Washington has begun to create new rules relating to Bitcoin's dealings. Businesses that have digital money services will benefit from these rules as this is one of the incremental steps of bitcoin.
It indeed will be a step and one of the reasons people will see the need and value of bitcoin in its essence.
Bitcoin may not have been used as a currency fully at this stage, but that does not mean a time will come when this stage will be attained and for the fact that people may still be able to use it as a safe spot to keep their funds in the case of the likes of things happening in the US, I guess that would bring about some rapid growth for it. Let's see how this would go eventually anyway.