people are still excited about bitcoin, at least those of us who understand what bitcoin is meant to be like are excited about it.
besides in 2010-2011 it was more about the price and seeing bitcoin (as a new technology) grow and worth as much as 1 USD and then go up to a thousand times worth more than 1 USD, that was the most exciting part.

I'm still excited! But yeah the tone is different these days.

Those days, really miss the time were there was a hype of mining with GPU's and we used to post our modified computers that we used for mining (it was a lot more fun than mining now, as a whole). Aside from these it was on it's first few years and few only knew and when there was some group meetings, it was very exciting, specially when there was a speaker at events. In regards to being excited, it never went away and until now, every single day, I have that excitement like the first day, I get to know how cool BTCitcoin is. There's more hype now compared to around 2011 and more attention is given to it, specially from medias around the world.

Yeah right, because darkcoin was around in 2010-11... You probably mean the 2013 hype not the period in 2010-11.

The biggest reason that people are less excited is a stable period in the pricing of bitcoin. Stable = boring = less interest. The fact that we are stable around 400 for so long now is a good indicator though that we build a good solid floor there.

As far as being excited, I certainly am. Not only for bitcoin, but also all the cool projects it has inspired such as lisk and other 2.0 cryptos. They will have a spot besides bitcoin and fill the gaps that bitcoin has trouble with.

Back in 2014 the hype was about alts, I know there are legitimate projects revolving around crypto 2.0 still around nowadays but honestly, I'm all blockchain now. Way past the crypto 2.0 fever.

@ontopic boring doesn't necessarily means bad does it? The way I notice it, people look at BTCBTCBTC nowadays like a high yield high risk investment, not the freedom it was supposed to be.

in 2010/2011 Bitcoin was hardly known except by a small group of cryptographers, nerds and libertarians.
Bitcoin become exciting for many more people when it started to bubble!
After that the first companies were built and an economy started to grow and evolve which brought even more people into this space.
And I believe this excitement is still going on.
I'm really curious about the coming implementations and how future layers like LN for instance will and can help Bitcoin to get even more attention.

Yeah bitcoin should be not just about how much price can be reached, more likely to revolution of economy world. But recently most people think bitcoin just for investments that would earn you money.
Today and the next days should be more excited, bitcoin could change the way people use money.

bitcoin in 2011 is really phenomenal, the price is very very high, but it is harder to mine and then at that time the adaptation of bitcoin is still very new, you cant find any store that accept bitcoin, and very few people recognize bitcoin

so eventhough bitcoin was very exciting in 2011 but the usage and implementation is better in 2016

correct me if i am wrong but wasn't the bitcoin price high on 2013?

edit: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#permalinkbox
price @2011 was $6 max lol
and $1100 @2013-11

What changed these days? The essence is still the same... The only difference is, more people come because money. But they soon realize what's this all about. People learn about Bitcoin and start looking around differently and see that they were blindfolded all their life and their financial freedom was nothing but an illusion. People see that banks were pretty much getting ready for the long con...

We still want to set people free. Free from financial restrains and free from scams.

I am still as excited about Bitcoin as I was around 3/4 years ago when I first heard about Bitcoin.