It's because of experiences like this that charts and claims like these don't reflect real adoption as it should be—definitive for the user. Apps that handle the exchange between fiat and bitcoin are like pre-paid BTC cards; they're an illusion of what living the "bitcoin standard" would be, just window dressing, a monetary system wearing a bitcoin mask. Real adoption can come from this when one of these merchants starts accepting bitcoin in their own wallets, motivated to understand how it works by updates like this. They'll know what it's about: a circular economy, nothing for the fiat system. For that to happen, they need to be sovereign individuals, and that is the biggest barrier to mass adoption.
Stories like these are good regardless of the outcome; they show that it doesn't hurt to ask and that there are more people out there asking.
It's because of experiences like this that charts and claims like these don't reflect real adoption as it should be—definitive for the user. Apps that handle the exchange between fiat and bitcoin are like pre-paid BTC cards; they're an illusion of what living the "bitcoin standard" would be, just window dressing, a monetary system wearing a bitcoin mask. Real adoption can come from this when one of these merchants starts accepting bitcoin in their own wallets, motivated to understand how it works by updates like this. They'll know what it's about: a circular economy, nothing for the fiat system.
For that to happen, they need to be sovereign individuals, and that is the biggest barrier to mass adoption.
Stories like these are good regardless of the outcome; they show that it doesn't hurt to ask and that there are more people out there asking.