Most people I've spoken about bitcoin to in real life think it's too risky (for them) to invest in, a scam or something criminals use.
That or they're too dumb or too scared to get involved in.
We need a lot more user adoption to really make some serious money.
Well geeze man, the way you said that does indeed make bitcoin look like some type of scam. Bitcoin, or any other crypto for that matter, really is not and shouldn't be considered a "get rich quick scheme". It's a experimental and revolutionary new form of money, and should be considered just an experiment. People will probably get very butt hurt if bitcoin goes down to below $100, or something like that, but the fact of the matter is that you are getting you're worthless Fed notes based on nothing, and switching them out for digitalized coins based on mathematics. Pretty cool if you ask me...
And sure, having the price sky rocket is a nice bonus... that just allows us to purchase more things with our bitcoins (at the few shops on the internet and even
fewer physical stores that accept them).
But just getting other people into bitcoin for the sake of having our stash accumulate more value in fiat makes it look like you're trying to get them into some kind of ponzi.