More or less almost the entire bitcoin ecosystem is quite good and has got almost every necessary things. As quoted Blockchain technology won't get vanished, little by little every one were adopting Blockchain technology into their business and in community activities. With the potential of the technology bitcoin have reached high, same will happen with the users preferring it as the earliest.

Simplicity. If we want to target both the young and the old people then simplicity should be the way to go. I and almost everyone of the forums understand how bitcoin works but no one can denies the fact that when someone new to the community would like to know more about bitcoin or understand how bitcoin works , he will definitely find it hard at the beginning . (I'm speaking about people with no programming or cryptography knowledge at all). I believe that the majority of people give up while trying to understand what bitcoin is really about and how It actually works.

I know that bitcoin is based on algorithms and stuff but I guess while explaining to someone else , we could explain it better (in a simpler way then we are doing it now) .

The media is another problem , where all they do is targeting bitcoin on how It's being used on drug dealing and funding terrorism . If you think that doesn't affect then you are wrong. The sooner they stop with their nonsense , the better it is.

Bitcoin ATMs.

Getting BTC should be as easy as going to the bank or ATM. Unfortunately here in the U.S. the big banks have made it almost impossible to become a legal "money transmitter".  This is being worked on, but can't come fast enough for me.    If bitcoin could be bought at an ATM then I think POS adoption would explode.

so.. you think adoption is easy to achieve?
bitcoin is growing, but that will not happen from day to night.

many noobs think the only way to get bitcoin is to:
* run a ponzi and scam people
* raid faucets
* signature campaigns

many noobs do not see the bitcoin economy in the real world outside of this forum.
this forum has become its own culdron of inner sanctuary. where people are just stirring things within the forum. trading, advertising, speculating, etc.

we need to expand peoples minds outside of this forum. to do some real world stuff.
EG
* real jobs paid in bitcoin.
* local conferences and meetups
* merchant adoption
* user friendly wallets (NFC/username) instead of public key/QR code

bitcoin can expand in many ways but it is starting to turn into segmented boysclubs like some ganglands where there are borders and fights if one side steps into another sides line.

each town/city should have its own 'information centre' for meetups/exchanges conferences and just general info.
each town/city should have some advocates that help raise awareness and help businesses start up by finding the right people for the right roles to help the economy grow.

my thoughts are that bitcoin is too much on this forum..
its turned into a circle jerk affair. to learn bitcoin you go to this forum, to start earning bitcoin you go to this forum, yes there are other places like reddit and other services. but this forum seems to have turned too inward and only stirring its own pot.

imagine this forum like an island. instead of getting the inhabitants to go out and explore the world, they are directing new people to the island and hope they stay in the island and trade on the island.

not much has been done since id say 2015 to get people to do some real world stuff.. all the stuff i have seen in the real world of 2016 looks like the same idea's of 2012-2014. when i was highly involved to getting the message out.

i have shot down many scammers and tried to look at business idea's people come up with. but lately all i see is demotivated culdron stiring  attempts of peoples gread of just trying to make money from eachother inside these forums. instead of expanding and exciting the real world.

it just seems like things have stagnated and just turned away from a 'revolutionary currency' and just into a who's got the biggest **** 'club'

new idea's only seem to end up being scams and anything to grow utility get pushed aside unless a banker paid dev is at the lead of designing it.

yes we need more concepts and utilities and less sheep following one direction that ends up just circling itself

There does seem to be very little promotion of Bitcoin and absolutely no mainstream advertisement for its use.

I would like to contribute to the ecosystem in someway - My feelings are that Bitcoin needs more facilitators, more social network type platforms that link people together with extra possibilities to use our digital tokens. The idea with Bitcoin is that each individual can interact with another, with a third party - but some platform to help facilitate this 'meeting of individuals'.

- A working hypothesis and maybe there are platforms on the way?

I am thinking along the lines of how the PayPal value transfer service became widely adopted because of the eBay platform.
And Steem has been distributed via the Steemit platform.

I get that only people already interested in Bitcoin are going to go onto a Bitcoin forum, but some other platform where the USP is more than just 'we use bitcoins' and other ways of interacting with other users is facilitated - an exchange Hub of some variety.

There is no perfect in anything on the virtual world at first but when time goes by, feedback from the users itself will contribute in perfecting this Bitcoin's EcoSystem that you said, that's why bitcointalk is here to hear the voice of the people in what is the missing link in ways to improve Bitcoin.

I think everyone underestimate how far bitcoin has come. You can buy it in thousands upon thousand of places all over the world. And it is not slowing down.  Its not where evreybody wants it but it is rocking.