Thread by @cburniske

1/ In the last bear market, telling someone you worked in the #bitcoin industry still drew blank stares.

In this bear market, telling someone you work in #crypto elicits some kind of reaction, good or bad.

2/ And so while #crypto is no longer the darling of mainstream conversation (leading to the observation below👇), it nonetheless lays latent in the majority's mind.

https://twitter.com/cburniske/status/1081620880566833157

3/ When I get into deeper discussions about #crypto with people not from the industry, I'm finding myself pleasantly surprised at how often it's assumed to be an inevitable "next big thing."

4/ Interestingly, even if someone doesn't like #crypto, they tend to concede how inevitable it feels. The ones that do like the concepts, often just don't know where to start.

5/ The "inevitable feeling" points to what @CarlotaPrzPerez describes as a "new default," which any major new technology must achieve on the path to broad deployment.

6/ So yes, the tech is still early & we have a long ways to go. But the way in which the ideas are lingering in peoples' minds is a great long-term indicator for #crypto.