So, I read up a few articles recently, including this that say Tampa (Florida) got a thriving Bitcoin circular economy.

I have never been there, but it got me immensely interested because this is not something happening in the obscure jungle of Panama or remote beaches of El-Salvador, but a decent sized regional hub at the heart of America, with free flow of information/visitor/money to and from the outside world (at least other regions of Florida, and Miami is a stone's throw away).

I am someone who thinks of Bitcoin, before anything else, as a superior-form-of-money (compared to fiat IOU) and always keen to follow the real life implications of Gresham's Law and Thier's law in semi-reliable currency regimes.

Those laws collectively predict a sort of spontaneous convergence as well, to the best form of money among neighbouring region, as the network effect from the better money accumulates and more sellers prefer the superior money to the inferior one once they see the value and growing network. From some reading, it appears to be a positive feedback cycle of adoption as the network growth plants the seed of further growth.

So to anyone who lives in or frequents that area and observes the Bitcoin evolution closely enough, do you see it spreading (like a virus, but a good form of virus) around the area, block-by-block, then city by city, to nearby Orlando or elsewhere in the region? I mean to what extent do you think the contagion works, as it should, if Bitcoin is a superior money?

And also, are there are decent sized metro areas like this in the US?