Everyone says $BTC adoption is stalling because of price. The data points elsewhere.

Coinbase and CoinTracker just released numbers that expose the real friction: 61% of US crypto users don't understand how crypto taxes work. Not because they don't want to pay — 74% know gains are taxable and 65% have already filed.

The actual problem is fragmentation. Users averaging 2-3 platforms means clean PnL calculation is a manual nightmare. The compliance burden is turning retail off before they ever look at a price chart.

Here's the interesting part: nearly half of surveyed users said they'd trust AI to handle crypto tax calculations. 30% would fully automate filing.

At what point does a working AI tax layer become more important for adoption than a $10K price move?