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Hi guys.
I'm wondering what's your opinion on the goods purchased in currencies other than euros or dollars, say crypto. I'm aware it's being used as a regular currency in various fields now. There are, for instance, lots of successfully run marketplaces based on crypto out there. 
Over the past year, the market capitalization within crypto soared to the Moon.  Unfortunately, it's been a bear trend for a while now and no one can say for sure when it's gone. However, I am still thinking there's some light at the end of the tunnel - new market, pretty few competitors, great potential. So it's high time to become an active user.

So that begs the questions: Your thoughts on crypto as a payment method? Any progress achieved in the upcoming year?

Sure, many payment projects now are close to integrating crypto-fiat payments in shops. It depends on the progress of Lightning Network actually whether BTC is the main movers or not. From what I see, LN wouldn't be ready in 2019. Therefore, this is the year for altcoins to overtake BTC as payment tools.

BTC would stay strong to be the internet gold. Crypto-exchanges would still anchor BTC for trading pairs, but not for buying goods from stores.

The bearish trend has really crippled the desire to keep the assets in the crypt and increase them, so the capitalization this year will definitely sink. as for the prospects, it is not yet clear whether the presence of cryptocurrencies will increase in everyday life.
In any case, the experience of many successful projects shows that moving in this direction is not the worst idea.

I think now is not the best time to enter the market. many will say that the best time than panic sell and can not think of, but I'm not a supporter of this position. despite this, it is safe to say that even in the current not the most positive situation, the use of the crypt will be found for anyone, a question of needs.

I read recently that many Chinese investors of the crypto went to gold instead of the crypto. This fact alerted me. And then I thought that this is a normal market situation and the departure of investors in another matter is a regular situation.Left-old will come new. I think the influx of new investors will definitely be that will increase the performance of the crypt. And such projects as the purchase of goods for the crypto currency will definitely develop, because while there is a market, there will be a need for the turnover and sale of the crypto currency.

I have no insight into what 2019 holds in terms of overall payments made with bitcoin. But I have for the past 3 years happily been accepting bitcoin for my goods & services. My clients have bene happy with that so they continue to use me even if they have hesitations to get into bitcoin! I'm always glad to help out the noobies with things like that.

I wonder what markets have you heard of? I recently found MT, now studying. I have a feeling this is going to take off. I decided that while there is time it is necessary to get acquainted with this market.

It isn't tackled anymore about Bakkt and Fidelity but I think it will give a certain force that will drive more people and businesses to adopt crypto as a means of payment. The market is speculative and people doesn't want to take risk without assurance of what they are entering.

Many of them are scared that this bear won't end but rest assured, crypto as a payment method has been always a success. There's no certain measurement on how successful it was but take this forum as an example of its success. And for that progress that you've been asking, it's too early to say.

Just wait for it but I don't think it is going to get much progress in 2019 as a payment system since the prices fell too much so firstly the prices need to recover and then it convinces people to invest more and then it maybe considered as a payment system looks like a longer process for me.

As mentioned crypto payments were getting integrated with large scale businesses. This starts from even small shops located on rural part of the nation. Right now these stores weren't generating big revenue through bitcoin acceptance. Slowly this will change with more and more revenue being generated through crypto services.

How many people so much and of views. Someone stopped believing in the crypt and transferred their assets. The other part, on the contrary, believes in it and invests literally the last. The same second part of people is actively studying marketplaces, where they pay with crypt. And the reviews of these people are only positive.

The potential of the crypto market is already foolish to deny. For Example: Beatify, Purse.io, MT. We live, everything changes, after some time the crypt will become an alternative currency. And who refused the crypt not long ago going to be sorry. See what results they show. These sites are free to compete with conventional marketplaces

Pressures coming from people and businesses who already cater bitcoin or crypto adoptions will bring more light to this question, few days ago I saw threads about members who enjoyed visiting asian country and use his bitcoin as payment process, if that can be implemented from that specific place and more people will learned about that, for sure it will bring more additions to businesses that will ride with the popularity of this industry.

We just need to be calm while waiting for the mass adoptions that we are all hoping to happen, bringing this industry to whole world and be successful
from the field that it was really intended to be used.

