IMO, bitcoin is the most powerful factor that put blickchain tech to mainstream. We all know that the blockchain was introduced long time before bitcoin.
Until now, cryptocurrencies (in general) are highlighting the utilities of this technology, but we still need to adopt it with more concepts in a large scale.
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This is also what I think, it's kinda blockchain more being famous or put it into mainstream is because of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency.
But I think it is much better to people not to think always as this, because blockchain has lot of different fields, not only in cryptocurrency.
It's kinda sad that when cryptocurrency getting more market cap and pumping, more people are being introduce in blockchain because of cryptocurrency, but it's kinda reality. We should also acknowledge and appreciate the innovation of it.