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Try to image 10 years from now...It will be comparable with 2009 "early adopters"?

Yes we are, considering the fact that Bitcoin came into existence as the mainstream of Blockchain technology but still pending in the hands of the government is the reason to say we are early adopters. 2009-2018 still look younger for such technology to spread across the breath and length of the universe.

We are definitely still in the early adoption phase.

If you look at how many transactions are done on the bitcoin network or at the number of people who own bitcoin, you'll realize that the number is way lower than one would assume.

After a few years (e.g. 10), the adoption will be many times higher than it is currently.
Even though this is not an indicator for an extremely increasing price (what most are aiming for who hope to be an 'early adopter'), this means that the whole eco system around bitcoin is going to get bigger and bigger.

I can very well imagine a future with shops hosting their lightning node, accepting BTC naturally. Compared to such a future, we are at the very beginning (where a lot of people still havn't heard of BTC and only a minority does own some).

Sure. A good number of people already know about bitcoin, but the total percentage of people using/owning bitcoin worldwide is still very small(I don't have the numbers to back this up, but I'm quite sure about this). We are early adopters, assuming that bitcoin will be successful in the end. Always take note of that- even though I'm extremely bullish on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, the chance of these succeeding is not 100%. That's why it's always advised to speculate or 'invest' wisely.

I think we are still early adopters. Bitcoin is still not recognized by people as a real money. So we still have a lot of BTC savings until it gets people. And become legal in other countries and demand is increasing.

We are not, we should accept the fact that we are late for almost a decade now.
But still as the market goes down and the price is low now, we got the great deal.
we are now back in time where we can accommodate some coins lower than before.

I believe we still are, considering that regulations and acknowledgment only came rushing 8 years after bitcoin's inception. Also, only those who fully understand the system are taking the risks of accepting and using bitcoin at the moment; the ones who don't are still left behind and there's still a lot in store for them should they accept bitcoin. We'll be moving on to the next phase if more and more merchants started to adopt bitcoin in their services and goods for real, with or without third-party services that instantly converts BTC to USD/fiat.

How can you say that early adopters were those who came a decade ago? Even if you joined you were about to make more than 1000% on your investment. These numbers are restricted only for early adopters. If Bitcoin ever goes past 20000 dollars people will be gaining more than 300%. Try making a similar number on stocks. If you do, you're usually an early adopter.

I can't tell myself that am part of the "EARLY ADOPTERS" but we can call ourselves the middle men,lol!  a decade is too much to be called early.

Yes, more or less. If Bitcoin follows the trajectory of other widely adopted technologies -- like televisions and cell phones -- then it's still very early. At most, 5-10% of people in developed countries own cryptocurrency, and the numbers are far lower in undeveloped countries. We still have a long way to go.

No, it's not comparable at all. Although we are still at an early stage, it's not the same as in 2009. Now it's much easier to join this ecosystem and bet on its future. Bitcoin is much better known now than ten years ago. Those who got into bitcoin from the beginning did it because they really believed in an idea, not because they saw an article in a newspaper explaining how bitcoin reached $20,000. The real early adopters are them.

I guess we are, but I wish I was "earlier" adopter.

In my opinion Bitcoin usage will boom when it becomes more user friendly, so illiterate people can use it for example like credit card.

I wish, I had entered cryptocurrencies market sooner. But I think we are early adopters. Because cryptocurrencies are still new and we don't see they are used for payments. I am sure there will be many progresses and new projects on cryptocurrencies in future. Many efforts will be made to make the cryptocurrencies a tool to be used for daily transactions. So, yes. We are early adopters.

Then what would You say for "us" who joined to the community like a year ago?

YES! Definitely!

First, we know that bitcoin or cryptocurrency hasn't reached anything close to maturity of adoption and acceptance. But that begs the question, after ten years should we have reached that level of adoption? All we can do is compare this technology innovation with others.

The most similar technology innovation is the internet. The internet (called Arapnet at the time) was invented in 1983 and by 1993 we the technology was known by many but not used by most and certainly not evolved to represent the obvious and irreplaceable use it has in everything we do every waking hour of every single day. Back then it was novel, now it's a necessity to keep the world moving.

I don't know if Bitcoin will ever have that prominence but cryptocurrency definitely has a valuable place in modern economics. And blockchain technology is quietly being spread and investigated within the Corporate world.

Yes, I agree with the subject wherein I would consider  that all people in this forum were still considered as the early adopter's of cryptocurrency technology since not all people knew about this technology. Though, btc had started 10 years ago but it was the time where the technology to kick off while in the current situation, it had started to spread throughout the globe and people in different countries had just started to participate. I believe that in the coming 10 years, cryptocurrency will surely be a success wherein mass adaptation will be multiplied and business sectors will be adapting the blockchain technology which is the contributing factor to it's success.

Cryptocurrency (or Bitcoin) mass adoption and business sectors using blockchain technology are two different things.

There is greater certainty that business sectors will adopt blockchain technology for all sorts of purposes than for the mass adoption of cryptocurrency as a currency that could replace fiat.

I still see that we are early adopters up until now. Though there's no basis on how long you have to be here just to say that you can be an early adopter but at least we're still part of it. Bitcoin is still young and not everyone knew it already, we're part of those people that have heard it earlier and the number's just increasing yearly so consider ourselves as one. While others have heard about it, you can't be sure if they really hold bitcoin but if you do have it, count yourself.

Its hard to compare it the adopter on 2009 is much wealthy right now that the incoming adopter they have more advantages because they already experienced all the fluctuation of bitcoin value and they already know hthe trend of the of this currency.

I can understand people thinking they have missed the boat because of the
amount of coins mined but i would agree that we are still at the early stage
of adoption. We have to remember there is a limit to the amount of coins
available and in the future they will be more difficult to aquire.

Well it depends on what the op means by 'early ' because mining is already extremely difficult and so anybody wishing to mine bitcoin is already late. Investors on the other hand could be classified in between early and latecomers whereas mass adoption is still in the early phase.

in truth, it all boils down to semantics. different folks will have different ideas about what "early adopter" means. i would certainly say we're still in the "early adopter" phase. even though most people have heard of bitcoin by now, very few people have actually bought or used it.


comparing to 2009 is a stretch IMO. i think that BTC will be worth millions of dollars apiece someday. but the rise from here to $1MM is tiny compared to the rise from $0 to $6000 in terms of percentage growth.

yes we are, only few people in the world knows cryptocurrencies and blockchain i mean some know it by tje name only but they dont understand it they just heard it like if i ask my friends about it they dont know anything on it, only on or 2 % of thw world population understand it, so its a long way to go,. for us

I wouldn’t say that we are called early adopters because even with mining, the difficulty rate is so extreme that coupled with power usages it’s barely profitable but there is a way we can be called early adopters that’s if Bitcoins reaches $1,000,000.

Bitcoin mass adoption still not happen in most country in the world. I am believe we still can call us as early adopters. Bitcoin early adopter when bitcoin come out at 2009, right now must be enjoying their self and must be already rich.

The fact that only few people in the world knows about and uses cryptocurrencies prove that we are still in its early stage. When is this going to change? We never know. Maybe the crypto world will expand in 5 years, maybe it will take a decade. Who knows.

I believe yes since crypto still isnt widely used all over the world. Some people doesnt even have a clue what crypto currencies are. Crypto still has more to offer and will bring more in the future.

I think so because before many people get to know about crypto currency existence I am able to earn from it. It is still early because it is not widely uses before but now it can use even we pay on offline stores. The price is lower now which gives opportunity to everyone to buy huge volume to hold and get profit when the price recover. The number of users and demand is increasing, hope that helps to improve the price in the market.

If compared to 10 years to come, I think the price of bitcoin is already very high. Because from year to year many people know and hold on to bitcoin. It could be that the price of bitcoin will be very expensive in the future.

It's actually hard right now to be considered as an early adopter because it has already been almost 10 years now since the release of the bitcoin network.
The price also has been raised so much since the beginning of 2009. It depends on the time and price of the bitcoin now. If bitcoin survives in the long run then we will be considered as an early adopter.
If the price of bitcoin raises more than it is right now then we will be considered as early adopters.

Today we can use Bitcoin as a payment method in few places where are not important places. Most of the money depositors do it for earning some USD and the only goal is paper money. If Bitcoin could not be measured with paper money, it wouldn't be as thematic today. Apart from making money people need to understand that Bitcoin is more valuable than it looks. So my opinion is that we are still in the early adaptation.
I am aware that so many things was changed, plenty of users, dozens of exchanges. But it's too early and still needs a lot of change.

