Love your thoughts here. Your analogy to the adoption of a black president in the U.S. is spot on. It took many years for common opinion to change. The interconnectedness of the internet is allowing that kind of change to happen even more rapidly today, which is why I agree with you that crypto will not take nearly as long to come into the mainstream.

I forsee a day where everyone has at least some crypto. It will become a natural part of investing. Anyone with any sort of investment portfolio will hold a small amount of BTC or another crypto.

As far as Steem adoption goes, I think the best way to get noobies on board is to not have them invest, which seems counterintuitve.

I've gotten a lot of friends onto Steem by simply telling them to use an app. I create an account for them, delegate 15-50 SP to the account (so they can transact) and then I just tell them to use 1 or more apps that fit their personality. Some have taken to this and really started to use the Steem blockchain. Over time, they naturally progress to the stage of saying "I want to buy STEEM to further fuel my activity here.

That's the magic of Steem, in my opinion. The fact that you can use this blockchain and enjoy the apps here without investing. We need to change the opinion to be that of using apps rather than investing and hoping to make money.

Awesome post, you've given me a lot to think about! 🔥