It's been a pretty long time since the Bitcoin paper. About the same or longer than the time between the definition of HTTP and the emergence of the web as a useful mainstream technology. Why does this seem to be developing more slowly than the web? Maybe a better analogy is the time it took arpanet to develop into the modern web? Perhaps analogies like this are not worth looking at?

I'm not sure about any of this, but I feel like lots of people recently have been making the argument that it's really early, hasn't had time to develop, etc., when I've been waiting for it to turn into something for a long time now and becoming increasingly skeptical as the goal posts have continued to move.