How do you define "early adopters"?

[Frost]

Who is an early adopter in your opinion? How do you define it?

[Minecache]

2009-2012. Early adopters
2013-present. Late adopters.

[redhack]

Anybody who bought Bitcoin less than 100$ is early adopter to me. It doesn't matter what year he bought.

[NorrisK]

We are stil early adopters.. The masses still have not discovered and embraced bitocin, therefore, we are still within the first 1% to discover bitcoin.

Yes, we may have missed the massive price rise from cents to hundreds of dollars, but we are still far from the endgame. Once the masses embrace bitcoin, we will all be called early adopters.

[a7mos]

In my opinion, early adopter is someone who knows bitcoin when it was able to be mined with a CPU.
That time when the difficulty was much less than nowadays

[Karartma1]

We are stil early adopters.. The masses still have not discovered and embraced bitocin, therefore, we are still within the first 1% to discover bitcoin.

Yes, we may have missed the massive price rise from cents to hundreds of dollars, but we are still far from the endgame. Once the masses embrace bitcoin, we will all be called early adopters.

An early adopter is one who has mined coins with his laptop/desktop when cpu  mining was stil enough and when the reward was 50 BTC per block. Like it or not we are not early adopters anymore.

[saturn643]

I consider the super early adopters to be people who were around up to the end of the GPU mining era, so mid 2013, just before the price went really high. As NorrisK said, we are all still early adopters, Bitcoin is still young and those of us here now are still a part of a niche market and a special group of people. The late adopters won't come until Bitcoin goes mainstream.

2009-2013: Super early adopters
2013-present: early adopters
When BTC goes mainstream (2020?) and later: late adopters.

[vpitcher07]

I'd say if you own / use BTC today you are an early adopter. BTC is still in its infancy.

[Graphics]

Of course the people who is willing to take a risk, when everyone else thinks they're crazy.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

My take on this is that the definition of "early adopter" is going to change as time goes on.  In 30 years, we/they'll probably consider someone who was using btc in 2015 to be an early adopter (if btc is still being used).  I think it's way too early to define this though.

[redhack]

I consider the super early adopters to be people who were around up to the end of the GPU mining era, so mid 2013, just before the price went really high. As NorrisK said, we are all still early adopters, Bitcoin is still young and those of us here now are still a part of a niche market and a special group of people. The late adopters won't come until Bitcoin goes mainstream.

2009-2013: Super early adopters
2013-present: early adopters
When BTC goes mainstream (2020?) and later: late adopters.

Oh, that logic. So people who bought at 1000$ in November 2013 are early adopters? That's crazy to think about.

[calkob]

2009-2012. Early adopters
2013-present. Late adopters.

I think you might look back on this in 5 years and say opps maybe  i got that one wrong....   even those who bought in during the 2013 rise where actually early adopters.  most off those i know who bought in during the last couple years have been into bitcoin for years before they bought.

 If you ask andreas antonopoulous he said on the joe rogan interview (and i tend to agree, that those in bitcoin now arnt even the early adopters, "we are the lunatic fringe"  ).  Think about it most off us are sticking vast amounts of money into something that most people think wont be around in 6 months never mind 60 years.....lol  we do it because we believe in the technology.

 To me early adopter are going to be those who buy in once all the banks and financial institutions come on board, once they start promoting it then people will start to join in because they believe it will be safe.

but to say that those who bought in during 2013 are late adopters is just crazy, most people in the world haven't got a clue about bitcoin what are they going to be called in 10 years ancient adopters, 

 

[European Central Bank]

We are all still early adopters. Anyone who thinks otherwise has a perspective problem. People who were around before 2013 were pioneers.

[KenR]

In my opinion, early adopter is someone who knows bitcoin when it was able to be mined with a CPU.
That time when the difficulty was much less than nowadays

It is still mineable with a CPU, but the mined bitcoins would be worth nothing. Early adopters are the ones that were been able to find blocks with their CPU every few hours.

I consider the super early adopters to be people who were around up to the end of the GPU mining era, so mid 2013, just before the price went really high. As NorrisK said, we are all still early adopters, Bitcoin is still young and those of us here now are still a part of a niche market and a special group of people. The late adopters won't come until Bitcoin goes mainstream.

2009-2013: Super early adopters
2013-present: early adopters
When BTC goes mainstream (2020?) and later: late adopters.

Oh, that logic. So people who bought at 1000$ in November 2013 are early adopters? That's crazy to think about.

This is a currency. You never know what will happen when everyone knows about bitcoin. Gold had the same situation - when people started using it, it was worth very, very much.
Lets hope that bitcoin will someday be priceless

[megatron1337]

Alot of people I mention bitcoin to have no idea what it is... I feel as if we need some sort of team of leaders in order to take Bitcoin to the next level

[NorrisK]

We are stil early adopters.. The masses still have not discovered and embraced bitocin, therefore, we are still within the first 1% to discover bitcoin.

Yes, we may have missed the massive price rise from cents to hundreds of dollars, but we are still far from the endgame. Once the masses embrace bitcoin, we will all be called early adopters.

An early adopter is one who has mined coins with his laptop/desktop when cpu  mining was stil enough and when the reward was 50 BTC per block. Like it or not we are not early adopters anymore.

Don't agree with you here. What you are describing are the pioneers. The ones that saw the potential and took the risk. Early adopters copme after that and has nothing to do with the time frame, but all to do with the amount of the populations that has adopted something.

According to this image, we are even still innovators, as early adopters come in to play only after the first 2,5% of the population.

[gentlemand]

When there are still certain countries with only one or two Bitcoins ATMs, that hints to me that we've yet to reach the early adopter phase.

[countryfree]

Early adopters were the people who mined BTC with their home computers, when it was possible. So that was before the arms race began with the invention of Asic computers and guys creating BTC farms in China. Before 2012?

I jumped in in early 2013, so I'm not an early adopter.

[justspare]

I think that anyone who used Bitcoin from around 2010, up until now, are all early adopters. Bitcoin is still in its developing stages. Look at something like gold, it has been around for sooo long. Bitcoin has only been around for 7 years.

[justspare]

Early adopters were the people who mined BTC with their home computers, when it was possible. So that was before the arms race began with the invention of Asic computers and guys creating BTC farms in China. Before 2012?

I jumped in in early 2013, so I'm not an early adopter.

I think what you are describing, is the innovators of Bitcoin. They are the ones that really started Bitcoin up and took the risk of mining. The early adopters are the people that bought the Bitcoins around 2010.