The slow, physical spread of Bitcoin into the real world — ATMs, merchant acceptance, remittances — was the panel's ground-truth measure of adoption, beyond the price. Progress was real but uneven, and the checkout dream kept receding.
Across the years
Mentions per year in the show transcripts.
The episodes that covered it most
Ranked by how heavily each episode engaged the topic.
METHOD — Counts are keyword/theme matches across the show transcripts (WCN + Mad Bitcoins + TBG).
The written synthesis is grounded in Bitcoin's public history and the show's coverage.