Why not call it adoption? I would call that government adoption. There is literally a government (Ukraine) using bitcoin/ETH/USDT as a currency. This is their official twitter account:
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Well I mean yeah sure it's technically adoption, and by a significantly huge entity. When I said "
Not sure that I would call it adoption.." I meant numbers-wise(volume), that I'm not sure if the masses actually went "
oh shit bitcoin is actually the solution for xyz" and ended up buying bitcoin for the long-term.