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I was going by the number of wallets & some of the repo stats.

You're right though, it's not gaining consumer adoption, but it is gaining merchant, infrastructure and developer interest.

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Yup, definitely gaining merchant adoption(its awesome for merchants) and developer interest(its really interesting technology).

I think a lot of the merchant adoption is driven more by marketing than anything; newegg will get a spike of sales from enthusiastic bitcoiners because of this.

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