Early enthusiasts for the crypto - currency were drawn to its revolutionary ideals of transparency and a lack of central or official control. (finalternatives.com)
Despite Bitcoin's failure to achieve its initial promise as quickly as early enthusiasts expected, Coinbase, a digital money startup based in San Francisco, has continued to chug along, attempting to find its footing in a market defined less by everyday consumers than by speculators and aficionados. (fortune.com)
The Soviet Union, like the US and Britain, was an early enthusiast for the fast reactor: it built its first prototype in 1956. (newscientist.com)