I think in a domain of sufficient size, you see all things at once; or maybe: what started as a singular subculture becomes an entire teeming ecosystem. Wrt btc, the geeks are still geeking; the mops are everywhere, with their podcasts and personal brands and vanity startups; and the sociopaths are issuing debt and playing geopolitics.

People insist that we're early. Seems right. Others insist that everything has changed. Also seems right. It's a particle, it's a wave.