Seems like you and I may well be on a similar page, Lucius, yet I will just repeat that there seems to be an agenda in terms of overstating the level of adoption of bitcoin, and surely frequently there are desires to treat bitcoin like a mature market (asset class) or to suggest that it's run has already happened and minimize the actual fact that bitcoin is in the midst (more likely early stages) of exponential s-curve adoption,.......
You went way too fast way too far..
No, it's not a complicated scheme, those numbers are simply a product of two things, sometimes combined, sometimes independent
- paid articles by exchanges or wallet or other solutions providers that want to boost their numbers
- researches done to justify the exitance of some research groups and the price they ask for polling information
Would an article mentioning the fact that there are only 15 million addresses with more than 100$ worth of bitcoin make the headlines? And it is addresses, not users! "Less than 0.5% of the world population owns more than 100$ in Bitcoin", nope, not clickable!
It's the common thing when it comes to news nowadays, if you die in a crash in a pile-up on the highway with 50 others you will have a hundred articles about you, if you die alone hitting a pole you won't get even a line, big numbers and big claims it what matters, that's why you see journalist switching between the increase in price from cents to percentages, to give you the impression that something really really extraordinary is happening.
Across Europe we have a 10% so-called crypto adoption, every 1 in 10 should own some crypto, I really want to know where the fword are the supposed 200 thousand crypto owners in my metropolitan area cause I'm not seeing them anywhere, real-life, forums, Facebook, nowhere! Not even in one of the coffee shops that takes crypto where the owner always tells us that if it were for just for us same four guys that pay like that once a month he wouldn't be able to pay even the power bill for his laptop.
Anyhow, enough venting, where are we with this bill as I'm seeing a lot of articles running around in circles?
There was an amendment by Wyden, it was supposed to be adopted and then I read it was blocked(!?), so what is the current situation?