Thinking about why bitcoin adoption is slower than everyone would like, we may have underestimated the size of the adoption challenge (and reward).

People were slow to appreciate email, but it got adopted, and then VOIP came along and revolutionised Telecoms. Both of those were massive, but they are tiny compared to money. Money has been with us for hundreds of thousands of years, everybody uses it, even people who have never seen a telephone or the Web.

Example 1: What would it take for the UK to adopt the World practice of driving on the right? Answer: Too much, it's never happened and not likely to. It can't even agree on the same fiat currency as Europe.

Example 2: Why doesn't the US adopt the World metric system? Objectively it has several advantages, but the US is nowhere near making the change and not likely to. It doesn't even have a standard gallon or ton.

Money is several others of magnitude larger than either of those problems. It is all-pervasive. You can live without a telephone but you can't live without assets. Changing to bitcoin might be a trillion times more difficult than changing to metric, if you consider there are hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial instruments in the US alone!

Peer-to-peer finance and cross-border transfers are the merest pre-echo of the actual 'Grand Projet'. The most exciting part is yet to come, I hope you live long enough to see it. We aren't the early adopters. The early adopters haven't even come into the market yet.

That's why financiers don't take a couple of billion dollars cap. seriously and governments regard us as hardly large enough to bother legislating over. This market is HUGE.

We don't need a moon rocket. An alt-coin needs a moon rocket. Rockets are fast, noisy but short-lived. We've been there, done that. We're going to Andromeda, baby. We need a ion-powered starship.