• Technology in the lab (t=0)
• Technology in the first company (t=2–10 years post-lab)
• Technology in the first successful company (t=5–20 years post-lab)
• Technology acceptance (t=10–25 years post-lab)
Source:
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/AcceptanceModels.pdf
In these slides, Richard gives several examples that match this model and includes several additional explanations.
For example:
• First window system: Stanford/SRI/Xerox PARC ~1975, MIT ~1976
• First commercial use: Symbolics (1979), LMI (1979), Xerox Star (~1980), Apple Lisa (~1982), Apple Macintosh (1984)
• First use by a successful company: Microsoft (~1989)
• Technology acceptance: Microsoft (~1995)
Spreadsheets are another example that is given in the slides. In fact, 25 years for acceptance are quite common in software. Sometimes, it also takes much longer.
Either you understand this perspective or you don't.
We are talking about blockchain not one of the ways it can be realized, bitcoin.
Furthermore, I gave a couple of examples of how the blockchain can be used no one is being scammed with that. In fact it allows for things that have never been possible before because you will not see nation-states work together in any meaningful way to solve these problems.
Did you diversify into other crypto currencies? You are only worth anything once you actually cash out into USD
Oh, and cause global warming and destroy the planet. That way humans will have to come up with a non-government backed currency.