I do not understand why any unstable dynamics in the crypto market is considered as a quick death? Guys, it's the same market, it's also unstable from time to time. if you take the whole crypto movement - it's only positive way. Projects are interesting. Take the same visio with MT cryptomarket. There's more advantages than the similar projects. 1.Assortment 2. There is a private exchanger, with a good rate of 3.The theme of the auction,fans of a freebie

Wait or enter the world of crypto now or later, the question of each person. I believe that now is not the time to immerse yourself in it completely. As for the purchase of goods for the crypt-it's different. Especially for those who already have a crypt. I think the purchase of goods on crypto markets is one of the ways to study this market. If you are interested in this topic,the study 21 Market, OpenBazaar, and the MT stuff is really good

I'm more interested in whether there are projects that are not related to markets, but also based on the payment of goods and services for the crypt?

To say that there is no competition - it's stupid, you've mentioned a couple of markets. After all, they function and there are at least 5 of them, in this case, the question of competition is open.

I hope that LN will get a boom. A wide use. Then we can start using for real Bitcoin as a payment method.
And I think that it's enough that even some web wallet providers offer LN channels and some bold merchants do the same.

I think as long as one is the most competitive market is MT, Yes relatively young. But the potential is good. I have not heard any negative reviews

To achieve a goal, of course there will be many things that we encounter during the journey, as well as crypto currencies where in the current year are going through difficult times where I see public confidence in the crypto currency starting to decline due to the many phenomena that occur the last time, but in my opinion in the coming year crypto currencies will enter a period of recovery and investors will again increase even more than last year.

Hmm, are there? Besides darknet markets, that is?


The Lightning network (and apps/wallets used to interact with it) is progressing nicely. I think we'll see Lightning usage ramp up a lot over the next year or two, especially when on chain fees start rising again.

I thought this was a pretty cool development for merchants. It's a Lightning wallet, with full node and BTCpay server that functions as a point of sale terminal: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/new-zap-point-sale-app-enables-merchants-accept-lightning/

As far as I know the theme of crypto markets is a new one. After looking at some information: the projects of crypto-markets like MT and OpenBazaa are quite progressive.

Well, we're here to talk about the marketplace. And directly, someone is familiar with those from the inside. Have you ordered smth, made purchases via crypto funds?

Our market only thrives when the recession no longer exists. We are affected by the recession very much and we are being pulled back.
We need to work harder to save the market from destruction. Don't expect too much that the crypto market will flourish in 2019, that's fanciful.

Crypto payments will be popular, as more people realize that crypto is the easiest method fast and effective. Even though the crypto market is down, many will use this moment. Even fundraising in crypto is still running.

Crypto payments wouldn't really hit it yet IMO knowing that there aren't enough merchants accepting the said payment method. The problem is not on the buyer's side but on the selling side, as most are still hesitant to integrate cryptocurrencies into their checkout pages. Bitcoin is fast, secure and reliable in itself, but the price is what makes the conflict for most merchants. Market capitalization and high price alone wouldn't seal the deal, you also need price stability if you want the merchants pouring in.

I don't think that this year has been too hopeful that bitcoin will be used as a payment tool. but I hope that this year, more countries will regulate it to be included in the trade exchange

You should not be worried at all because there are improvements that are happening in the cryptocurrency market even it is still down.  We can expect that by the end of the year, the users of the cryptocurrencies will increase by 100% and more.

There just isn't enough people using crypto for payments at this point in time.  It doesn't even have the ability to be decentralized and scale yet anyways.  Right now bitcoin is mostly a store of value, I think of it as digital gold. Of course it is still used as payments but I like to think of it as a digital gold bearer bond.

There has indeed been some progress in accepting cryptocurrencies as payment. The two immediate things that come to my mind are related to Japan. The first one is that Rakuten (Japanese Amazon) intends to accept cryptos as payment (https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/rakuten-amazons-rival-of-japan-plans-to-start-accepting-bitcoin-and-crypto-payments-in-april-2019/), which is pretty huge. This is a great example of how buying goods and services can work out for cryptos, since online payments don't need to be as fast as the ones in real life (because you don't have to wait in a queue). Another thing is an experiment Japan plans to conduct with cryptos being accepted in real life (they will most likely make their own token for that, though): https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611656/will-people-ditch-cash-for-cryptocurrency-japan-is-about-to-find-out/.

The profitable way of money making is always cryptocurrency so it definitely had the ability to be a normal money by the usage of normal daily life and people also waiting for that changes to buy and sell products for cryptocurrency so definitely will be happened.

I hope it can be used for online purchases and payments because I think bitcoin is easier to do it all. I think the world will be practical if you use bitcoin as a payment.

