People are using it for online transactions that is good, but that brings us to the same point that others who are not involved in online shopping are not aware about the bitcoins, if a common man is aware about the bitcoins then I think it is popular.
Almost world people have accessed internet, and I'm sure most of them have ever bought something through online shop atleast once or twice. And bitcoin banning by government force people to use it only in internet. But it cant affect the popularity of bitcoin if they really do many transaction with that. So we dont need to make any real shop that accept bitcoin to prove the popularity of bitcoin in the country.