Payments Processor Confirms Growing Interest in Bitcoin
Bitcoin payments processing company BitPay recently confirmed that there is a growing interest for the cryptocurrency among both online merchants and customers. In an article in IBTimes, BitPay indicated that the use of bitcoin is switching from an investment to an everyday currency in transactions. In particular, the bitcoin payments processor revealed that the total number of bitcoin transactions more than doubled last year. However, this was partly a result of the fact that the average order value has dropped by almost half. Bitcoin Payments Adoption. "As bitcoin becomes a more....
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