You mentioned above about "However, in a press release, Burtey suggests that the idea may have been before its time: there was no Lightning Network and no nation-state Bitcoin adoption." I want to discuss about the press release, i mean i saw that thing too it did not inspired me that much, But i saw somewhere on
yahoo Finance press release that the dollar will gonna be on it's peak soon so it will gonna have an impact on bitcoin marketing. You can check it out by the link given above.