I think so, particularly in terms of the relativity of the crypto space market and how much more gigantic this could get, considering that this technology is really going to take off.

i am not early adopters, but maybe only adopters. Because i join this business when bitcoin is quite high for me, and it will really affect for crypto community. But i will support bitcoin as long it still exist.

The crypto space has evolved a lot from 2009 to date, but we still av a long way to go. Considering the fact that the rate of adoption isn't really significant, we can safely say we're still the early adopters. I'll refer to those who got in around 2009 as the forerunners. ;D

We are still early adopter of of bitcoin or cryptocurrency because all of us now is starting and although many people know about Bitcoin/cryptocurreny We can't say that 100% in the world use bitcoin/cryptocurrency so I can say that it's not to late for them because we are on starting line.

Very interesting guys! :)

And, in your opinion, Bitcoin can be used as worldwide currency in the next 10/15 years?

Considering the depth and the potential of the Crypto system, we are still the "Early Adopters", even though it has been more than 9 years that the Bitcoin is in the market. It is still not recognized by the majority of people on earth as a currency and it has to go a long way to achieve that.

If we are talking about Bitcoin in seperate way to the cryptocurrency I will consider that we are not early adopters because early adopters before can get bitcoin easily for free unlike now even you spent a year or decade you cannot get 1 bitcoin for free.

But if we will talk about cryptocurrency in general I can consider that we are still early adopters because there are lots of projects that hasnt been made that will give us the chance to get a coin with a cheap price and wait for that project to boom in the market.

what you say is more like being on the ground floor which was 2009 and price of practically $0. and now we are still early adopters because bitcoin is not yet at that final mass adopted stage where we can say the adoption rate will now slow down drastically and with it the price rises. we are far from that actually which makes us still early adopters.

another thing that i would like to point out here is the risk of being an early adopter. people nowadays only focus on the profit they have made without looking at the risk. someone who spent time mining bitcoin in 2009 or bought bitcoin with real money later one when it was worth something like $0.01 was taking a huge risk compared to someone who is buying bitcoin now that it is an established currency at $6000

Bitcoin has the capacity to rise in price as time goes on, so I believe that even the people who are buying bitcoin presently will still be referred to as early adopters in years to come. Same way we are making reference to year 2009 today is same way people will refer to 2018 in future.

Nah, I think we are past that point now. Do you think you are a early adopter, when you bought stocks in Facebook or Microsoft after 10 years ? The spike in 2017 was the event that spearheaded Bitcoin's awareness with the general public and most people entered the scene or they made the decision not to buy.

My definition of a early investor is a person that bought a stock or bitcoins, when it was still relatively unknown to the general public and also very cheap.  ::)

I only think if bitcoin will be used by everyone in the world in the future, or at least they know about bitcoin and its functions. Technological developments and changes in human attitudes in their daily lives will be different from today, and surely in the future human life will not be separated from technology.

As a bitcoin payment system has become an alternative tool today, I have a little story and this fact happens. I have a family who lives in another country and he wants to send money to my bank account, but can you guess what happens? It took me two days to get the money and arrived at my bank account. That is an annoying thing, bitcoin should be able to mediate it.

It's been 9 years since the bitcoin came into existence in the financial system of globe with peculiar technology name Blockchain.With this amount of time,you can't say that it is new to the world.The feeling of early adopters is due to the amount of people that are into bitcoin but i think everyone should judge this by the amount of people knowing about bitcoin and the number increases drastically.People are not involving in bitcoin or crypto is due the political issues and the feeling of loosing money and if that gets improved you will see many people comming together in crypto.

Strictly saying we are not early adoptes any more, those times are gone if we compare with users that adopted Bitcoin when it first appeared.
But if you look from the other angle and see that Bitcoin is still very young and not present and used so long and that the future of cryptocurrencies is yet to come then we could say we are kind of early adopters.
Also Bitcoin and blockchain as a technology still have space for further development and improvements so from that point of view this is still early stage.

From 2009 till now, I will say we are still the early adopters. Millions of people around the globe still haven't heard the word "bitcoin" before not to talk of even "cryptocurrency". If regulation comes in now then we will have passed the early adopter stage.

Yes, I think we are early adopters when you consider the untapped features of the blockchain. In times to come, we will get to see the full implementation and use of all the features of the blockchain in our everyday life.

Being an early adopters doesn't mean you are the first to adopt it but it matters how it manage to fulfill the dream on becoming one and share the ideology of bitcoin and crypto currency era. First or the last will always be the same because in crypto currency everyday is a new day of challenge and implications towards our assets on how we can blossom it and make out the best of having it for today, tomorrow and to the future.

No, of course, because those people who supported Bitcoin in 2009, it was several hundred people and no more than that, but now it is supported by several millions, this is what makes the difference.

A lot of people could be considered as early adopters, and it would be regarded as on the time of learning about Bitcoin. We would be considered early adopters in a way since the genesis block, as almost every analyst says about Bitcoin, it is still in its infancy, and there are a lot of happenings in the future that we are not yet aware of. You might be thinking that there would be a better cryptocurrency, who knows?

You can be an early adopter and not have many Bitcoins but if you were able to buy it early, you would be really amazed how it happens to be. We shouldn't check whether you are an early adopter or not but as long as you know the community and doing the right things when trading and supporting the currency itself, you are doing a great job.

I think we still can be considered as early addopters. Crypto market is still in its early stage of expansion and  most countries haven't even started crypto adoption yet. I hope the situation changes within a few years.

I don't think that we are the early adopters because today, many people heard about bitcoin although they don't know more about bitcoin. But if we try to imagine for the ten years from now, I think we are still the early adopters because, in that time, there will be many more people will join in bitcoin and they are too late to join. At that time, bitcoin price is on the high price which only people who have big money can buy one bitcoin.

We will definitely remember our early days in this market. When the market is not good and there are many interesting holes. The Cryptocurrency market is slowly evolving, the value of the altcoins being held and they are about to be pumped.

At this stage, not even 10% of the global population is using Bitcoin or altcoin so I would say that anyone joining the crypto industry even today is the early adopter in my honest opinion. I do believe that crypto industry will grow multifold in the coming decade and there are infinite possibilities of opportunities in near future in front of us.

We're definitely still in a early adoption phase. Considering the fact that Bitcoin came into existence as the mainstream of blockchain technology. After a few years,the adoption will be many times higher than it is currently.

I think we are still eraly adopters if you think most of the bitcoin are just in few wallet... but i think still have to come a project that will be more powerfull than a btc!

Accepted that we are still early adopters of bitcoin cryptocurrency but I wonder how it would be like last year when bitcoin price surge so much that it affects the sending fees and withdrawal fees ,I'm hoping in time there will come a new upgrade for bitcoin that will limit or lower the transaction fee.

Satoshi Nakamoto himself said that in future the technology progress will adjust Fee and Scalability :)

We are going into this direction, step by step!

For sure,even the people who enters at 2019 are still early adopters because the crypto currencies still not adopted in main stream for the payment and lot of people may not heard the world crypto currencies yet so if you are buying crypto currencies then glad to be early adopters of crypto currencies.

yes, We are still early adopters, I think, BTC is only 10 years old.

It goes without question that we're early adopters. The blockchain technology that allowed the creation of cryptocurrency is still in it's early stages even if the time has gone from 2009-2018 on top of the fact the government's decision regarding it's expansion is still pending we're still a long way from the final product. With time we'll be able to see the potential of cryptocurrency and what it'll offer then compared to now.

I don't think so, because we are the people who fight for the future of cryptocurrency together, maybe we are at the level of mid-adopters where people together develop bitcoin for the better. 10 years have passed and it's not a little time, bitcoin has experienced tremendous development, they (early adopters) are people around 2009-2011

Yeah I believe we are still early adopter's due to the fact only 1% of the total world population know and use bitcoin at this present time and that goes to show that there is still lots of people who have not hard or adopted bitcoin as they secondary currency, we are still at the early stage of bitcoin and in the next couple of years to come more people are going to come into realizing that bitcoin offers them the total financial freedom to carry out their financial transactions without any third party involvement.

Many big investors and institutional investors have not yet started to invest or just invested a small amount to bitcoin and some big alt like Ether or Ripple. So I think yess you are an early adapter.