I don't think that will happen this year.

We all know that the price is so low and a lot of people don't really like cryptocurrencies. If crypto payments will be popular, then what is the reason behind that? Yes, people don't know the transaction fees or the transaction speed but I don't think you should say that it is effective. Instead of using them as a method of payment, I think people will just save it and wait for the price to pump.

If cryptocurrency used for payment in merchant, in many country need government regulation and i think its need more time. Many project do this and that project prefer create their own market place. But mostly crypto can used as payment if that is online store.

Right now the bear market trend brings fear to some users of cryptocurrency but it does not mean it will totally make it dead. Yes, there are online stores which accept crypto and most likely those online casinos. I think bearish market will end in few years time, so let's be optimistic about it and think more positively that bull run will trigger.

In my country is all I know that there is a company that accept bitcoin as payment for electricity bill, water bill, game currency and load which is still happening now as I did use it too. As we all know not all accept cryptocurrency as payment for goods and other stuffs.

Crypto was supposed to be used as currency but still struggle because most of the governments still hasn't sure adopting crypto could benefit for the country, the progress is moving really slow but more and more countries already started to try to adopt crypto although its a small step but its moving forward, the mass adoption that we hope is still far, but we are slowly moving to that direction

If only the government will realize the positive impact of economy in their country, then they'll be the one to encourage their people to start investing in cryptos. But, unfortunately they will never do that for sure. Some countries already adopting cryptos. There are exchanges in some countries that allows you to pay bills using your cryptos. I hope other countries will also adopt that method. By doing so, it will gain more popularity.

You are right, crypto-currencies are progressing, they are gaining more recognition and the number of establishments and trading places that accept crypto-currencies as a means of payment is increasing, but you need to recognize the fact that most people are not ready to use digital currencies, just as a means of payment , and see only as a way to profit.

Crypto as payment method this year for goods, will become more improve. The way I can see with it, lots of country now are becoming opened into this concepts. Its not because the average of trend about in crypto was increasing but majority of the country now are awakening on this innovations in terms of blockchain technology. That's why lot of merchants are now adopting it already all over the world.

I hope that in 2019, the implementation of the use of bitcoin as a crypto currency that can be used for global financial transactions can continue to grow and more and more countries are accepting and legalizing bitcoin, so the price of bitcoin does not continue to deteriorate as it is now.

It depends on which country you are referring to, it is already being used in venezuela and soon many other countries will follow. Iran is going to issue it's own version and Russia is planning the same thing too.

I expect merchant adoption to contract. If there's any expenditure necessary to keep a crypto payment option available, most merchants are going to get rid of it. No one's buying, let alone spending. The high point for merchant adoption was 2014. It's been downhill pretty steadily ever since.

About next year it is difficult to say something. But in the near future, crypto will obviously replace or become on a par with the dollar, etc. Already, you can see how they are being introduced into various platforms.

The crypto market has been in a very downward slide despite great adoptation of blockchain solutions and also accepting cryptocurrencies as a medium of payment on various platforms. Even though many are packing i am very optimistic that this year is going to be a good year for us to see a rise in the crypto market.

At the moment now, lot of project are struggling to open the payment gateway due to the market downtrend. But am optimistic about what the future tends to give concerning the payment gateway.

There is also the trouble of changing money from bitcoin to your bank account with ease. That is why shops do not accept bitcoin that easily, we need a global company that makes changing bitcoin to fiat very easy and that way we can turn the bitcoin payments to a regular thing.

If a company figures out a way for a shop to accept bitcoin, even not accept bitcoin but just accept payments with debit cards or mobile phones, we can mange to pay with our crypto while they receive fiat, the middleman will be making money from the buyer of course but allowing us to spend bitcoin and let the shop decide if they will receive bitcoin or fiat INSTANTLY will allow us to use it in many more places. Until that day we are bound to just use it on places that accept bitcoin.

Means of payment,still we are not anywhere near it just thousands of shit projects were created and claiming that they are going to be the future of payment system but none of them are even not completing their ICOs successfully so investors and the people who want to hold are not getting any interest now so better to hold now than focusing on its payment method.

Actually there is this marketplace platform for major cryptocurrencies that held an ICO 2 years ago. Their goal is to find merchants that will be selling their goods in their platform just like in ebay and Amazon but they will be accepting cryptocurrencies as payment. I been keeping an eye on this project, but because of the current status of cryptocurrency in general they are not much progressing. I really do wish these giant online markets will also open to cryptocurrency as a mean of payment.

