RE: Bitcoin S-curve happening
Of course it is probably a case of interpretation. A recent survey found the following:
“not surprisingly, younger Americans were more likely to have heard of bitcoin as compared to their older counterparts. 86.67 percent of respondents between the ages of 18 and 24 have heard of bitcoin, while only 75.93 percent of respondents ages 55 and older have heard of bitcoin. It was a consistent trend that as respondents got older, their likelihood of hearing about bitcoin went down.”
In 2015 there were about 686 altcoins
Re: How many altcoins are there?
October 02, 2015, 05:53:32 PM
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According to Coinmarketcap, there are 686 alt coins in circulation, however there might be more alt coins around which are not listed in the site.
There were more than 900 cryptocurrencies available over the internet as of 11 July 2017 Source: Wikipedia (as of today
On coinmarketcap as of Sep 22, 2017 2:55 PM UTC there were 1113 altcoins) although I have heard elsewhere there are over 2000. It is as if we are moving beyond an asymptotic behavior into an unbounded behaviour with the expansion of the quantity of altcoins.
Companies like provenance.org are tracking commodities on blockchains. We are on the brink of having altcoins explode exponentially.
Surely we have passed the early adopter stage...
"have heard" is nothing. you have to ask how many used it like an email. i think this percentage is low.
I was very active with something subsequently called CoSy in the late 1980's.
This system was one of the systems that built on the smtp protocol (1972). I can recall as late as 1997 having to convince businesses to use email. Realistically it took about 8 years for email to go through the innovators and early adopter stages. The biggest thing about the 90's was that computers largely were considered business tools. Windows 95 was probably the first consumer oriented Microsoft operating system (Windows 3.1 was okay but still needed a higher level of proficiency to install drivers). Within 3 years Windows 98 was released ... a truly internet integrated operating system.
It was used by about 14% of the population in about 6 months.
The simplest way to gauge the adoption of Bitcoin users would be to look at the two largest online wallets:
Blockchain.info
Coinbase
Combined they have about 37 million users. This does not take into account Bitcoin wallet holders, Trezor etc. wallet holders (lots of duplicates of course).
Possibly the best indicator will be the growth of STEEM. The learning curve is almost non-existent...(write good stuff, like good stuff)