It's a mistake to focus on Norton in this context. The "correct" way of reading of this headline should be something like "reputable company puts an Ethereum wallet and mining software in the hands of millions of users".
Now imagine if tomorrow Microsoft decided to add a crypto wallet and mining tools to Windows, or Google to Chrome.
If it were all that altruistic then they shouldn't need to collect 15%, give them the miner they could download for free.
People keep saying this as if crypto isn't already mainstream. Exchanges have hundreds of millions of customers. A significant portion of the world has traded crypto. And 99.99% aren't doing anything else with it but speculate.
It's not as if magically bundling a wallet on millions of machines will suddenly cause a bunch of usecases to materialize.
I never said that any single exchange has over hundred million, but rather exchanges combined have hundreds of millions.
(pdf) https://assets.ctfassets.net/hfgyig42jimx/5u8QqK4lqjEgL506mO...
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-u...
But 100m people isn’t mainstream? Coinbase has 73m (mostly American) customers itself, and undoubtedly there are many many more who know of Coinbase but aren’t customers. The Super Bowl commands fewer than 100m viewers. Crypto companies are sponsoring sports teams and stadiums. Matt Damon is doing commercials for them.
You don’t think that’s mainstream?
In the world, no 100m is not mainstream, particularly by its definition, "the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts." Crypto is not normal or conventional yet, traditional money is still dominant; its more a curiosity.
You make a good argument about the superbowl, but parallel your first sentence - viewership was only at the time of, and doesn't account for people present or who watched at a later date (ie., many). It's also been around for decades as part of American culture, maybe crypto will do this eventually. I don't see statistics for coinbase by country, but 73m is their total userbase.
The only correct response is "Fuck you Microsoft/Google/etc. You're expunged and I'll never trust you again."
After that it's, your bank doesn't allow you to log on except with an approved device with the security chip.
Then it's, your government imposes misdemeanor charges for not checking in on your COVID quarantine app (which runs only on security-chipped phones). Due to COVID restrictions, your arraignment hearing will be held on Zoom, which in its latest update, only runs on security-chipped hardware.
None of this will seem especially draconian in today's "green bubbles = breakup" society.