Good write up and good questions.

Tangentially I was an early Linux adopter. I first installed it around 94-95. There are some interesting historical parallels to Linux and Bitcoin.

This has been largely forgotten to history, but up until 1999, there was constant FUD and legal threats over linux (in fact the term FUD itself was created during this time from a leaked Microsoft memo on how to combat Linux).

At the time, I had colleagues tell me "....we can never install linux here because we will get sued out of existence for that....".

During 95-98 acceptance increased and the linux ecosystem grew by leaps and bounds. In 1999 an unexpected and momentous thing occurred....something no one really predicted and it changed the course of computing history. IBM announced that it was working with RedHat to both port its applications to Linux as well as port Linux to run on System Z.

This was really a game changer. Within months Linux went from this fringe sort of quasi-hobbyist endeavor, to being fully embraced across the IT landscape. The rest of course is history....Linux basically took over 90% of the data centers....and invisibly worked its way into all sorts of embedded products.

Regarding Bitcoin, the US announcing the establishment of Bitcoin Strategic Reserve -- even if rather minor of a few billion dollars -- would be a similar situation. It would greenlight bitcoin and give it a permanent seat at the table. The resulting game theory would basically ensure that it got bid up orders of magnitude in value.....maybe 1000x. Particularly if corporations followed suit and each adopted their own "BTC Treasury" solution like MSTR.