“Can I Pay With Bitcoin?”
The state of merchant Bitcoin adoption and what’s coming next
There’s something very cool about paying with Bitcoin — in any form — with a retailer.
From asking the question, to the near-instant confirmation over the lightning network via QR code, the whole thing feels exciting, different, futuristic and, somehow, slightly naughty. Even for people like me, who have been using it for years all over the world, it just never gets old.
This is probably part of the reason why Bitcoiners will actually travel — sometimes quite a long way — to make payments for products and services they can readily get on their own doorstep just to re-experience the thrill of doing it, like a junkie looking for the next hit.
But how far has merchant adoption come and what can we do, as everyday Bitcoiners, to further it?
The reality of merchant adoption
There’s now no doubt that Bitcoin itself is here to stay. It has simply come too far and is worth too much to fail.
With its ongoing integration into the TradFi (Traditional Finance) system, we’re seeing increasing inflows of capital from large scale institutional money from all sorts of high value sources all over the world, including pension funds. Every day…
