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When the price will hit $1000 several hodlers will sell their holdings but the adoption will continue without them.

I think this is a problem with bitcoin. There are too many people who believe the price will always rise, thus preventing them from spending their bitcoin thus preventing adoption from increasing

I agree. We need to see more bitcoin related commerce. When we see enough commerce then we can truly see the benefits that bitcoin has to offer. When enough people use bitcoin then merchants will hopefully start to offer discounts for using it, which will hopefully cause more people to buy and use it, and the circle will continue.

Bitcoin's acceptance isn't really tied to commerce as much as it's crippled by usability. Of course there must be someplace to use Bitcoin for it to have value but for general acceptance it must be easy to use. Until very recently Bitcoin was a toy for techno geeks and nerds because it requires speciality knowledge that the overwhelming majority of citizens don't possess. I'd like to say that Bitcoin could be used by just anyone that spends the time necessary to gain the knowledge but this simply isn't true. There are still many people that can't balance their own checking account ledger and need to have someone else do their taxes because they can't figure it out or their lazy.

Businesses are starting to pop up that will allow Bitcoin to be used like a credit or debit card. These businesses need to create a layer between the protocol and the user that will allow a simpleton to scan a QR code or answer a simple question to pay with and buy Bitcoin. I'd like to see software that fits on a phone works like Bump and asks questions like, "a register near you is requesting that you pay .005 Bitcoin. Would you like to make this payment? This step is really more important than any value that could be assigned to the individual unit of 1 Bitcoin. Satoshi is the unit most people will eventually buy and whole Bitcoins will be reserved for transferring large amounts of money between financial institutions. Ever seen one of these, this is the future one Bitcoin:

These were reserved for bank transfers.

If there was software that would process these kinds of requests for payments then people could easily scam by broadcasting these kinds of requests near a register and when a customer pays the incorrect address there would be nothing they could do about it, nor could anyone prove who was the scammer.

A much better scenario would be retail outlets using a QR code on a PIN pad so you could scan a QR code to send a payment to, include a TX fee, then broadcast the TX to the store's node only. When the store receives the TX they would rebroadcast the TX to multiple "super nodes" ensuring that the TX is well propagated before accepting it as a 0/unconfirmed TX

That's good too. Anything that allows the average dumbass walking down the street in Oklahoma to use Bitcoin is good with me.