Yeah, interesting point. I keep thinking back to what Ned said during the fireside chat as well in terms of needing to make the currency completely ubiquitous and stable before you can actively pursue using it as digital cash and working towards merchant adoption.

I also wonder, though, how much merchant adoption is hindered by the fees themselves. There was some momentum early on (I got involved early 2013) to sign up merchants and get them using it. Now that momentum has to start from scratch with other projects.