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

tldr

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.

Tick Tock Next Block

Slowly but surely.

Looks like a pac man