Recently at a conference, a colleague shared this with and I thought I would share it with the community.

Here are the Five Stages of Bitcoin.

1, 2008-2011 ($ 0.001) : Genesis, nerds convincing nerds to code and build Bitcoin by the White Paper of Satoshi Nakamoto

2, 2011-2014 ($ 100.00): TEA, Technical Early Adaptors, first universities adopting master programs, pioneering tech companies join and such business angels

3, 2014-2015 ($ >100.00): TEM, Technical Early Majority, All serious tech companies and serious tech universities are on board of Bitcoin

4, 2015-2016 ($ 1,000.00 - 10,000.00): IEA, Investors Early Adaptors, Non Tech Private Commercial industries enters the Bitcoin Ecosystem

5, 2016-2017($ 10,000.00 - 100,000.00): IEM, Investors Early Majority, Public and Government Backed funding and investments on International (Stock) Exchanges

Any thoughts?