I don't think that it would be much different in 2019 than it is now. If it is going to be some sort of payment method it should be easy to use for everyone and with crypto at this stage it is not. Crypto non-users are much bigger community than we are, they should get in possession of coins so they could use it... Sounds little complicated. It will change by years, not in 2019.

I also think so.It's still too early to say that there will be great changes will take place in 2019 seeing the market is still in bearish trend.Bitcoin as a payment method might only be fully achieved once there will be a mass adoption that will take place.And it will only happen if all the people learn to open their minds for bitcoin.

Progress is being made actually, I believe in no distant time from now Cryptocurrency would be generally accepted as a medium of payment for goods and services.
If this is achieved, user participation in Cryptocurrency would be increased.

I'm not surprised when I found out that bitcoin can now be a mode payment to buy goods and services. Customers and consumers deserve better transactions and that's why they became interested to use bitcoins.

Due to the rapidly growth of the cryptocurrencies, there are now merchants who willing to accept it as medium of exchange. The only reason why there are few business that are afraid to accept cryptocurrencies because of its volatility. I am sure that they can manage the risks if they fully understand how it works.

Paying for goods and services are what we really desires for public adoptions.  Bitcoin will come to light and be used by everyone if it can become stable like money.  I believe that blockchain technology is far better than any for of payment during transactions but it is somehow not stable.

I'd like to know more about marketplaces' processes. How goes the payment? Is there a possibility to track the package?

Recently I bought a compact Fujifilm camera on MT, the seller easily makes contact, which is very pleased. In addition, easy payment.

There are several payment options, but I chose the most suitable one for myself. The main point is that you don’t transfer the currency immediately to the seller, but create a smart contract. You throw a crypt on a smart contract, it is stored there until the moment you receive the goods, as soon as you confirm receipt - the crypt will be sent to the seller. If we talk about tracking, both sides are watching the movement of goods and the release of funds to the seller.

This payment system reminds me of escrow-deals. Three parties take part in such a transaction: the seller, the escrow service and the buyer. But the essence is the same, the money is finally transferred to the seller’s account only upon confirmation of receipt of the goods. As for me, it makes no sense to bother with the bank, MT and so easy payment.

I read the discussion and have a question. What cryptmarketplaces are reliable there? Was it worth investing in crypto at all and buying goods using it?

Honestly, I can't imagine life without paper bills.

Speaking of reliability, you can consider marketplays such as OpenBazaar, ModuleTrade and bitify. MT, though recently on the market, has already managed to recommend itself.

Is it worth investing? It's up to you. That way of purchasing goods could be suitable for one and useless for another. Personal preferences, that's how it works.

What about the fact that crypto marketplaces have some items you are not able to buy in stock markets?

You have to pay fees for the escrow, that's not always an option. Smart contracts are friendlier in this point.

I think a lot of new stores are going to open for bitcoin as a means of making payment on their platform and at that it will further enhance and increase the market capitalization for bitcoin because it will increase the demand for bitcoin.

Here are examples of crypto marketplaces: Openbazaar, Modultrade, Purse, Landhodler, eGifter

I think it will be difficult for countries that have not legalized bitcoin, in my country there were many cafes which facilitated bitcoin payments, but because it was not legal, they were advised not to accept payments using btc. of course, if violated there will be a law that is implemented, I only hope that this year BTTC will be on the stock exchange

yes, but it's mostly online, but in the form of offline, we still find very few people who use crypto as a payment tool. well, but I think the rapid development of crypto will make it a pretty good payment method.

I think that would be very much in demand. But it is necessary to create mechanisms for payment to occur quickly and with a low commission and a stable exchange rate of cryptocurrency. So far this is difficult to implement, but many companies are already integrating Bitcoin into their financial system. And many of these companies are fairly large online retailers such as Newegg and Overstock. Of course, everything is just beginning, and payment mechanisms will be improved. It is possible that soon Bitcoin will be able to pay in cafes or restaurants.

