Survey Results: 59% of Merchants Accept Bitcoin to Boost Ecosystem

Survey Results: 59% of Merchants Accept Bitcoin to Boost Ecosystem

This is Part One of a three-part series aimed at learning more about the merchants who accept bitcoin and support the wider digital currency ecosystem. The results are based on a survey issued on 17th March that received more than 200 responses. From Californian wineries to bars in Beijing, 2013 was widely considered a banner year for bitcoin, as business owners around the world began to take advantage of the technology to cut costs and woo new and influential consumers. Unsurprisingly, expectations were high for 2014, and so far, it's delivered with major brands such as Lord & Taylor,....


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This is Part Two of a three-part series aimed at learning more about the merchants who accept bitcoin and support the wider digital currency ecosystem. The results are based on a survey issued 17th March that received more than 200 responses. Part One of this series sought to better define the merchants who are taking part in the bitcoin ecosystem. In the first installment of our merchant survey, we uncovered that the majority - 59% - of merchants are accepting bitcoin to better support the bitcoin ecosystem. However, the bigger takeaway from this statistic is that the main driver of....

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From less than a thousand, the number of merchants accepting Bitcoin in Japan has grown by more than four times in the last twelve months, according to a new survey by ResuPress Inc, the company that runs Coincheck, one of the major Bitcoin exchanges in the country. Aside from the Bitcoin exchange, ResuPress also provides Bitcoin payment processing for merchants very similar to the service BitPay offers. 4,200 Japanese shops accept Bitcoin. According to NHK, the survey shows that the number of stores that accept the digital currency especially on the Internet in the Japanese market....

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