Another bad news for Bitcoin, especially because things were flourishing in Taiwan:

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-declared-illegal-in-taiwan/

If bitcoin ever goes mainstream I'm sure that following will happen:
- Price increase
- Many more people will buy BTC and use it
- Many merchants will accept BTC
- We will become reach
- My friends will be sorry because they rejected my offer to buy BTC on time

Bitcoin is programmed to become increasingly scarce every four years, via block reward halving.

Just that alone renders it a viable option for those looking for an effective store of value. Forget the day/weekly/monthly volatility. Short term volatility means nothing if the thing that you're trading has 'PROGRAMMED' restriction of issuance. 

LOl you are right.
Because i stepped in mid 2014, I feel I was not there when the bitcoin thingy happened. But in terms of early adopters I (we) are still early adaptors.

The potential of bitcoin is big and yes so would we (early) adopters benefit more then the people who join this party later.

Bitcoin will become mainstream, it's only a matter of time before it happens, even if banks start using only their own blockchains, it will only bring us more exposure.
It's hard to explain bitcoin now to people, and move them from fiat to crypto, but if they get familiar with it with banks blockchain, it would be much easier for them to cross to bitcoin.

I think OP meant mass adoption. So many common people will start using bitcoin, but also in terms of e-commerce so many webshops starts accepting bitcoin for payments in their shop.
Such a thing would give the bitcoinomy a serious boost.

In the OP I wrote about what I mean by "Bitcoin going mainstream".

After considering a few different criteria, I adopted the 10% of people using it. We are still very far from it.

There won't be any need of Bitcoin going mainstream to many bitcoiners get rich. Bitcoiners only need some more adoption.

The post is about the negative consequences of bitcoin going mainstream.

I think I all depends on how the average person adopts to it in my mind it is no different from using credit or debit cards I know fine well if I wanted to empty my bank accounts for hard currency I may have to wait a day or two to get it however almost everybody believes in banks and if everyone wanted to withdraw from their bank accounts it would not be possible. So for Bitcoin to go mainstream more and more reputable retailers would have to start adopting it as a form of currency

Fortunately for us, as long as engineering concerns regarding node and miner centralization are taken seriously by bitcoin developers, it cannot be externally controlled in the way that you say. However, that's why these issues are paramount in regards to the block size debate. It is critical that technological bottlenecks are respected to make sure that bitcoin's scale does not overtake its scalability. The death of bitcoin is one with centralized enough nodes that transactions can be censored, as one example.

While bitcoin will eventually go mainstream, i think this will take years and years still considering the increase of countries banning btc.
Notice that marketing a Bitcoin related website targeting common people on facebook will just be a waste as it would take time to explain from what is bitcoin than to what the site offers. people only have less than a minute of focus viewing an ad.