Many businesses are still reluctant to accept Bitcoin as a payment. They still find it expensive and risky. I think regulation is something that might help with that. But with time more and more people will want to pay with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies so businesses will have to adjust and payment models will improve and become more inovative and user friendly so I'm not afraid for Bitcoin as a payment method.

making bitcoin as a means of payment means making it a currency, it can be done with the sophistication of technology, everything can happen, but I'm sure now, everything applies only to the community, not yet used freely, because it's difficult, there are still many countries that can't accepts bitcoin as a currency and accepts it only as an investment asset, because it's too regulatory default.
For this year in the future, certainly there are no clear predictions, the market is still at a place, there is no sign that prices will rise, while FUD and other negative news are increasing, to be an investment asset, I am still a leader, bitcoin is able to attract new investors especially to be a currency, for now it all feels far away

Yes agree, we have to wait, but when is that time? It's very difficult to answer. Public confidence in crypto is decreasing, and of course, it will hinder this goal. At present, there may be more shops that accept payment with cryptocurrency, but it is not a guarantee for crypto recovery this year. Market recovery is the key to the problem.

everything can happen along with the development of the jan and the most important time now is the problem of the legality of crypto currency that is very much needed if legality can occur any payment system will be easily implemented

This year I do not think that there will be any big changes on the issue of using cryptocurrency as a means of payment. The price of cryptocurrency has now fallen, the activity of investors as well. The high price volatility of cryptocurrency does not help it to be widely used to pay when paying for goods and services.
In general, it depends on whether the cryptocurrency will be legalized in most states and what its official status will be. While the stage of legalization of cryptocurrency will not pass, it is too early to talk about it on a global scale.

Let's think logically. The use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment will be massive as soon as there is more confidence in it. And trust will be when the course of the coins will be stable and adjusted.

It sounds good, of course, but the cryptocurrency will be regulated for a long time, since each country has its own views on this matter. Some perceive it as money and others as property.

Pretty good idea but not all investors/merchants are willing to take risks in doing this idea specially during this bear season and since can be able to tell when will this season be over, its quite difficult for them to dip their hands on this. Nobody wants to lose in business so they would better choose something that's already been tested and proven, fiat.

We need the lightning network, it is as simple as that, as soon as the price of bitcoin goes up the network gets very busy and you need to pay huge transaction fees to get a confirmation in a decent amount of time, however even getting a confirmation in 10 minutes on average is not good enough, if we want bitcoin to be used to buy goods we need this process to be many times faster and until that happens I do not see massive adoption happening at all.

It will be regulated for some reasons but crypto is crypto, we can use it without regulation and I think it will just depend on what country you are living.

And what we need to expect is that there will be more people that will start using it few years from now. It's popularity is unstoppable and knowledge about it by the people is growing.

in general - yes, crypto is crypto and it could not be regulated totally.
still if it is not regulated - it will not be used as a payment method in offline.

Well if we're talking about 2019, such use of crypto would be limited. Aside from lack of regulation, it's still fluctuating a lot to be used as a regular means for doing transactions. In time of course we'll get there with the regulations in place and i think it's going to be a very productive bitcoin onwards.

for me what ever a change to a cryptocurrency now and no matter how long it takes from the bitcoin method I will accept, because for me nothing else to replace a bitcoin crypto will remain the same it's strong. so if the crypto of 2019 is going to be an even product payment, it's better to have it, so that a bitcoin crypto will change.

The times when people paid bitcoin's for pizza passed long ago. Currently people are concentrated on cryptos storage and trading in search of profit. Many people expecting prices for crypto will fly to the moon and that's the reason of why Noone hurry to exchange their coins on goods. This year won't be different.

Well i think it is a very good news that cryptocurrencies are being used to make purchases. After all that was the sole aim of Satoshi. This year will be a good year to increase the adoption of cryptocurrencies in making payments. Samsung has confirmed the in-built cryptocurrency wallet in their new Samsung Galaxy 10

but for this year many predict that starting in the middle of the year, arga will begin to rise. we can see now, where seming sees the green market. so I hope that many people transact using crypto, thus increasing the price

Cryptocurrency  as a payment method for goods and services is something that makes things easy, convenient and time effecient so why would I be using fiat just to fall in line to pay bills and get robbed? Security is one of the most common issue here not volatililty. Though merchants are looking into crypto as unstable asset but I think they are going to be adopting crypto as payment and what interesting here is that they already did as early as 2014 until now and that is an advantage for all cryptocurrency users worldwide.

Now many companies are launching their own coin for product purchases and this demand will kept increase. We can easily find the real value in it, as long as if the company has good reputation and their product are really worth able and that's why many companies are launching their token as security tokens.

Some companies already accept bitcoin as mode of payment, but since the value of bitcoin and other altcoins are increasing, they become a hodlers. Though there are still someone who are willing to use their bitcoin especially in gambling.