Yes, you have a point, In my conclusion, I guess a little percent of people now holding bitcoin but there are huge people didn't know regarding blockchain and the other crypto. They missed the thing that brings cryptocurrency, especially those countries banning crypto.
In that situation, we are on the earlier stage of using bitcoin because of the demand and supply.

I think more so than early, we're in the middle stages now. Anyway, cryptocurrencies or Bitcoin to be exact has been present for a good decade now. Although I agree on the fact that there are still lost for this market and its assets to undergo in terms of developing, increasing in value, getting stable and all other factors that would help it grow. So, although in terms of time of existence, we are not in that "early" stages anymore, but in terms of raw potential, I guess we still are.

I think that those countries and people who are skeptical about bitcoin and technology in general, will soon change their minds and actively begin to interact with these technologies, and this can not be avoided.

I would like to think so, but I fear we are actually in the mid-phase. The true early adopters were those who entered into the market 8-10 years ago. It would be interesting to find say the first 10 to 20 bitcoin holders and firstly find out how they discovered bitcoin and what is their take on the current situation.

I think yes like most of the people here. Bitcoin is still at its early adoptions stage. And still, don't have enough participants to test its true power. I think it will need more effort for bitcoin to be used widely.

If you compare how many people in the world and see how many people knows cryptocurrency, you will see that the percentage of people who knows crypto is still really small, that's why we are now still on early adopters phase

I think that you are right, because we know that bitcoin has a huge potential for development, and therefore its price will be even higher than it is now. Therefore, over time, we will be able to refer to ourselves as "early" followers.

Yeah, maybe with the oncoming world financial collapse... It will happen in next few years

Since it is in its growing phase, we can say taht we are adoption phase. Of course, it's diffrent from 2009. But cryptocurrencies are still new to market and we’ll see many progresses like online shopping by using BTC and altcoins.

Despite the fact that bitcoin has been developing for 10 years and its price is not so low, this is only the beginning for it. This technology has great prospects, and we are witnessing the birth and early development of this cryptocurrency.

Although it seems to us that bitcoin has been created for a long time, this is only the beginning. It is just beginning to get on its feet and be the world currency. And the prospect of development, as we have already seen, it is huge. Therefore, I continue to believe in bitcoin and can refer myself to "early adapters".

A lot of online sites have already started accepting Bitcoin and my first experience to use my Bitcoin to buy a physical item was on Fancy.com and I somehow regret it because, after that, the price of BTC went higher, and it's okay too. As long as you were able to use it, then it's no problem. It has value and other cryptocurrencies should follow.

Bitcoin was implemented around January 2009, if I remember correctly, but the website was registered in 2008, so technically it is 10 years. This was my first time really thinking about it, and more achievements to come for the different applications in real life. It's more fun when a lot of countries would really apply it to be used.

It's not yet long if you compared all the things that were created and you are correct, it's just the beginning. The cryptocurrency is really young, a lot of things could happen and we have yet to find out what it is. And you have the wrong word, it's Adopters. Not adapters. lol  ;D

I agree. There is still so much to come in this space. We are still in the very early stages.

You are right, early adopters are the first ones, who believed in Bitcoin when most people didn't know it yet. All the merit and recognition to these people could be expressed by considering them early adopters, they deserve this status and only them. Those who came after and are still coming are just adopters, new Bitcoin enthusiasts. And in 10 years it won't be different, the beginning of something is a special exclusive moment, it can't be compared to fixed periods of time.

I agree. We are early adopters because it is not yet used by everybody and not all know about it yet. Other know only bitcoin but not all the crypto currency. We are early adopter and there is big opportunity to invest for more volume because the price is cheaper which is good to hold and wait for good time to get profit.

I think we are now transitioning from early adopter and we are about to enter a stage wherein bitcoin and other cryptocurrency will be fully utilized. Maybe by next year we will be seeing more institution fully accepting as it has already started from now on. Also, government regulation is slowly being resolve, which is a good sign.

Early Adopter seems only suitable for people who know bitcoin at prices below 250 USD, because we know that when it booms, BTC hits the price of 20k, and I think that is the maximum price of a coin, so investors are now mid-sized investors where we must work hard so that bitcoin can be known familiar to the whole world

Yes, I think we are the pioneers in using bitcoin or investing in it, because this is only the first stage of bitcoin, yet many do not know much about bitcoin or  they know but know wrong. So we are called "early adopters", we realize this opportunity soon, then we will make a profit from this great opportunity.

Currently we are new users, because there are still many who do not know Crypto, but I am sure that crypto in the future will be more developed and many countries will legalize and make it a daily transaction tool, because the world will be more advanced and crypto is digital money that will be used for daily transactions in the digital era.

In a way we are still early adopters. The world has not embraced cryptocurrency as a whole. It expected to have mainstream acceptance in the very near future.

We may be early adopters if what we all hope to happen to crypto world really happens: and that is worldwide adoption. In that case then we can say we are early adopters in that crypto world will grow massively and by then we might have known how best to navigate around and may have gained some advantages over many.

Well we are, we are kind of early adapters. The mass acceptence of bitcoin globally still didn't happen and it is expected to be in the future but not now.

If you look at the number of businesses that accept bitcoin and the number of countries that have legalised bitcoin, you will find your answer. We are still in early stages.

In my guess we still are. It may seem the time has been long but how many people are eager enough to use it? The number of transactions made will give you the proper idea where we are standing.

I agree, when we are talking about wide spread of adoptions we are still part of those early birds knowing that there's billion of people around the world and  the [percentage of those who are engage with crypto industry is still small, we are lucky if we take this opportunity and learn much deeper about this system, if the real essence of this digital currency will be fulfilled both inside investment and become a currency which will be accepted around the globe, the amount of gains will still be huge if we start now.

I think blockchain and cryptocurrency are still too young. It also has to go through several children in order for cryptocurrencies to reach a new level of popularity.

In 2009 in the early stage of bitcoin and crypto that time was hard because it was a new idea and it was very hard for us and for the users as well that whether it will run in the future or not people will be trust it or not and the investors like now were thought impossible as now the envirronment is very good and it is easy

Don't see how we currently any one can be called early adopters. True early adopters don't question if they are, they are talking about how they are pioneering something new. We have seem multiple bitcoin booms and busts. OMG BTC reached 1 dollar each. OMG BTC at 266 dollars. OMG BTC at 1,000. OMG BTC at 20,000! There is a history of Bitcoin article on Wikipedia. There have been multiple (thousands) of alt-coins. Multiple forks of Bitcoin. There are people on the street who know about Bitcoin but would give you a blank stare if you said Satoshi Nakamoto. We have gone from
CPU -> GPU -> FPGA -> ASIC mining. There are multiple million dollar mining operations being formed. We are old enough that people either don't know or have forgotten Bitcoin's history. We are just around the corner from a Bitcoin ETF and your Grandmother being invested in Bitcoin...     

So you are saying that if the world does not accept bitcoin or other crypto currencies, we are no longer "Early Adopters"? What kind of logic is that. Early adopters are those who got in early and invested on crypto currencies. It does not matter if the world adopts it on later stage or not. They are still the early adopters.
It hasn't been a decade since bitcoin has entered the world. Bitcoin and other crypto currencies still on its infant stage and has a lot to develop. We already "invested" ourselves to crypto currency while others are still waiting on it for further development or to see what happens next before they start adopting crypto currencies. Thus we can consider ourselves as early adopters.

The cryptocurrency technology is still evolving, as it is yet to spread to the world globally and a lot of development is still in store for the community, therefore we qualify to  be term as still part of the early adoptors, therefore we must ensure we are strategic in our approach and invest into BTC in order to enhance it's existence.

we can still be called an early adopter
because bitcoin is currently still not recognized and approved by the government
they are still drafting a law to regulate bitcoin
when bitcoin has been approved, that's when there are no more early adopters
*IMO*

So does a US approved Bitcoin ETF count? Because that has a decent chance of getting approved... next month.

