According to @MikeSilagadze, the crypto card he references is processing about $1 million in daily spend and roughly 1,000 transactions per hour during most of the day, indicating significant payment throughput; source: Mike Silagadze on X, Sep 13, 2025. He adds the product is already ahead of almost any other crypto card by usage but still needs roughly 100x scale to reach mainstream adoption, framing clear growth benchmarks for monitoring; source: Mike Silagadze on X, Sep 13, 2025. For traders, the stated $1M/day spend and ~1k tx/hour can serve as near-term utilization metrics to track real-world payments adoption within crypto card verticals; source: Mike Silagadze on X, Sep 13, 2025.

According to Dan Held, Bitcoin payments did very little to drive adoption, with 99% of adoption over the last 15 years coming from store-of-value speculation; source: Dan Held on X, Aug 29, 2025. According to Dan Held, traders should prioritize signals tied to speculative demand and the store-of-value narrative over payment usage metrics when assessing BTC; source: Dan Held on X, Aug 29, 2025.