I think this year will be different because we will see many people trying to use crypto. I agree that the price will increase and on the other side, the adoption will continue. And if right now people are concentrated with storage and trading, they will still use bitcoin for making a payment. But I think if bitcoin is used as the payment, it will make people become confused because bitcoin price always changes at any time.

I count on Bakikt launch
I have ben reading very good article about Bakkt and i am Bakkt big fan
Posting that article below it is really worth to read

http://fortune.com/2019/01/14/bakkt-acquisition-consumer-payments/

Bakkt aims to make Bitcoin trading safe for Wall Street. Now, a new acquisition confirms that the cryptocurrency trading company is speeding its plans to revolutionize the way people pay for everything from coffee to cars.

From the start, Bakkt has harbored a second, parallel goal: To transform the retail payments system where merchants pay steep fees for every dollar you and I pay at the checkout counter. “The evolution of blockchain technology opens new possibilities for digital assets to serve as an an efficient payments mechanism at the consumer and merchant level,” Loeffler tells Fortune

So after reading that i see that Bakkt will be something great and can be real game changer

I also think that LN will cause more merchant adoption
Rest is in the hands of bitcoiners

Do bitcoiners will like to spend his bitcoins or rather keep them and count on price rise

especially if it is still based on fiat currency for the value of an item, of course it will change in price when using bitcoin. but for the beginning I think I should be used to it

Crypto as a payment method may occur in the future. But for 2019 it may not be the right time because prices are very down and still in a bearish trend, so this is not the right time to become crypto as a payment method and at least have to wait for prices to return to normal. The most important thing to make the payment method must have good security, this is more important. But there is good news in my country, which legalized crypto as a payment method some time ago, maybe this is a little progress that has been achieved even though not in the right time.

in fact to make payments using the cryptocurrency method and pay using the bitcoin currency it has its own bad side and positive side, but when conditions are unstable like this then it has a very high risk because the exchange value is always changing.

It would be interesting to see that situation to repeat itself

And how well Lightning Network would behave under such stress, i.e. how many people would actually be encouraged to use it in real life. But right now with measly 700 bitcoins used for payment channels, it doesn't look very promising on this front (and it remains to be seen whether these coins are actually used for anything)

If things were to repeat themselves, we would likely get into what we had already been in with insanely high fees in the past. To put differently, we may not see mass use of this technology until there is mass adoption already under way. So it is not like you see it (i.e. no mass adoption before LN)

Well I think fluctuation will not come across for the payment resource, so I can see in future payments with crypto will be so reliable and it will be better way to buy goods than we are using now a day with money, we are in modern age mate and we really need digital currency to move with time, crypto payment will save our time as well our money.

Many countires hae crypto as payment for tax payment and the country like Japan where you can even buy a car with bitcoin so it is evolving as a currency too but if we want the bitcoin to be a real currency it need to be accepted in small hops then only we can avoid fiat.

Eventually, they will adapt to cryptocurrency but for now, to save their businesses they will have to choose fiat first. Although, paying digital currency in other countries has started already and they don't have a problem with it. Entering blockchain and adopting to crypto is a new kind of business which requires merchants too.

for this year payment methods are still not using cryptocurrency, but at least this year more governments will legalize crypto as a means of payment, so that their future will remain credible, besides, of course more investors will believe in crypto. and as soon as possible crypto can become a fiat companion in the payment system

Agree with you after acceptance and legalization of crypto currency in some popular countries it is increasing as payments sources because it has fast transaction and it is so easy as well. There is no extra and additional cutting will be taken from your card you will be able to pay safely and it also saves our time which can be use constructively.

It is really the right time to become an active user!  Cryptocurrency market is trying to survive and I do believe that it is currently too volatile to be as money.  It has to became very stable and adoptable for us to be able to used it for the payment for good and services.  Online and offline business cannot really used it because you will not know if it will grow or not and if it goes down as it is doing now there is no way you will not lose.

Currently, we can pay for almost any product, as well as various services with the help ofcryptocurrency. It is convenient, fast and only requires a transaction fee. Therefore, with each passing day, the adoption of cryptocurrencies will increase, and will be the integration and strengthening of links between cryptocurrency and fiat payment services.