Bitcoin is recognized by governments because many current exchanges have to follow anti-money laundering regulations.. KYC, CIP, etc...
Early adopters were exchanging Linden Dollars for Bitcoin, getting whole bitcoins free from faucets, or even buying on MTGOX (Magic the gathering online exchange) prior to the first big run up to
30 USD. Bitcoin currently has a roughly 100 billion dollar market cap, similar to NIKE, Volkswagen, UPS. At the peak Bitcoin market cap was around 300 billion similar to Visa, Wells Fargo, and Intel. If you invested in Visa or Wells Fargo now would you consider yourself an early adopter?

i think so, because base on surveys only less than 5% knows bitcoin with random interviews, some knew it but they only know the word but they dont understant what it is and they dont own one because they are afraid of something that they dont know.

Expectation about Bitcoin price ATH shows us a 2020-21. So we can call early adopters ourselves. Bitcoin will reach at least 100K. So we are only level of 6K. About 13-14x from here.

Yes If we are looking for around 10 years in crypto then we are really early adopters and If everything goes well, we will see everyone will be adopting crypto and we will be there to guide them and we will know all the things.

It feels awesome isn't it?

yes u R as long as you don't sell them

I don't think we are early adopters anymore. Bitcoin went very much mainstream at the end of the last year.

Yes we are! Bitcoin is still a child but the adoption given to this mainstream of Blockchain is great and it is expected to grow tremendously this coming years. We could not predict what would be the growth rate but it is sure to be that unprecedented. The adoption will cover the whole world and the system might be the future payment system of the world due to its easy access and decentralization.

After the rapid descent of bitcoin in the bear channel, the bulls tried to recoup by starting to rise in the channel from 3500. Not reaching the main line of the downtrend at 3900 fought back on the Junior bear line at 3800.

Those who entered it iznachalno, that is, for those who invented it and promoted from the very beginning, for those who have their millions and this is how he wrote himself Satoshi which according to legend, their was a million pieces)

Everyone currently on this forum and even remotely knowledgeable of blockchain and BTC is still very small.

This will be the case until it becomes safe and easy to use. Not everyone is a geek who is capable of risking losing money in an exchange or to hackers to support decentralization or make money.

It has to be able to be easily used and have clear benefits for its use instead of seen exclusively for its value among opportunists. 

We are still called "early" as long as the government and banks hasn't accept Bitcoin yet. Imagine the price of Bitcoin once it got accepted by the whole world and everyone knows it? It would rise like a sky rocket. So I think we are still called "Early Adopters".

I think, your assumptions is wrong, in fact, today the percentage of bitcoin adopters is increasing better, in my country 70% adopt bitcoin, but they are worried about the government banning bitcoin.

So, our problem today is the government, but we will always be "early adopters".

Yes we are! Currently the price of Bitcoin is so cheap than a million dollar per Bitcoin. Just imagine if it does happen and everybody would be too late to buy from this price.

Gotta love a good shit post.

How on Earth are you even claiming 70% of your country has adopted Bitcoin?

That's one of the most ridiculous statements I've seen in a long time.

I would say so, still a long way to go until it becomes mainstream where most people will at least be aware if not using it.

I think if we had another end of year like last year it would gain huge attention.

Yes, you visualize well it is going to be like that in about 10 years from now we will be called privileged people for being in cryptocurrency 10 years ago.You can not compare with some one who has been in bitcoin since inception in 2009  with us that just started 2 to 3 years ago. There is a great need that we make best use of our privilege today so that we can be better off tomorrow. You can be early adopters without any thing to show for it and that is why everyone should be up and doing to answer that name. EARLY ADOPTER OF CRYPTO

Good thread, good thoughts! I have reasoned similarly also. But I don't think 10 years from now will still be classified as an "early adopters" stage. Even now!

No, you’re not. The early adopters were mining 100 or more coins a day at Deepbit, Ozcoin, BTC Guild and Slush’s pool. Those people cashed out long ago to buy Lambos, houses, and luxury items all over the world.

You’re not actually even in the second wave after the early adopters. Those people could no longer mine fast enough to become famously wealthy so they created the grand scam phase. The grand scammers were members of the Bitcoin Foundation (like Mark Karpeles, Charlie Shrem etc.), Pirates Ponzi pass through operators, Trendon Shavers himself, Michael Moriarty, Erik Voorhees, the 17yo Zhou Tong and hundreds of others. Many of these people became very wealthy and escaped. A few went to prison.

You are actually in the VC wave now. Investors with more money than brains (like the Winklevoss twins) were convinced to invest tons of cash by criminals (like convicted felon Charlie Shrem). These VC investors were left holding bags of bitcoin and are now desperately attempting to figure out what to do with it. I wouldn’t be surprised to find one of them online selling Bitcoin receding hairline tonic or Bitcoin erection pills. Most of them are desperate to keep the exchange rate from falling long enough for them to recover at least some of what they invested, especially since many of the altcoins are making headway into former bitcoin strongholds.

You’re not early adopters coming to bitcoin at this point. In fact, you’re way late to the party, most of the good booze is gone and you’re going to spend the rest of the night drinking cheap wine from a box. LOL

In my opinion i think we are still early adopters because of the fact that  still lot of people are not engage with bitcoin  or crypto. As long as  people cannot accept it along  government also we may say  we are still early adopters.

Regarding bitcoin i do not think that we are still early adopters. However and regarding new crypto projects i think we can to be early adopters because the use of blockchain is in its incial stages of creating things and value.
If you bet in the right horse (cryptocurrency/token) you might be a very wealthy man in the near future, the real problem is to know what are the good ccryptocurrencies, studying and a lot and a lot of luck make part of the process.

You know your history. I fully agree. Everyone else now who is trying to cash in are bag holders compared to those who already cashed out.
I am curious where people think we are on something like this chart. https://i2.wp.com/cryptohustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hype-Cycle-General.png (https://i2.wp.com/cryptohustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hype-Cycle-General.png)
When people are talking about Bitcoin being outdated and replaced by other cryptos it is hard to say you are an early adopter.

I think we can still be tagged early adopters. We are just 10years into something that may last over another 100 years or even beyond. To me, cryptocurrency has not even hit the road yet

No, we are not early adopters. We can call ourselves early majority not early adopters. Early majorities are the people use a system after it became successful and early adopters made big profits.

I agree with this view
We are still in the early stages of bitcoin life
If we believe that comprehensive dependence
 is coming, we must be at an early stage.

We are early users, Many people already know about bitcoin that bitcoin will succeed, maybe not 100%. It is suggested to speculate or 'invest' wisely.

That depends on what will happen in the future.
If cryptocurrencies survive for the next 20 years and succeed to replace Fiat or at least has more value than it does now, then the answer is yes, we are early adopters, otherwise, we can say that we missed the train.

Yes, I think so we are still early adopters   ;) I do believe that we part of the development of Bitcoin so we can still consider it as early adopters. But no matter  we're  late  or  early  to adopt cyrpto  or to know bitcoin  and  choose to engaged  to this   future  technology /  future  digital currency  what's is important  we're  part  of the growing  society  nowadays.

I do think so.
There are times when I think we are so far away from when it was created but if you look at your sorrounding you will see we are not there yet.
A lot of people doesnt even know what bitcoin is.
Been to public places and seen like 1 out of 10 only knew about it.

That is what we need. A huge number of people using crypto. But they are still stuck with the traditional fiat.

Yes, I really want to believe it. I think that's likely to happen. We need to keep our bitcoins. And if you have not bought, it is better to do it now. Bitcoin will definitely be able to beat its last year's record.

Yes. In fact, we can still be "Early Adopters".
The Bitcoin community has grown a lot since 2008. If the trend continues, we are undoubtedly the pioneers.

Actually i don't think that we are still early adopters anymore.. Yes we did but not anymore. Today everyone know about the bitcoin and cryptocurrency and the blockchain system is in our life now. I have met with this community and this forum in 2016 but how i wish that i came earlier.. If i started 2-3 years ago, now i should be a rich man.

Because there is no definitive formula that explains in detail who is an early adopter, but as long as the price of bitcoin has not reached
a very high price, and the total bitcon users are still small, and the age is not old, we think we are still early adopters..

Exactly. There's no specific formula to describe an early adopter. But I'm guessing that the number of users and the price constantly grow decade after decade, going through developments like mass adoption, standard usage, etc.

Bitcoin is still be good as now. In 10 years, many people will know the bitcoin and it will be anywhere in the world. It can be used as a transaction and many more. Bitcoin will change our life in 10 from now.

We are still early adopters I think because we are now getting opportunity to buy more bitcoin. If we are all holding bitcoin there is big hope that the price going to increase again and everyone is waiting for it. Bitcoin have more improvement and really a potential coin, we are early adopters because some country not yet accepting it but we are enjoying the benefit from it already.

