And back then all of the "experts" said pen computing was going to be the next big thing and used arguments like this one to beat down detractors.

Bitcoin's price will either go up, or it will go down. What Bill Gates said 30 years ago doesn't matter.

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Bitcoin is legal in the United States, and most other Western countries. What other countries are left?



 

The great difference between Bitcoin and the Internet is that Internet has enormous utility. The only utility of Bitcoin I can think of is the ability to act as a store of value(and a medium of exchange, but not many people are willing to pay with BTC every day).
Years ago, many crypto enthusiasts were confident that blockchain technology will be adopted in various different industries like healthcare, insurance, real estate, etc. Guess what, it didn't happen. Maybe the blockchain technology is simply a "glorified spreadsheet" just like the crypto haters keep saying.

The world first Bitcoin conference
Gavin Andresen talked about his opinion on Bitcoin Priorities. About this man, newbies can learn more about his contributions.

• Satoshi files: Gavin Andresen
• He run the first Bitcoin faucet
  
  • Get 5 free bitcoins from freebitcoins.appspot.com
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/
• He took over Bitcoin development after Satoshi's message that the founder will leave and move to other things soon.
• Gavin will visit the CIA to talk about Bitcoin

It is another good evidence of Bitcoin adoption over years. It has been grown very exponentially within 15 years since 2009.

Whilst I only think that these ETFs are significant because one is made actually for Bitcoin. But after analyzing and realizing why many people are having a different reaction than of those the ICO times, NFT days and meme coin craze. This is definitely like once in a lifetime moment for the entire community and Bitcoin itself. So with this reference, gold didn't have an etf but when it does, this what happened on it.




How much it will be with Bitcoin?  
Plus halving.

I have to agree with this, and I think I've already written it several times in similar topics - I think it's wrong to compare Bitcoin with the internet, even if it's an argument for some when it comes to putting in context the time it took for the internet to become something accessible to most people, with the same thing when it comes to Bitcoin.

I sincerely doubt that people will ever accept Bitcoin (especially as a currency) given that most governments in the world will never put Bitcoin ahead of their national currencies. If we exclude some countries with totalitarian-communist regimes, most of the free world has accepted the internet as something positive.

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It should not be forgotten that Gavin was one of those who in some way "protested" because of the way Satoshi made decisions and actually "demanded" to take over the matter. In those early days, Satoshi was not a favorite person and regardless of the reasons, he left because he no longer felt comfortable.

Besides, glorifying Gavin shouldn't be a one way street, this is the same guy who believed that CW Faketoshi was the real Satoshi. For someone who is supposedly very well versed in Bitcoin matters, it's really strange that he would fall for such a cheap trick.

First of all, as much as I love Bitcoin and I want it to always grow, I highly doubt this. The potential of the internet cannot be estimated. We've not even used half the potential of the internet.
Without Bitcoin, there will be the Internet, but without the Internet, there would be no Bitcoin. The impact of the internet would be felt in everything in every part of the world including Bitcoin.

Secondly, the reports of new papers (big or small) cannot be always relied on. Not every of their news should be believed.
It is expected that a newspaper should be against the internet because they fear it will put them out of business.  So if they say (millions of people are abandoning the internet), it may not not be completely true.

i agree with you that when bill gates first said that the internet would be booming in the next few years, people laughed at him, but seeing how the internet has become big now and almost all humans are dependent on it shows that how much the internet was underestimated at first has become very important now.

and that might happen to bitcoin, where many people underestimated it at first and thought that it was just an ordinary digital asset and would disappear in some time, but now it is big and will likely grow even more.

even though it is unstable for now, and people tend to see it as just a speculative asset, in the future it will probably be a digital asset that is traded and transacted by many people globally far more than now.

This proves the saying that History always repeats itself. whatever happened with the Internet is happened with Bitcoin.
I don't think it is right to compare early days of internet with the current time of bitcoin. but yeah Bitcoin also faced the same type of rejection and was trolled by many people in its early days.

But I don't agree that Bitcoin can make bigger impact than Internet. Internet is a very very huge thing. Bitcoin is built on internet and running with the help of internet. they are completely different things. regardless of that they are both great invention.

This is where Internet distinguishes. There wasn't an alternative to the Internet back in the 90s, just as there wasn't an alternative to electricity. I'm very supportive, but truth be told, Bitcoin is mostly money; and history is full of money alternatives. The bet is that these particular properties, like denationalization and state separation of monetary policy will distinguish on the long term.

(By "bet", I mean the best case scenario for bitcoin. Losing that bet does not mean it stops being peer-to-peer electronic cash.)