I think the publicity of information on places like Hive and Bitcoin are going to really drive the adoption of places like Monero where transactions are verified on the chain but the two end points are not traceable (my very simplistic understanding of how it works.. could be completely wrong :D) in the future. I'm biding my time to get in on those, I had a bit of Dash for a while but lost that when the faucet seemingly stopped responding to anyone's inquiry and shut down. The beauty of it.. lol
I try to tell people like my dad that it doesn't matter what's on the ol' tube, the same people are still funding both sides of this false dichotomy. He's getting there but still believes in a lot of things that aren't right. I guess we have to have our own beliefs and hold onto something, uprooting it all mentally is a mind fuck for sure.
I think with how they've acted in the recent memory here, they are trigger happy and that will drive people to get out of things, rather than suffer. They can certainly buy up all of the Bitcoin but what then? We will just use something different! The masses are what drives a lot of these things, not the few.
Never got into dash - hold a little Monero - just in case :)
Yeah, unless it comes through a lot of pain, it is probably going to take a while for people to understand what is actually going on. The desire is, not to explore this at all.
The more we realize this, the less chance they will risk trying to centralize it :) they can get in, but know that if they expand too much, they will pay a very high price.