Starbucks, Facebook Microsoft Amazon and many many more began to adopt crypto

[The Sceptical Chymist]

who knows, maybe 5 years from now, we'll see some results.

Hopefully not that long.  The only company in the list I really care about is Starbucks, because they seem to be pondering the idea of accepting crypto--at least by the last statement in the linked article in the OP.  I know their big thing is using blockchain tech to track coffee (not sure if that's going to be popular or not), but they have some involvement with Bakkt and it was hinted that:

The coffee company was said last August to be working to develop “practical, trusted and regulated” applications for consumers to convert digital assets into U.S. dollars.

Now, I've no idea what that really means but Starbucks does have a history of being progressive and tapping into trends.  It'd be nice if they actually started to take bitcoin as payment--but we'll see.  I've been hearing the same rumors for years as well.

Happy to see the market is slowly adapting crypto currenices espeicaly bitcoin.

I think all of this is about adopting blockchain technology rather than bitcoin, in which case I don't think this is necessarily going to be a boost for any particular cryptocurrency.

[ChrisPop]

Isn't it not obvious? Again companies are much "smarter" sort to say then the governments. Of course they have more freedom but this is another sign that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are the OBVIOUS way to move forward. That is the next step for our world, no doubt about that. It just takes time and patience. Would love if the Starbucks in my city would accept BTC as payment method too, though I would dwell spending my precious crypto versus spending my garbage fiat currency.

[malikusama]

The only issue I have with this so called adoption is that is not a direct Bitcoin-to-Bitcoin transaction though. They still have someone in between like Bitcoin Payment Processor, like Bitpay or and Flexa as in the case of Starbucks. So we are still a far cry from the so called global adoption, we wanted we see is those big companies accepting Bitcoin directly, in my opinion.

We don't have any other choice i guess. The complete adoption without any mediator is still seems impossible even after big players are entered into the market. What i have observed is that big players don't want to loose the authority of controlling the money, if pure crypto adoption happened then all the power will automatically transferred to public and that's what big players don't want.

[lab rat hoax]

I am happy to see such developments because I have always dreamed of entering cryptocurrencies into our daily lives. As the use of the block chain increases and companies that accept payments in crypto currencies increase this market will develop more. Soon everything will be very nice and much useful:)