Only 2,700 physical stores in the entire world is still 0.00% penetration. Zooming in on the map on NYC shows a total of 61 entries for all 5 boroughs of NYC and the entire surrounding area. For comparison, there are over 150 Starbucks in Manhattan alone. In my entire borough of Queens, only 2 stores take bitcoin and one of them is a just a POS company that is promoting a POS that takes bitcoin. I went and looked at the websites of a few of the other businesses listed around NYC and they made no mention of bitcoin. On a serious note, I'd be curious if a retail store can even properly take bitcoin in a standard retail transaction given that it currently takes around 10 minutes to confirm a bitcoin transaction[1], unlike cash which is instant or credit card which is 5-10 seconds.

[1] Source: http://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

> Plus there are 90,000+ online merchants that accept Bitcoin via Spotify.

I think you mean that 75,000+ online merchants have the option of accepting bitcoin via Shopify if they decide to enable it. Shopify merchants must explicitly enable it (it's off by default) and there have been no numbers released on how many have.

> Plus there are some major companies joining every day, including Overstock and Tesla.

As discussed previously, Overstock isn't pricing in bitcoin or assuming any of the risk of bitcoin. Overstock never even touches it, just letting Coinbase be a 'pay via' vendor ala PayPal or Google Wallet and only dealing in USD for pricing and their actual payment from Coinbase done via a realtime conversion of BTC to USD. Mind you, I'm not minimizing that as it's still a pretty big deal.

Tesla doesn't accept bitcoins. That Tesla S from the story in December was purchased at a 3rd party dealership in USD that were converted from bitcoins. The story that he walked in to a Tesla dealership and bought it with bitcoins was a bit of an exaggeration that some bitcoin fans seem to keep repeating.

> Ah, sure, but 99%+ of them is people tipping each other for fun on Reddit and other sites, and transactions on exchanges. They are not goods purchased, simply because there are almost no places to spend Doge.

Quite true. But it's still very impressive for a cryptocurrency only one month old compared to the 5 year old bitcoin. When bitcoin came out, people used it to tip each other and do silly things on reddit, too, but nowhere close to the numbers you see from dogecoin now.