The Internet in the 1980's and 1990's followed exactly the same path as Bitcoin does today. When I first got involved in 1989, the people I explained the technology to didn't get it at all.

Later in the mid 90's, the Internet had the reputation as a network only used by criminals and pornographers, I was considered deviant by building the infrastructure.

Later as it became more apparent as to the potential of the Internet battles ensued within my company to gain control, I lost the internal battle so focused externally and built a large data centre business which ended up increasing my families public company share price 10 fold, leading to a hostile takeover after its collapse with the dot dom crash.

The difference between the Internet and Bitcoin?

The Internet was a threat to middle industries who were numerous but unorganised and mostly unprepared for the onslaught that was the Internet.

Bitcoin is a threat to governments and banks who, despite being centralised and having far greater power, still suffer from game theory, which John Nash successfully predicted would force these organisations to play a game that disadvantages them, because not playing, disadvantages them more.