For now we have to be honest, it's not going as fast as we want it, but yes adoption is taking place and crypto awareness is everywhere.
The only issue now is instability and unpredictability which affects cryoto as a form or medium of Payment,but right now you can purchase close to anything with the bitcoin via the internet.
But we need to bring such service nearer to us,in our local stores and bars,shops and warehouses,if bitcoin can get in there, then we are making huge progress

Yes.We know we are close to mass adoption for bitcoin already seeing that there are already available goods to purchase in the internet but it would be more useful on the part of the people if they will see bitcoin as a medium of exchange in the local areas like the nearest fastfood chains or department stores.I think in the year 2019 there will be more bitcoin development that will take place.

Do we know that? I hope so, but mass adoption is still a very long way to go. When I would like to buy something in the internet I think it should be paid in Bitcoin but most normal websites don't offer such purchases in Bitcoin. I hope they will do it in future but I don't see them move towards it right now. It's still too difficult for them to implement and also a risk.

But I'm confident to see adoption slowly appearing.  :)

That is a concern for users and sellers, prices are too volatile to be used as a payment method. I hope there will be a system or platform that deals with price fluctuations, so it will not make lose to buyers and sellers, because I think many people are interested in crypto payments nowadays

In fact, it is not difficult at all

They don't even have to code anything themselves, apart from the frontend which would allow their buyers to choose a payment method. But they likely already have it anyway as there are many payment options available even without cryptocurrencies in mind (e.g. PayPal, bank cards, cash, etc). Technically, it all comes down to installing a third party plugin, the one supplied by the payment processor which makes cryptocurrency payments possible. And there are no cryptocurrency related risks for merchants with this approach

more and more people will use cryptocurrency as one of the safest, fastest and cheapest shipping costs alternatives, while growing years the development of technology will become more sophisticated and many companies will start using blockchain technology to implement cryptocurrency payments.

Here in the Philippines, there are few stores who are already accepting cryptocurrency as a payment and there are no any problems in using it as a transaction, so i think it will really be effective if every stores start to accept cryptocurrency and it will be helpful for us to use cryptocurrency for our daily lives to support our basic needs.

I think there could be chance that cryptocurrency will be use as a payment method to buy goods because cryptocurrency is getting more popular and there are now few stores who accepts crypto in every country.

First of all crypto is a online currencies and there are many selling platform that already accepting crypto but in the goods i think there are many time to research if this is good to be part of purchasing the goods. Yes we need to become active users because crypto is not only money that you already know the price. I think this year many online business approving crypto in there platform for payment method but i dont know if crypto can buy goods in supermarket this year but i always sure someday crypto can purchase goods in the market.

Day by day the using methods of bitcoin are increasing. The users and investors are also rising. As many new factors are adding on cryptocurrency, people are showing interest to use it. Hopefully in 2019, many more opportunities will come to us.

Hopefully adoptions will cover all over the world, as there's a lots of businesses who also studying about adopting crypto currency, we are all hoping
that it will materialized and more people will be able to learned about this new digital currency  helping them to much quicker and easier daily payment
process.

However we help with the adoption through wide spreading it takes more time than we calculate. In this regard we cannot have a perfect and calculated outcome from bitcoin with reference to the adoption.

Even now if people learn about bitcoin it takes time for them to get into the real world usage of bitcoin on different Marketplaces as well on trading and other beneficial needs.

Now if amazon would start accepting bitcoin for their customers purchases this would push the method of payment to extreme levels towards cryptocurrency as a legitimate form of payment for everyday goods.
I have heard in the last month there has been talks behind the scenes from bezos in researching more about how they could work with a payment processor in accepting some sort of crypto so they would be able to receive the funds in usd.
But nothing has come out of it up until now.
Hopefully later in the year we will have some progress in their stance on cryptocurrency being accepted by them and thus bring forward the rest of the retail industry to do the same.

There is some sufficient traders tolerating the said installment strategy. The issue isn't on the purchaser's side yet on the moving side, as most are as yet reluctant to incorporate digital forms of money into their checkout pages. Bitcoin is quick, secure and solid in itself, however the cost is the thing that makes the contention for generally vendors. Market capitalization and high cost alone wouldn't take care of business, you likewise need value solidness in the event that you need the vendors pouring in.

You are not very successful, as many here. Bitcoin, like the rest of the cryptocurrencies are now at the bottom, and when it began to emerge is not clear. Payment for goods using cryptocurrency is theoretically possible, but this requires a more stable rate.
Of course, the potential for cryptocurrency growth is necessary, and cryptocurrency for everyday life is not enough. I think the next wave of growth will begin.

