> If bitcoin’s addressable user base is this large, then there will be a titanic wave of demand for new services increasing bitcoin’s ease of use and utility (the “picks and shovels”), giving rise to a generation of new innovators. 

The road to massive merchant usage is inevitable 

lunanto

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grayruby

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> bitcoin is superior monetary technology [...] there is no self-interested economic actor in the world that will be able to ignore it

Yup, that's why I got into bitcoin, it is better than inflationary fiat. Sooner or later everybody will realize this or use it even if they don't.