Growth on alt tech platforms is incremental. People will sign up after some outrage on Twitter, talk for a bit about how great it is, then most of them fuck off back to Twitter once the outrage dies down. A few from each wave stay though. There needs to be a broader culture here though - no doubt about it.

I like Bitcoin but it's no substitute for having a personality and I must admit I find the mindless optimism of the orange pill crowd grating because it's the same techno-utopianism that's been the curse of the internet since the beginning - some piece of code has arrived to save us all and we can just sit back and let it do it's thing - and this time we get to be rich! It's childish, and meanwhile we're all slipping further and further into serfdom every day while Bitcoin has fixed precisely nothing.