your mom is an outlier.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by coldtea on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:26AM (#14926996)

Not really. Don't know when you lads/lasses were born, but the Web was already mainstream, with everybody and their dog getting on it, on 1998-9 or so. It didn't have to wait until Facebook.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by rubidium on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:23AM (#14928132)

In the US, 30% adoption by 1998, 50% adoption by 2000. But much higher rates of adoption for the wealthier households and much lower for the poorer.

So depends on your economic state then.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by coldtea on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:08PM (#14930128)

30% is still totally mainstream, even if it's the richer 30%.

Imagine a music genre that 30% of the population enjoys. In what way wouldn't that be totally mainstream?

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by phaemon on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:18AM (#14928423)

> Your mom is an outlier.

That comment is funnier when you haven't read the parent comment. I imagine it as a statistician's snub.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by wil421 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:36PM (#14925912)

Probably for using Google early but not search engines. Vaguely remember school computer labs with various search engine in late 90s.

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