i think the catapult comes from the next generation coming of age and growing up with bitcoin from a different perspective that the boomer fud bollocks we've been hearing for like a decade

Someone like Taylor Swift becoming a bitcoin maxi: only contracting in bitcoin, charging bitcoin for concerts and merch, and publicly endorsing it as a world saving revolution.

I would have taken the boring answer, if you hadn't already.

If government did that, how would they earn a profit on your forward thinking or hard work? I am skeptical about all the governments making a bitcoin reserve.

-Banks accept BTC as payment, -Major companies accept BTC as payment, or dramatic scenario -The Crack that everybody is annoucing for so many years!!! -World War -Alien Invasion

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If global brands like McDonald’s and Apple and Starbucks accept it as a mode of payment

If apple only sold iphones for bitcoin.

We keep thinking something bad needs to happen for people to want bitcoin. What if something great would only be available for bitcoin?

I think if all the paying terminals will accept bitcoin and google pay / apple pay will integrate the lightning wallet option

So simply top up your sats balance and then use it as you use apple pay / google pay wallet

In this case there will be no UI change for normies and they will just use bitcoin as money

P.s If by adoption you meant usage, in your example the no capital gains thing will catapult the bitcoin price in fiat, but not the actual usage adoption

A think a bitcoin hub in every major city would dramatically accelerate adoption, I have seen it first hand in Austin in just 5 years with PlebLab. Like most tech revolutions, localized activated communities help spread knowledge, trust, and practical use cases faster than online alone. Bitcoin requires both.

De minimus exceptions to capital gains, KYC, AML, OFAC, etc.

Treat it as money. Stop the tax when it’s mined stop the capital gain tax when people spend it. I think a lot more suppliers would accept it for payment

Interesting take. Removing capital gains would definitely help.

But I think what would instantly catapult adoption is a "real pain point" event — like:

Mass bank freeze or currency devaluation

Global censorship of payments

Or a major tech company fully adopting Bitcoin (not just holding it)

Pain or massive utility > incentives, in my opinion.

If a few more burger chains accepted it

A realization of hyperinflation should do it.

It's a good question, for me the fall of the fucking Fiat system would be the answer to your question, although I highly doubt it will happen.

large online and or national retailer adoption. Amazon, Walmart, or some such.

$1,000,000 per BTC which is why I think that buying and hodling is still the best way to orange pill

If we see a sustained period of S&P and USTs down but bitcoin up I could imagine there would be some fomo

The collapse of the USD? ~$7T USTs need to be rolled over before Christmas - if the interest rate the market demands is significantly higher then the US government inches closer to insolvency- where the increasing cost of servicing your already massive debt load triggers a runaway reduction in investors prepared to put their capital at risk. In such a scenario the FED could step in and buy USTs but this again could still trigger panic in UST holders and a sell off that would be an effective run on the USD.

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My guess is that it's already happening at an almost correct pace. Every now and then you see merchant adoption which definitely brings adoption. If catapult Bitcoin adoption means like the adoption of it as currency, it l'll require a complete shift in the logistics of money. Bitcoin needs to be accepted from the production level to the merchants.

Apple integrating a bitcoin wallet directly into iOS.

The entire works of Darthcoin are broadcast subliminally across the globe.

Little extreme case here, but if government begins seizing property or cash, forcing CBDC like crap in the name of preventing future crimes, people may come to appreciate the value of self-sovereignty and turn to BTC as a truly tangible asset they can own.

ya, I agree. Removing cap gains would be huge

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