I think we have another two to three years window of opportunity maximum for what we call early adoption stages. Once we get customers in from Bakkt, Fidelity and CBOE EFT if accepted etc, then we will see many price hikes in Bitcoin and Altcoins, which may make it harder and harder for newbies down the line to make the kind of multipliers we might still be able to make over the next 2-3 years. I lost almost everything since January 2018 and my capital is very very small now, but am hoping that even if I can get to half the amount I was holding back in January, I will be really happy for the few years of hard work I put in crypto, then I would take 75% out this time so I could be financially comfortable at least and not worry about paying rent, food, and bills for a few years and still try to grow another bag for kid and grand kids.

Nope. early adoption ended in 2013.

We may be early adopters for some altcoins which may boom in the future but not for bitcoin. The early adopting time is kinda over as we have seen many developments already.

I will not argue with the fact that more people still did not knew what Bitcoin is but as we are all agreed, Bitcoin is still young and yet to grow but if you look at the adoption rate and its price trend since its inception wayback 2009, we could say that it has gone so far and would take more miles for the next 10 years.

Not really. When I came in at 2012 very few people were using bitcoin and I could mine tiny little amounts with my laptop.

I think the real early adopters are those who could solo mine on their PCs and get blocks of 50 bitcoins.

By that definition I'm not an early adopter.

And yet we all are early adopters even to this day because the network isn't really up to whitepaper standards yet. We can't yet handle microtransactions and bitcoin has not yet become easy to use for everyone.

Yes we are. If, as I expect, this technology will be there and will become the "base" protocol than we are early.
Imagine this like learning SMTP in the mid 90s.

Even though there has been some advancement the base protocol is still the same and widely used.

maybe it's late for being early adopters of bitcoin but It's not too late for others coins...we must look for coins that are not ico or bounty but people are too stupid for this....I regret I did not get bought coins like litecoin,vertcoin or viacoin when they were very very low in 2015...there is a good dose of luck of course, but you must always do your own researches...for example watch Elicoin in livecoinwatch , is not an ICO or bounty... it's a coin with low mc, low supply, PoW whit cpu, no premine, active dev...only trading it on CREX24 for now...do you own researches in the thread in bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3028302.0..I bought them 2 months ago and if you watch it in livecoinwatch you know why now I laugh very loud :) people are too stupid for DYOR and got scammed by ICO or bounty...just my 2 cents...hope it helps...cheers

I think if you have to wait another year it feels too far and maybe the new generation will start in a good year. I only hope that it will improve and I benefit from all this work.

I agree that the price is low now. In spite of that, I don't think we are early adopters. If we are early adopters, then what about those who bought bitcoin at 1 dollar or mined many bitcoins easily usong a laptop?

I think, that all will be even better, than in 2009)Course should significantly grow.I think it will be about$100 000)and it would not be bad to have a good time to accumulate bitcoins.In 10 years there will be a lot of changes.I think we will be very surprised that what we now think fiction will be the absolute norm.And the information and technological process in the first place.

I don't understand what price has to do with anything. You have coins that are years old and still never reach any certain price. You have fiat currencies that people use everywhere and yet their value goes down year after year. Heard of the US dollar? The later you "get in" on USD, the cheaper it is every day. Early adopters of US dollar bought it at very high prices, don't you think.

Anyway, pointless to ask this question and get in only if you're early adopters. Ask those who thought they were too late in 2012, 2014, 2016.

It's still early for us all to start, because this is just the beginning of development, so many people do not even know bitcoin, so we are; privately-owned jokers; called early adopters

So many people may consider us as early adopters but I will differ slightly from such opinions. If you asked me about who should be considered early adopters then I would say those joined within the very first three years. We those who joined after that only saw that it was good probably from the lifestyle of those who were already in.

Yeah you are free to say like that because the statements and assumptions of people are different and no one forbids it.
that means I'm still an early adopter because I joined in the first decade at the age of bitcoin..

I'm not sure what criterias we should use to define "Early Adopters"
but I think anyone who makes his first bitcoin transaction this year cannot be called early adopter anymore
as of today we have mined roughly 17.3 M BTC, that's 82% of maximum 21 M BTC
IMO, the end of 50 BTC block reward on Nov 28, 2012 should be regarded as the end of early adopter days
this first era of block reward has mined 10.5 M BTC, exactly 50% of total supply

Definitely, many seem to think of the early adopters as those that got in bitcoin very early when the community was incredibly small, but even now the community is still very small with only a couple of million bitcoin users, if bitcoin reaches the adoption we are looking for it is possible we are going to be smaller than 1% of the total users of bitcoin and that means we will be early adopters.

Blockchain technology is still at its very beginning, we are still to develop real-world applications on the blockchain. I'm curious how the blockchain adoption will affect the use of Bitcoin (https://coincodex.com/crypto/bitcoin/) and its price.

You are still considered as an early adopter even if you join today because the adoption stage today wasn't even reach 25% of the total population in the world. Even if you survey your friends and people you know, you will realize that we are still far.

we are in the era we use bitcoin at the beginning and i think we still be the early adopters, like until next 5 years and more, and i think it will change after we can use bitcoin for everyday and for daily use

Quite possible. We are the ones who use the cryptocurrency and digital money on a very antiquated level. In fact, we are like cavemen for those who will use cryptocurrency in 10-20 years. It will be a completely different level, with different speeds and commissions. Would rather have it the future is now! I think Fiat money will go into the past in 5-6 years is very likely.

Definitely early Adopters . The ones who will be not are the ones who will join crypto when it will have like trillions of marketcap , if that will happen ever =D The ones that joined lets say 2008-2010 , most of them already probably sold on 10-100$ range and then entered again around 200-1000$ range . I dont believe there is alot of people who still hold it from 2008 =D

I agree, strange growth. On the account and strongly - probably unlikely. Personally, I'm more inclined to forecast a rollback to 1500. At least that seems like a more realistic price to pay today.

I don't think we can be classified as the early adopters of Bitcoin but those who accepted Bitcoin in the beginning (2009) when it was introduced can be called the early adopters. Even though more people are now learning about crypto, there is still a long way to go.

Do you mean that bitcoin in the next 10 years will be cheaper compared to current prices? Will bitcoin last for another 10 years ... Only time can answer it.

Imagination will be correct or wrong you could not understand from now. 2009 was starting time when bitcoin popular and price growing super speed.
I didn't think it will comparable in 2009, this is past so this moment will not coming after 10 years if i imagine now.

i think if bitcoin can overcome obstacles to its development, it will be bigger in the next 10 years. of course that is what we hope for. but indeed within a period of 10 years, it has not been able to replace the fiat currency

I think those people who started with a bitcoin in 2009 are early adopters. The later generation of the bitcoin traders and miners became mainstream. Nowadays even teenagers now what is bitcoin. Everybody wants to try it.

Opportunity comes but once, no matter the amount anyone invest now it can not be compare to those that bought bitcoin 9 years ago. This is a lesson to those that are still living in doubt over the efficacy of bitcoin.

it's not only a matter of price.
We are early adopter simply because bitcoin there are still few people that have bitcoin.

When, in 10 years, blockchain will have mass adoption, you will realize how much we are early adopter even in 2018.

Yes, we are still in the early adoption stage.  The total marketcap of al cryptocurrency is only 200 billion dollars.  That is stupidly small compared to how much fiat currency their currently is.  There is over 10 trillion USD in circulation alone.  The crypto market will grow over 10 fold and reach a marketcap in the trillions.   The best time to buy is always yesterday but people are still hesitant to jump in.

We have not even reached 1% and I have my doubts we have even reached 0.1% of the human population and when you see those numbers and the huge potential of bitcoin then it is no odd to think of us also as early investors, what it happens is that the level of adoption we are expecting has not happened yet but there are high chances it will eventually happen.

A good number of people already know about bitcoin, but the total percentage of people using/owning bitcoin worldwide is still very small I don't have the numbers to back this up, but I'm quite sure about this). We are early adopters, assuming that bitcoin will be successful in the end. Always take note of that- even though I'm extremely bullish on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, the chance of these succeeding is not 100%. That's why it's always advised to speculate or 'invest' wisely.

