The older people miss a basic conseptual inside , my 13 year old brother and my7 17 year old sister do have.
My parents miss it too , and this is exactly why it will take them over.
why do ppl have to think "oh i missed ... it "
Cant they stop looking at bitcoin as an investment?
Its a technology and it WILL move forward. They just use it for what it is.
Probably the most important thing that is under-emphasized:
BITCOIN IS IN BETA (no one has "missed it") It is not even complete to version 1 and most software efforts aren't complete until version 3 or so. These are the early days, and there are many more early days to come.
When expectations are reasonable, we have the best chance of success.
Thats a wrong way of thinking tho.... Bitcoin wallet client (even the official one) has nothing to do with bitcoin technology.
You cant say because the wallet client is still not version 1 that means the blockchain/bitcoin infrastructure is still in beta. Its pretty obvious now that the infrastructure is WAY pass the beta. And we're pushing to mainstream pretty soon.
Bottom line, bitcoin isn't an investment. Its the utility that ppl miss. All this "missing the boat" crap shows they don't understand what bitcoin is. They don't see how to utilize it.
Yes the network is pretty good, but on pretty much everything else we disagree radically. People ought to think of bitcoin as very much beta. It does not do what the average people think money ought to do and takes a while for people to figure that out.
To say that Bitcoin wallet client has nothing to do with bitcoin technology is not something your average person is going to agree with either. It is all that they will ever see.
And no, we are going mainstream soon, unless we have radically divergent ideas of "mainstream" and "soon".
Just because it is the best money that has ever existed doesn't mean that everyone can deal with it. Not yet anyway.
You almost make my point for me with your last sentence here though "Bottom line, bitcoin isn't an investment. Its the utility that ppl miss. All this "missing the boat" crap shows they don't understand what bitcoin is. They don't see how to utilize it."
It has tremendous potential utility, and very little actual utility, unless you do most of your purchases on the internet, or want to buy gift/debit/prepaid cards and use those at the places that take them.
The Struggles that Matt at Bloomberg is having are all too common. He is in the "above average" group and well within the target user base. Furthermore all those criticisms of bitcoin are accurate, and ignoring that fact is what keeps folks from making the things that will ultimately bring the mainstream adoption. We are not even close. I can't even find a plumber in my major metropolis that takes it.
None of these keeps me from talking about it to everyone I meet, and the confused looks I get from 99% of people is fine with me. I am happy to be the guy that planted the seed in their mind, and wait for it to grow in those minds that are fertile.
! hopefully he understands that these btc are donations 
