Thank you very much for that valuable input especially because it also comes from firsthand experience on the ground😁 Off the top of my head I would probably assume that big box stores should have been more open to accepting btc as they have the resources and knowledge base (at least on paper) to roll this out, but this clip largely proved that assumption wrong.

Perhaps what he meant by the tongue in cheek comment “who cares about IMF anyway” was to suggest that if real adoption hadn’t taken off in a meaningful way, the revision of the legal tender status of BTC won’t have a significant impact on the ground; at least from a payments perspective. In reality the IMF deal was a huge step backwards as it effectively curtailed the medium of exchange function of BTC & as I said above it’s going to buy them more time to roll out a CBDC.