Many of those newborns become users of hyper-inflated fiat currencies that cannot last.

I doubt Bitcoin will become some national currency, many use the currency offline only, thats what fiat is for

Bitcoin is a waste of time.

It is only good for turning $ into more $.

Nobody is really interested in Bitcoins, everybody is only interested in making more $ through Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the only asset that has a gravitational pull to 0

We should also consider people who "convert"; there are very, very few atheists in this world who did not have a religious upbringing (which is one of the prime reasons people turn to atheism to begin with.)  At this stage, all generations of people are raised with their one nation's currency, and some have diversified their wealth elsewhere, such as stocks and PMs and whatnot.  However, there has never before been a real, long-lasting alternative to fiat; there has never been the atheism of money before, a money which occurs globally, and attracts users without requiring brainwashing by simply being better at what it's designed to do, without any central entity behind it.

So long as nations are still around, there will always be fiat currencies.  No nation is suicidal enough to adopt Bitcoin; this would completely remove the power that nation has over its people and place it in the hands of the individual.  That's exactly the opposite of the purpose of government.  Because fiat can be controlled and changed on a whim (remember when the dollar was backed by silver?  Why would any citizen ever want that changed?), it allows government simple and effective control over your wealth, and can even make themselves wealthier by cheapening their money, which, as we all know, they do.  On the other hand, with a currency like Bitcoin, which cannot be touched without the entire community deciding it should be touched, it becomes extremely difficult for a special interests group (for example, the tiny percent of the population in any given government) to shape the currency in the way they would like.  If there is such a thing as benevolent governance, then I will eat my words handed to me on a silver platter the moment a nation gives up its ability to print its own money in favor of Bitcoin.  I predict, nations (not the people, but its governments) will fight Bitcoin, unsuccessfully, to the very bitter end; all one must do to win such a battle is remain prudent.

Considering that bitcoin adoption require the technically illiterate part of the population to die out I wouldn't worry about the growth of population and the rate of adoption. Look at your elders, most of them doesn't have a clue how things work on "the internet". They cannot grasp the concepts of today, but it doesn't really matter. Even in england around 30% of the population doesn't use internet at all (google for statictics on this).

Also, the rate of adoption can be guessed but cannot be determined exactly -----> nobody has a clue.

People who are not interested in bitcoin don't care about money, mostly because they have not experienced the dark side of fiat money. The brighter people around me instantly acknowledge the bitcoin protocol even after a brief description of it.

Sorry, I had to post this in the very 1st post:


True, I have no exact numbers, but the chart clearly shows that number of bitcoiners grows slower.

Bitcoin has a very deep learning curve, it is not meant for average housewife, but with people's knowledge of IT growing each year, more and more people will understand it. Without understanding, it is difficult to let people trust something that is not backed by a powerful entity

It is much easier to pursuade housewives by building a 70 floor financial center in the middle of city than some youtube video

From what I am seeing on the chart bellow, I see a clear uptrend of bitcoin usage in the network

Adoption ~~ number of unique addresses, not the number of transactions.