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Five things you thought you knew about Cryptocurrencies
New technologies or new ideas, whether we’re talking about cars in the early twentieth century or mobile phones in the 2000s, tend to be adopted in five phases. Adoption starts with the Innovators (2.5% of the population), then the Early Adopters (an extra 13.5%), the Early Majority (at which point 50% of the population has adopted), the Late Majority and finally, the Laggards. Fads usually struggle to get past the Early Adoption stage. Recent studies suggest that the number of direct crypto users is well above half a billion now, meaning that crypto is easily in the second half of the Early Adopter phase, if not ... (full story)