[davidgerard]

> There are a lot of points here — many of which have been rebutted elsewhere

I eagerly await your citations.

> People comparing Bitcoin to the Internet are not saying “the internet was big and so will be bitcoin”. The internet comparison is most commonly a counter-argument to people saying “bitcoin is technically confusing and hard to use, so it will never gain mainstream adoption”.

I know of zero cases of such. In every frickin' case, they're saying "the internet was big and so will be bitcoin". Their argument really is that simplistic and bad.