Yes we are early adopters of bitcoin and we feel proud for it

yes, we are still new users but there are so many people who doesnt know about crypto at all

We aren't early adapters at least those who joined recently as the bitcoin have already rose to such high prices and is still at the same level from many months that it seems impossible for bitcoin to go to more high prices in the future. And if you compare the returns provided by bitcoin to those who invested in 2009 till 2017 is way higher than it will ever provide to those who have just joined bitcoin and 10 years from now, so the people joining recently aren't early adapters or investors.

Maybe in 100 years the ones who join in the first 10 years become early adopters, but if you join today you can't call yourself an early adopter.

We can't predict bitcoin's future, but maybe one day each coin will cost $1Million, so, for the ones who buy at $6.5k today would feel like early adopters for sure.

Yes for certain. I mean even if you are in the first 2-3% of users you must be considered as an early adopter. I would doubt we are even near that yet for real investors.

I don't know for sure but in my opinion, we are early adopters now! it seems to me that we really are still at the moment and i don't know whether this will change ever but is this bad?

For sure. We are all pre-blockchain version of Netscape (there hasn't been any single app or chain that has ushered in mass adoption). So yeah, definitely early adopters.

That's the vast majority of people. Like 90%. Maybe more. We're all in a bubble of crypto-enthusiasts, and assume it's the same across the general population, but it's not ;)

I think that the real success of bitcoin as a currency and as an investment and the technology as a whole will not happen today, but in a few years. And the further it develops, the stronger it becomes. Therefore, we can say that we are seeing the very beginning of the bitcoin path, its origin and formation.

We are somewhere off of that chart on the extreme right.

If any of you were early adopters you wouldn’t be posting here anymore.

This period is when bitcoin is about to be known globally. Comparing 2009 and now you will know that bitcoin is more popular now than in the year of inception. So we that are in bitcoin now are early and privilege adopters and  if we know what we are doing within the next ten years from now and bitcoin surviving the current government onslaught definitely we will be rich and doing well. The key here if for bitcoin to survive and we the early adopters doing well with the information we have.

If there are some new coins and we immediately buy it, then we will be the early adopters of the coin.
But if we buy bitcoin now, we are not early adopters anymore because bitcoin early year has been passed.
However if you want to be an early adopter, you need to find a new coin which have awesome project and buy it.

Probably, and hopefully yes, 10 years later we will be those, who were here, and who believed in this whole "crypto thing" way before everybody else. It may look like, there are a lot of crypto enthusiasts now, but it could be so much more.

Yes, bro, I think also we are an early adopter as you see bitcoin have only reached its one decade. But most of the country is not recognized bitcoin yet. Form the little experience I can imagine after 10 years from now we will be more experienced and profitable holder.

Right now? No. In the future? Maybe. Us being early adopter depends on how long will Bitcoin be alive, if it dies next year or soon (I'm sure it wont), we are pretty much newbies. If it stays alive for 20 years or more from now, we would pretty much be veterans. For now, users who joined a year or two ago are pretty much new to Bitcoin.

I still think we are early adopters, I have a friend who were doing all his life as a freelancer working on upwork since 2009, but never tried to user btc or any 0ther crpto for investment. I tried to ask why he replied because he knows nothing about it and hard to understand he added. And I thought to myseelf these kind of guys are the ones that doesn't adapt to environment.

in order for freelancers to be able to use bitcoin to pay, employers need to be able and willing to pay legally with bitcoin.

You are right I think we are still in early adopter of bitcoin but the adoption of bitcoin in 2009 is quite different from now because there are more people coming in compare to before......  But we are Still in early adopter because people who knows about bitcoin are less than the ones who don't know.

People are still going to refer to you as the early adopter of bitcoin because the price of bitcoin will go up again and only the  early adopters will benefit most because at the new high price, only few people will be able to buy one bitcoin.

I think we can not called as early adopter. I think early adopter is people who use bitcoin at 2009-2014 when not much merchant accept bitcoin. Right now, many country already allowing bitcoin as payment in merchant

Bitcoin has many adoptors compared those last few years,yes it totally come to a point that it already reach to 10 years of its existence and bitcoin had earned more influence to those businessman around the globe..but as we all know the percentage of users,investors,merchants and holders was just a little percentage compared to the worlds population.

We are still early adopters of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency because the technology is still young and unknown to most part of the world. In the next 10 years, cryptocurrency will be known on every corner of the world as the people gradually become familiar with it through shared knowledge and awareness creation. The demand will increase significantly at that time which will eventually lead to an increase in the market value.

for bitcoin to be used even more, it is necessary for governments to accept payment of taxes and fees in bitcoin, then employers will start using it to pay salaries.

this is the middle phase, where there will be a lot of people doing SCAM so that they all don't think about what reputation is, and then when this virus spreads to whales, then everyone will destroy the existence of cryptocurrency. be careful in this phase, because early adopters are people who believe bitcoin will be big, always talked about by anyone and he is accused of being crazy

consider we are second to earlier adopters. now is the era where everyone trying to get a piece from crypto. many trial and error, experiments, scam and unregulated trade. its a young child just got in to kindergarten.

I think yes, we are  still early adopters  bitcoin in the cryto world. Many people have knowledge about it but still they don't engage on it. Maybe bitcoin must have to proved their existence in this new era.

I agree to the majority who replies here that we are still early adopters of this mainstream technology. In our country, still only few hold and invest cryptocurrency, some aware of its existence but still didn't know how it works and how it is promising to invest here. Sooner, when government and other countries would stop banning threat and fully adopt Bitcoin, then early adopters of this technology would earn potential profit.

as early investors in bitcoin, we have become knowledgeable about the new technology. then it depends on us how we apply our knowledge. bitcoin is universal, it can be used in different directions and not only as an investment, but simply as a coin for mutual settlements. knowledge is power.

We are near to early adopters, as most people joined in 2017 during the bull run. The cycles now are quite fast compared to gold and other assets. So yes, we can be counted as early adopters. Only 3rd cycle in on the way.

I think we are only in the early stages of bitcoin as it is just starting, the road is long and there will be many interesting things going on.

even though it has been running for several years we are still in the early stages, we can see that countries that legalize bitcoin are still small, it takes longer for the development of bitcoin to become the currency that will be used in many countries in the future

Yes, I think that we are still early investors in such a young and promising cryptocurrency market

I will probably agree with you. Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies just start their way. We learn how to deal with them. Therefore, even the guys who work with the crypto for many years are the early adopters.

I think that those who are now in this industry will be very successful in 10 years if they actively study the blockchain. It is definitely impossible to compare with 2009 because then only few people believed in it and now they set the rules

It is true that we are considered as early investors because there a so many individuals who have not come to know what bitcoin is all about and these once are yet to know what bitcoin is all about.

I do not think that we are in the Early Adopters. But there are many people who do not believe Bitcoin as a currency. Their belief in Bitcoin can not be made. Because of which crypto currency is not able to make its place which the national currency has Have been created.

Bitcoin has reached ten years of existence, yet I think we are still in the early stage compare to where bitcoin is going and where it will be in another twenty years. So this present time may still feel like the early stage by then.

Like stock, Bitcoin as a limited-quantity dividend can not generate more. It may have existed for 10 years, but it still needs to go through many challenges and difficulties to be able to get better. I believe that in the next 20 years no one knows the stock because people move through Bitcoin.

In 10 years, I assume that bitcoin is already popular to the world and since we take part of this industry right now or even before, we are early adopters of it. Cryptocurrency is still young and many changes will undergo from it. I know that many researches will conduct so that it may become part of everyday lives. Cryptocurrency will be the trend for the future because its usage is clear and helpful for all of us.

Well, maybe if the value will continue to increase. Comparing to how it was since the beginning, of course a lot has changed but if 10 years from now bitcoin price will be 10-100x of its price right now, maybe you are right, we are early adopters.

I definitely agree. If we are the early users of btc and other altcoins yes we are the early adopters. I've used btc in some unique ways possible since it got its spotlight. But to me its more of the initial ones to believe that will be remembered.

yes we still are. think of the time when facebook rolled around. we are still too early

If likened, bitcoin is a small child who has a high IQ, since he was born in 2009 he has been able to answer all the shortcomings that occur in conventional currencies. Bitcoin is transparent, and each user can control their own money and allow them to store it themselves in digital format.

Bitcoin may be a more appropriate medium for Finance and Banking (rather than currencies supported by central banks that tend to be more and more perverted by corrupt officials), especially for people who don't have bank accounts, and small-scale trade between nations.

