You are right. There would still need to be an ecosystem of people accepting it, but I just think there is that added knowledge hurdle with bitcoin that people need to get over where as they already understand a digital representation of a dollar, whether that is onchain or not is meaningless to them. 

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They still need locals to accept Tether, though. I'm not sure that's a different hurdle than accepting Bitcoin, unless the traditional financial service providers start accepting Tether as though it were dollars.