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> mainstream adoption for e-commerce etc having almost completely collapsed ? The adoption was slow (and IS slow) but it never "collapsed." The same places I
by icelancer 8y ago
> mainstream adoption for e-commerce etc having almost completely collapsed
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The adoption was slow (and IS slow) but it never "collapsed." The same places I used BTC to order stuff from 9 months ago are the same places I use BTC to order stuff from now. And there are new ones popping up slowly but surely.
- jpatokal 8y agoStripe, Steam, Expedia and Microsoft all stopped accepting BTC last year. What new mainstream merchants replaced them?
- icelancer 8y agoWhy must more merchants replace them for transaction volume to go up? Could there not be more transactions through the existing merchants that had order flow as the use of BTC spend grows organically?
- jpatokal 8y agoIf accepting BTC was raking in dough for some merchants, you would expect more merchants to start adopting it. However, it appears that many merchants who did accept BTC in the past no longer do. Or put another way, can you point to some stats that show increased organic BTC spend for e-commerce?
- arcticbull 8y agoIt went from 5 major retailers to 3. That’s a 40% drop.
- icelancer 8y agoThis implies the bulk of the traffic was at the major retailers. I am not sure the data would support that assertion.
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