If all countries use bitcoin, I think this's very good, because by using bitcoin as a state financial media, surely every country that uses it will be spared from corrupt practices of its officials, and this at least greatly helps their country's economy, as time goes on.

I think that we are still early adopters. With time everyone will understand that btc and other digital coins are the best way to earn money and use it as the payment method. To my mind, digital currency is the best

Many people still interested to bitcoin, the adoption still gtowing, own many bitcoin at this stage will give us so many profit in the future. I can earn so many bitcoin when it's price still $200 but when the price reach $7000 it's a bit harder to reach the same amount, we can imagine how worth is every single Sathosi in the future.

really your opinion, bitcoin is not yet familiar in various regions but if we see the developments that occur lately shows the interest of business people in various countries to use bitcoin in each of their business transactions, chances are in the future it is still uncertain but better we are for positive thinking that there will be a big change in the future, if we have excess money infestation in bitcoin can be an attractive choice ..

Yes i think because bitcoin is still new to most people, awareness and adoption will increase gradually until everyone in the world knows about bitcoin. We still need many years for people to understand and accept the use case of bitcoin and how it can help to uplift the life of a human being.

If in next 10 years, market cap value reach trillion dollar, i am believe people who buying bitcoin or other coin will gain big profits in the future. Maybe people in next 10 years will call us as early adopter

i think already more members are known about bitcoin but still some people are didn't know about bitcoin in all over world.

I believed that we are in more better than what those 2009 adaptors has,because these days are more popularity and advertisements for cryptocurrency not like when this was started 10 years earlier

If this value brings them $20,000 we are in advantageous because what we are waiting is hundred of thousands or more than that.

So yes we are still early adoptors

Yes you're right. Still few people doesn't know cryptocurrencies and even newbie they know what bitcoin is but they don't know the real purpose why bitcoin is still existed in the virtual world. So all we need to is to raise awareness about cryptocurrencies for the to understand about the features and what bitcoin and crypto really is.

I think this is only the first stage of Bitcoin, it will grow more and more people who are taking this opportunity have the potential to become Smart Investors in the future.

Due to market is going down till in these days. Maybe in future  lot of people want early adopter in future.

I think after last year's bull run we are definitely past the inflection point of early adoption. At this point, it is about surpassing the period of disillusionment, and the cycle will continue. I think once the Blockchain realizes more applications in governments and businesses is when we'll see all cryptocurrencies prosper.

All very quickly is changing ,every day, that already to talk about decade)Think that this will be absolutely not comparable with 2009)Yes and with other years, too,.The current situation in the market in General to me is very frightening.I am generally optimistic in life.But even here I'm beginning to doubt.But hope as they say springs eternal.Therefore, I hope that in ten years we will talk about 2018 as the most crisis)))

10 years it's quite an age so we can't be called early adopters. bitcoin is maturing so we are in the teen ages of bitcoin right now.

Unfortunately not. Early adopters were 3-4 years ago at least.

Don't expect it to be your easy ride to riches.
Having said that, if you are a long term investor you have a good chance to make some money
I personally would just buy some BTC and some ETH and hold for a few years

If you're looking short term, very difficult to make money, likely to get burned

If you have to ask then you’re not an early adopter.

If you are reading this thread, consider yourself lucky because you are an early adapter. I think.

I'm not completely agree...

Probalby people in 2011 asked the same question

Yeah obviously we are still early adopters. now I taught about 10 years later scenario. I think After 10 years bitcoin price will be 300000-500000 dollar that time we realize we were really early adaptors.

What's even the time when it started gaining popularity? And if it all started in 2011 but not many people were involved can't it be argued that even now people starting to get into blockchain and crypto are early adopters... Not that many years as passed, but now it's highly popular, yet the majority still can't get their head around the topic.

I think that yes, because now we see how cryptocurrency technologies open up new opportunities and we can cognize and learn them and use them for our own needs. For example, I have been in this field for a very long time, but I seriously began to practice cryptocurrency only a couple of years ago. Until the cryptocurrency comes to the maximum level, if cryptocurrency has such a level, then up to this point we will all be early adopters.

Truth: We are still in early adoption phase

But in reality 'Only time can tell'

yes, now imagine the whole world using bitcoin in the future.

Hello, yes we are still very early. The roads are still being build. Its is even up to debate which roads we are building. a lot of people experiment in a lot of different directions
So exciting

Cheers

Come on dude, seriously? None of us in 2011 asked if we were early adopters because we knew we were. We were the ones brainstorming trying to figure out how to get people to adopt bitcoin. I’m an early adopter. I mined with a cpu, but made most of my coin mining with cheap video cards and was earning whole bitcoins. Today mining for individuals is all but dead. When individuals do mine they need to buy expensive specialized equipment and earn micro fractions of a bitcoin.

Yes we are still among the early adopter's of bitcoin and cryptocurrency,  since we are still among the first percentage of the world that have hard and using cryptocurrency to carry out transactions and payments. We should consider our self's as the real benefactors of bitcoin because we are at advantage compared to those who will come into it when the price might have gone high.

You could make an analogy with the computer. They appeared in the 60-70, but they only became mainstream after the dot com bubble. It took them 30 years to take the world by storm and now they are mostly ubiquitous. I think it's a similar story with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It will take another 10-20 years for the technology to mature and become easy to use. So yeah, we are still in the early adoption phase.

As at this time,  we are a decade into bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. I will say yes we are still early adopters but adopters to me is in stages because some people got to know bitcoin at 2$ and even below or higher.  Adoption is a matter of occurence, circumstance,  and personal believe with research.  So yes we are still early adopters. 

I think we're early adopters for sure!
Next step would be "early majority" but up to now only a few % owns coins - that's a minority!

Good times ahead !

Everybody can be early adopters. The true early adopters are those who have bought and kept their BTC at a very cheap price. Is $5k-6k range of BTC price cheap for you? If you would consider the future value, it does not exist yet and nobody knows what it brings. All we can do is buy it, keep it, forget about it for the longest time, wait for the shocking news when BTC hits the mainstream news.

I think Crypto even has not joined the real adoption phase, because adoption means much more users than we see now, and the use cases of Crypto are limited only to speculation and payments, so to get adoption, we need more valid products. Financially, The market cap of all Crypto currencies is still very low in comparision with other assets, that means the potential growth is high considering the overwhelming interest in Crypto assets investments.

i will say we are early adopters as bitcoin is still young and not much persons compared to the total population of the world has adopted the use of bitcoin and blockchain.

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That’s a really nice one! But if to talk seriously I am sure there are left ones, especially the ones that did not buy their pizza for 20000 BTC :) Truly thinking a lot of BTCs were found in old pcs and on old HDDs.

Of course, we are still very young persons in here (independently from our age) but i think that this is still pretty new.

Remember than when Gold started to be something "new" only the believers were the ones that got in early, and all the others thought that it wasn't something valuable (more than thousands of years ago)

I don't think that we can call ourselves "Early adopters". Right now there are more than 100 million users of the crypto-currency and this number represents close to 2% of those who use fiat currency. Bitcoin is no longer some unknown digital product. Most of the computer literate individuals have heard about it.

For me yes! The cryptocurrency market is not yet popular all over the world! I am really sure that we can considered ourselves as early adopters. There are many opportunities and advantages that we can get because in making investment at early stage.

We never know the development of bicoin prices for the future, whether it can be as high as 2017 or just go up a little. So when we buy at the current price between USD 3,000 and USD 4,000, we just wait for the increase that is expected to be profitable.

Yes we are still early adopters of this new technology I call it new because there are still many people and government who are ignorant on how this technology works, this is still in the early stage and we need to spread the news about Cryptocurrency and blockchain, just like what happen to internet.

I think that we are still early adopters. Because the crypto world has been developing for only 10 years. And what is 10 years for the development of such an industry that is so difficult for most to understand? Yes, some people have already figured out the technology and invested their money in cryptocurrency. But this is just a small part of the people. I think that in 30-50 years everyone will agree that those who invested in the first 10-15 years were early adopters.

If we take into consideration the amount of people using cryptocurencies now, then yes we are defintely early adopters , we are like in 1% of finacially active people.
The question remains what the future hold for blockchian and if we really will use it as means of money payments.

Yes, there is no doubt we are Early Adopters.  Much like the first people who bought cars over a hundred years ago, or used printing presses instead of scribes, or the Internet instead of newspapers, and on and on.

