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No on-chain volume figures or payment-processor data accompanied President Donald Trump's assertion to Punchbowl News that consumers are increasingly paying with Bitcoin over cash.
The claim arrived as the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, with no cloture filing confirmed at publication.
The consumer adoption claim Trump said he observes more and more people "paying with Bitcoin" who "don't even know about cash anymore," adding the shift "takes a lot of pressure off our dollar." The statement is anecdotal.
No merchant adoption rate or transaction volume figure was cited. Bitcoin's utility as a payment medium versus a store of value remains contested, and no third-party measurement was referenced in the remarks.
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