Yes, and that's one of the biggest problems blockchain technology has to face: Most applications are made for users with an IT background, and not for the average Jane or Joe whose skills are limited to logging on to their Facebook or Twitter accounts. This is probably the greatest barrier to mainstream adoption.

As an IT professional myself that's been working in the financial industry the last few years (card payments) I find cryptocurrencies very interesting, learning more and more every day and curious to see where it's going to be in the next few years. I started learning solidity and because I have experience programming I picked it up quite easily. There's still a lot of new concepts that one needs to get to grips with though.

Yep, of course! For example, i have my own project, and i really know, how i can do my small idea to global market,
and bitcoins helps me in it.
if i was not so professional in it, it will be very hard to understand, i haven't grow my idea...
So, bitcoin and it specialists - it is very good combination, that guy will earn good money

Your points are definetely right. But with a lot of naive users the percentage of stolen/'hacked' coins will rise heavily.
I honestly don't think we are ready yet for mass adoption.
Mobile wallets shouldn't be used to store 'big' amounts of crypto. While one could argue with only loading up balance for 1 or 2 days, this doesn't guarantees that people do not simply load up their whole wage on a mobile wallet.

Once the monthly wage is gone from a mobile wallet, those people will lose all trust into cryptos (even if their mobile is at fault).
A few of such cases would lead to a huge wave of criticism towards cryptos in general.

Mobile hardware wallets are a must for mass adoption. Wether a small smart card or a 'crypto chip' integrated into a mobile doesn't matter.
But convinience and security have to be combined in one device before people should starting doing all of their daily payments with BTC.

I don't know for sure but so far Bitcoin itself seems to have held up quite well when it comes to security but as I understand it
if a lightning wallet transmits an out of date transaction to the network then the banking hub can claim all the money in the
off-chain private ledger.

Thing is who do you call if it was not your fault and how can you compete against bankers rules since they have full access to the
protocol that won't be available to normal wallets.

Down the road I see the hubs being attacked if they start taking peoples wages and they are all single points of failure so looking at the
LN map https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ whats going to happen if one of these big hubs gets taken down by Annon

Really depends, if you wanna earn from coding than yes, if you wanna earn from promoting than no.

I see 3 big advantages IT professionals have in the Bitcoin world:

1. They can understand the background and get easier to believe that this is a good technology and a success. Together with the fact they do read the news, many got in early too.
2. I think that they can have a better chance to earn Bitcoin for the work they do (getting into Bitcoin is easier if you don't have to pay/buy). Also some may have become miners.
3. They can secure their funds better, having less change to get hacked and lost their funds.

Not really becauese there will be no difference between a programmer and an investor,because bitcoin's code wont be changed by anyone.Only those core developers would be able to change the codes of bitcoin.As an investor you wont need programming skills to take profits from the market,you will just need to have some technical analysis background to get those potential gains.

Definitely yes if they are open to the cryptocurrency. They have more advantage to us because they studied technology but some of the I.T. professionals doesn't believe in bitcoin but they believe in blockchain. It is still depend to them on how they will use the bitcoin. But most of the bitcoin users nowadays are not technology professionals, some of them are out of school youth. It still depend to a person on how he or she understand the flow of bitcoin.

true, the deep knowledge treasury with intelligence and professionalism is needed to reach the development of the future of criptocurrency, besides it is poured on the results of technology products that support so that the bitcoin travel path will be well controlled.