Let's face the facts. The first 3 years of its history Bitcoin had been virtually unknown to a wider world, consistently reaching 50k transactions per day only by the end of 2012:
Before 2012, the number of transactions is even hard to estimate accurately. After 2012 and till now, the number of transactions has increased fivefold, and it took over 2 years to grow from 50k to just 100k (2013-mid 2015). Within the last 12 or so months this number increased over two times. Okay, Visa or Mastercard are most likely processing a lot more transactions (I don't really know by how much, so everyone is welcome to chime in on this), but what would happen to the Bitcoin network if the number of pending transactions all of sudden grew a dozen times? Would the network be able to process, say, 2,500k transactions daily? And a 250k city is by no means a tiny one, to be honest (I guess that over 90% of all cities around the world are less than that)...
Even if totally omitting that such an analogy is meaningless itself (like your other analogies)
That's a long time in cyberspace dude. Pokémon Go is six month old and has 26 million daily users. Within two years most social media sites (facebook, MySpace, etc.) had millions of users. Apple Pay is two years old and has 4 million users. AmazonPayments had over 2 million users the first year of operation. In 2012, a stock of about 17 million M-Pesa accounts had been registered in Kenya alone. That's after only 5 years in operation. In cyberspace 6 years is an eternity. Bitcoin is becoming the grandfather of online payment systems.
Are you serious about Pokémon Go and shit like that, mate? In half a year no one will give a fuck about that crap anymore (since new wacky crap will surely come about). I'm curious if you yourself really understand how skewed, distorted and biased your analogies are? What does a game have to do with a currency? On the other hand, Bitcoin is a decentralized payment processor of sorts, but there were quite a few other Internet payment processors already before it and most, if not all, had established companies backing them (Apple, Amazon, whatever)...
Bitcoin was born into tough competition with essentially nothing behind it
So you can't read past the first sentence of a post, huh? What does M-Pesa, AmazonPayments and Apple Pay have to do with Bitcoin? Um, let's see? Everything since they're younger than Bitcoin and overtaking Bitcoin's payment processor markets. Masses of businesses that used to accept Bitcoin have stopped taking Bitcoin because no one uses Bitcoin to shop there. Even Patrick Byrne from overstock.com, the huge supporter of businesses that accept Bitcoin, said he would eventually stop accepting Bitcoin when the final iteration of "virtual gold" is widespread.
