no we re not the late adopters, you have to remember that bitcoin was pumped up by Mark kapales and his goons. so the fact it did not reach 1000 naturally means we are still early adopters, They are tons of people who still dont know about bitcoin yet. Im surprised at this current level bitcoin is not spiking. Thanks to again reason is not spiking is because of alt coins, traders, and not enough demand yet. That 2013 gold rush was fake, it was paid by exchanges and mining companies to pump and dump. So again we are still the early adopters. Next year is going to be a better year for bitcoin. Value will head to 500 to 800. So stop crying about we are late adopters and think, then buy, buy buy. Dont panick sell because the weak traders are dumping.
You know that price range and threshold of $1000 is purely fictional number and it doesn't mean if bitcoin will reach stable $1000 price range we will be out of some sort of phase. It doesn't work like that.
The truth is that we now have no easy way to obtain bitcoins anymore, mining is not profitable for 'normal' users and they only way to acquire bitcoin is just to buy it for cash. Early adopters could easily mine bitcoins that is the difference. So I guess we are not exactly in the 'early' stage of bitcoin anymore.
Another post to go down on the history books 
