Merchant Adoption: Supplements First
If your looking for some products that will help your body, check out at Supplements First. they also accept Bitcoin also, which is always a plus. They also hold the BItcoin they recieve, something that seems quite rare still. When I noticed that there was a lack of a retailer for health & fitness supplements for Bitcoins on the market. As such when I went into the project to provide users supplements for Bitcoins I instinctively decided to offer premium products from well known manufactures at discount prices for Bitcoins. Not much of a development, but development mainly securing my....
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Most merchants who adopt Bitcoin do not keep the bitcoins they earn but instead sell them for dollars on exchanges immediately using payment processing services such as BitPay. Consequently, the merchant creates selling pressure at the exchange, which drives the price down. So far this effect has been relatively mild, but there is a real possibility that the “merchant adoption” effect could spiral out of control if the selling pressure from new merchants is so great as to induce other people to dump their bitcoins. Once this happens, the price of Bitcoin could drop to zero in minutes. This....
Bitcoin company executives and analysts including Irene Katzela, CEO of Chain of Points, firmly believe retailer and merchant adoption is the key to bitcoin mainstream adoption. Since 2014, the bitcoin industry and market have seen a rapid emergence of bitcoin-accepting merchants. Companies like TigerDirect and Expedia have begun to offer bitcoin as one of their main payment methods. Currently, bitcoin is perceived more as a store of value and a safe haven asset rather than an actual digital currency. Some bitcoin investors like Roger Ver argue that the development community of bitcoin....
One of the biggest questions surrounding Bitcoin is why it is worth anything at all. A popular candidate for answering this question is the influence of merchant adoption. Unfortunately for proponents of this theory, things haven’t been making sense lately. In their Bitcoin-focused blog BitBeat, the Wall Street Journal stated: They go on to cite a post from coinbrief.net which argues that “the most important pieces of news are those that cover major players in the Bitcoin community or cover breakthroughs—or setbacks—in mainstream adoption.” “After last week’s news that Dell would start....
While it's safe to say that 2014 was a banner year for bitcoin in terms of merchant adoption - with the likes of Overstock, DISH, Dell and Microsoft entering the space - 2015 hasn't quite started with the same bang. Though rumors continue to swirl about a possible Uber or Airbnb entrance, the highest profile merchant to accept bitcoin this year has been a local subsidiary of global real estate franchise RE/MAX. Members of the bitcoin processing ecosystem seem divided on the state of this industry sector entering March. Those contacted by CoinDesk all agreed that, after months of grabbing....