If we take into account the fact that bitcoin has very great prospects for future development, then we can really be attributed to early receivers. And I like to be involved in this story, because I really want us and our children and grandchildren to use this unique technology.

Quite. And the main thing that it was expressed and in the monetary relation and the price will be much higher than today's. And in my old age I will be really proud of the fact that I risked investing in bitcoin back in 2017.

Of course, lots of things have changed since 2009 - from the speed of IT technologies development to various range of usability. However, I believe that we still have lots of features to be involved.

Yes - with focus on mining we're advanced but in terms of "using" crypto (paying or usage of blockchain in realworld cases) we're in early phase.

I think it's free you want to say anything, because there are no special conditions and characteristics that cause you are early adopters or not, but my opinion before bitcoin becomes mainstream then we are still an early adopter, because we are experience a difficult time of bitcoin

I would say yes, because bitcoin is still at its early stage and it's not yet widely adopted.
This is our chance to invest while it's not that popular yet, to make money in the future is our goal and this is gonna happen because adoption will just continue. Bitcoin is already getting the attention of the government and big institution, it's a sign that we are going to be successful.

Of course yes, in fact cryptocurrency hasn't started yet this is just an introduction, bitcoin has a very long way to go, I'm looking at cryptocurrency in 10_20years to come

I think the real early adopters are really those who first saw bitcoin from $0 to $1,000.
I hope they've all benefited from the 1st wave.

The 2nd wave are those who saw BTC from $1,000 to $20,000.

I think whose who joined last 2017 until today will be part of the 3rd wave.

Well, maybe Mid-Adopters. We will find a new term, when it will be necessary.

We are definitely at early stages... World is huge, and 95%+ percent of the world population does not know absolutely nothing about Bitcoin or blockchain per se.

I think so, because it is just ten years already of Bitcoin existence. Bitcoin is only recognized by a little percents of total number of human populations in the world. There are only a small community of people recognizing bitcoin.

10 years of the crypto market have already passed away .Though there are lot of obstacles are still to cross besides it Digital Currency has made its relevance in various fields  and people are ready to adopt it . Several issues like ETF approval ,adoption by mutual funds, future and options are still to be resolved and after adoption it will take time to mature , so certainly we can say that crypto is in infancy stage and after attaining maturity it will show the way to the whole world and there will be not a single house left when everyone will be using digital currency in their day to day life .People entered in this market now will be at advantages position.

Probably not, I really do not think that bitcoin is going to go through the same growth, but not everything is bad news, bitcoin is still going to grow in price and adoption so even if we are not early adopters we are part of the next stage of the adoption of bitcoin, just make sure to keep your coins and avoid spending your bitcoins in stuff that doesn't benefit you or that doesn't bring you profits or you will probably regret it.

The answer is how the crypto will perform as a whole
and how will it complete its way to the end?
I think encryption is now a reality
It is the future
That is why I answered yes we are "early adopters"

Not really. Early adopters are the ones who have bought Btc before 2016 when price has raised significantly.

If we compare ourselves with people who will buy Btc in 2025 we might be seen as early adopters, too. 😊

How can you know at which point of the adoption curve we are? This market cap could look to you like something big but we could be in the beginning. How do you think 2013 prices looked like to someone who just got to know Bitcoin? He'd say people who got in before 2012 when it was cheap were the early adopters now it went up 900% it's already over.
We could still be early adopters and the end price of Bitcoin is probably higher than 50000 dollars.

This is an interesting thing to think about. I believe that  the earlier Bitcoin believer understood the principle and purpose behind the creation of it. They didn't join the Bitcoin ecosystem just because of the profit they could make from it. They easily understood Bitcoin and started using it. Looking at now, a lot of people join the Bitcoin space with the Basic idea of becoming rich within a few time. They basically don't understand the purpose behind the use of Bitcoin.

As long as the price are so volatility as it is now, we can easily see us self as early adaptors.  Blockchain are now being thought about in many business and productions lines.  So in ten years many everyday communities will most likely be on a blockchain.
If crypto and Bitcoins prove itself as a secure and fast way to send money then more and more people will start to buy Bitcoin and that will make the current holders of Bitcoins early adaptors in 10 years.

Everyone would be thankful if the price will increase and they will become profitable.

Those who come in and buy at a higher price would wish that they were here when price was still very cheap, I don't really appreciate people who only came here for the price and think this is just an investment that will make their rich quick, people who see the technology rather than the price will most likely to succeed.

I count myself as an early adopter and lucky despite the fact that I heard about btc early 2017 while it had been in existence since 2009 although I missed being involved earlier however 10 years to this time its adoption will be enormous and if care is not taken a lot of regret stories by dumpers who felt otherwise as far its price rocketing is concerned.

Likewise, I can say that we're still at the early stage and we can be considered as early adopters. I thought before that it was too late to invest to bitcoin when it was around 2014 - 2015 because the price was "expensive" in my perspective by that time.

But just look on how much it is right now, we're still good as new and the upcoming once can also still be said as an early adopter. But after 10 years, I don't think investors by that time can still be considered as an early adopter.

We are very lucky to get this opportunity and live in this 10 years of cryptocurrency field because Bitcoin will changes a lot of people's life to the different shape so the investors are really proud of being a Crypto user I also in that we hope it will be continuing a long time

Yes we are still very young adopters as the life span is still very long compare to what we just achieve in the industry and why the use of blockchain will still be very much good in future as a new was of life and then we are going to have it as a main use for every aspect of life so those that embrace the call now will be a very young adopter.

Ofcourse theres a double impact on this scenario ,first the opportunity of becoming millionaire is easily in this area as we have lots of aspiring investors whos just waiting for right timing 

Second is the popularity we are having now is too different from the past 10 years and more will be different from 10 years from now.so this advantages may take us to successful trading and investing if we will only trust and believe the cryptocurrencies

Early adopters is a concept used for people who have a minimum understanding of a new product or service and contribute to its development or sales in a direct or indirect way.
Now if we look at this, I believe there is an extremely narrow funnel of people who can actually call themselves early-adopters.

For example, I have been to one of the many Blockchain Summits, and came across some guys portraying themselves as blockchain specialists, only to learn later that they have "invested" around $100 in 4-5 altcoins. That's it.

This new industry is starving to get more educated people, who can make educated statements and not just "follow" or "share" stuff they see online. In this sense, the market if flooded with people who consume media similar to the conspicuous consumption trend in early 90' around the world, where the word "buy" was by far the sexiest thing on the market.

Are we still Early Adopters? Nah.

EarlyAdopter-involves a basic understanding and desire to see the market succeed, where the product or technology has a direct impact on a given problem or challenge.
Why do you think that 80% of ICOs turn out to be scams? Because it's very easy to see a product to person who has very limited understanding of the product or service. Basically, the lack of knowledge and the hunger for a quick buck is holding back the real development and expansion.

Ideas?

Stupid,why not even read the topic not just the title before putting your opinion?OP dont mentioned about bitcoin specifically instead he was asking about the future 10 years from now

Cryptocurrency is the future of technology in terms of transactions so for me we are looking the same scenario as what this market dos from 2009 till now,and for sure great innovation are coming soon as 2018 comes to end

I will go for a yes. Yes we are indeed still an early adopters why? because the fact that bitcoiners or the investors are still on doubt of its potential and the pending of the acceptance of the governments makes us an early adopters. The fact that people still not in favor of it and not using, promoting, and embracing it are the reasons why I say that it is still new to us.

This is a question of the length of the timeline. If your timeline is only 10 years, then we definitely can't count Early Adopters unless you started using Bitcoin from 2013, but if your timeline extends to 50 years. , then we are of course Early Adopters.

yes i also think that the next generation will easier accept Bitcoin .
Iam around 30 years old and in my generation not much using Bitcoin even nobody from my Friends.
The are born with Fiat ....but next generations also born with Crypto and Fiat.


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It depends of what time frames we talk about. Considering that cryptocurrency appeared about 10 years ago we are not early adopters. But what if it will exist for many decades? I this case we are pioneers.)

Well i think that we are still the Early Adopters of BTC because we haven't evolved so much and i think that in the future will appear much more opportunities for Bitcoin.I think that the next generations will take the crypto world to the next level, or at least i hope so.

I don’t think so. Bitcoin is 10 years old, i guess it has passed its first stage and now gone to, let's call it, the second one. So we are in the middle.