13-14 years is a lifetime if you’re a dog. It’s not even one generation for a person.
Discussion
Depends on the angle that you take. Regarding people’s knowledge and awareness of it, is what I covered in my comment. But regarding the big perspective I agree, 13-14 years is nothing, compared to the US dollar for example
It took decades for the telephone to become a standard home appliance. People usually point to a new technology adoption curve graph like this one. Bitcoin is gaining momentum faster than even the Internet did.
It’s not just Bitcoin though. Most of my crypto friends never use bitcoin itself when doing transactions or anything. Saying “Bitcoin” but meaning cryptocurrencies as a whole is misleading
Bitcoin has maintained the first-mover advantage and network effect that I don’t think can be overcome by any of the 22,000+ tokens that have come along since. The others were either forks of copies of bitcoin, and/or were centralized and pre-mined from the start, or are outright scams. For bitcoin to reach its true potential it will need to find more adoption from people who have never touched crypto in the first place. That’s what this experiment were taking to each other on is all about.