This simply isn't true. If you pointed out that adoption and price aren't growing in a correlated manner I'd be inclined to agree, but steam, whole foods, and subway weren't accepting bitcoin 4 years ago.

At least three of those payment acceptors also make to US top 25 list for traffic (Microsoft's bing, reddit, wikipedia) so they aren't exactly zero traffic, either.

https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companie...

I don't even have a dog in this fight, as I don't own any, but this is blatant misinformation.