The Winklevoss fund is about to be listed on NASDAQ.
First of all, creating a new security can take many years. Second, there is no indication by the SEC that it'll be approved. Third, this is not actually adoption, because people buying this can't actually use
any real bitcoins and be part of the bitcoin economy. It is only for price speculation, like a CFD.
They've already been working on it for almost a year. Second, many observers felt that this week's announcement by the SEC is virtual certainty that it will happen. The more people that put their money in bitcoin, the more they obviously trust it. It is adoption whether you choose to see it or not.
Bitpay has a huge announcement coming soon.
an announcement about a future announcement about an unknown subject is not even worthy of discussion. that reminds me of mtgox...
I think Bitpay has a much better reputation than Mt. Gox. The fact that it is not a rumor but that they tweeted it themselves is a big deal.
Coinbase and Xapo have hinted that Mastercard is coming soon.
hinted?? and this news would hardly qualify as adoption. It will become slightly easier to use coinbase, which already exists - that's not a quantum leap in adoption
Obviously, you understand nothing about network effects and their influence on adoption.