If officially some other countries does legalize the btc this will boost the things up as their citizens will start accepting and making payment in btc for the daily needs as well. it will also increase the digital footprint which is the future and the easy way to make payment.

We will see the progress as time goes and sure there will be new merchants accepting bitcoin, there is a slow adoption rate than what we anticipated in the beginning because of the increase in transaction fees and delays but right now everything is working smooth and hopefully we will see more merchants accepting bitcoin and i expect bitcoin to be the currency for online transactions for the masses.

indeed at this time the conditions and conditions are experiencing a decline in its development and as investors we must be able to see all the opportunities that will be obtained in investment with crypto currencies and the risks that are obtained are very large we must be able to look safe in investment

The usage of cryptocurrency can help  in the progress of bitcoin and other altcoins. If demands could even go higher,  people who invested could earn a lot from it. As of now it was slowly moving back up but it will be moving even better if people will use it in their daily purchase of goods. In our region such use was not so common but time will come I know it will.

 I really like this idea. crypto should be used as a currency to pay for service costs. If we travel to other countries, we don't need to exchange money. We only need to scan the QR code or decrypt the crypto card, the payment will be completed. It is much faster and more convenient.

Statistics show that the number of Bitcoin ATMs is raising. I hope that the utility will be increased. In this way the curiosity of new users will be increased and new users who want to be integrated will appear. I hope that the amounts of transactions will also increased, because new merchants are starting to accept this way of payment. The good news is that we have a lot of enthusiasts and this works like a trend which maintains the notoriety.

Actually the present market conditions (bear) of cryptos does not hinder any payment system using cryptos what matters most is the actual value of the goods rated in US dollar while purchasing it at the present value of the crypto while its preferable to hodl now than to spend it on goods when fiat as an alternative means of purchasing goods and services is available.

Thanks a nice discussion topic. Of course, until this time, the cryptocurrency sector has become well known.  one out of every three people knows what a cryptocurrency is. this year we had a very bad bear market yes  my idea of ​​the next years will laugh everyone's face.

Of course, yes, I have seen some stores that accept Bitcoin, ETH and Dash, this is something very positive, because we are making use of technology with problem solving, and this is exactly what makes the economy of people grow. Not only the ease of the technology, but also that interest in how the movements in the Bitcoin market are going, which, its volatility makes this very interesting, and the owners of many establishments know and are clear that at the moment Bitcoin rise to impressive levels, your profits will multiply to levels that they would not have thought.

I think it is good to experience everything if you are investing your money in bitcoin I am sure you are keen and excited to know how we can use it to pay for good payment,  in this modern age crypto payment will be popular because people are talking positive as crypto payment is fast, easy and reliable payment resource ever.

Yes, the using of cryptocurrency is more convenient than fiat currency. I think in the future the cash is going to disappear and cryptos are growing to be a primary currency of people in the world. And the payment will be faster and safer.

This is a very wrong question because as you see everytime bitcoin is getting popular so what can you expect from 2019 regarding to bitcoin payments? Of course grow, there is no way you'll see decrease in it. There are a lot of users who prefer to pay with bitcoin and you'll find them in every category. So for most businesses, every customer is worthy, why to lose them especially when we can only profit and integrating bitcoin payment has zero "side effect"?

I think 2019 has no great progress and still not worth for crypto to use as payments method. Crypto need to recover first and make some development to attract more investors to help crypto become a payment methods for goods and services.

I feel like it is being adopted more and more by large companies. The fact that big banking and places like PayPal are beginning to fear bitcoin and it's tech and ability to be used as a payment method can only help Bitcoin as being accepted as a legitimate payment method! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5115120.0) I can't wait for the day when a mere satoshi is worth 10 cents :) Yes, Bitcoin $100,000!!!!

https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companies-stores-take-bitcoins/

always being able to take advantage of the situation that occurs makes us able to get profits, krypto traders never think negatively about prices that are declining. in 2019 we still hope that bitcoin can be used for each of our transactions, but the price is not good enough we should be able to postpone it first so we can avoid big losses. because we are sure that the price reduction is temporary.

It is good to have lots of options to pay in which we can choose to use fiat or crypto but i think more crypto users will still choose to pay in fiat specially that the market is still in difficult. Maybe 2019 will be more challenging year for Crypto after it survived the last year market trend.

I think for development, not experiencing a decline, the decline only occurs at prices, while developments always move forward because crypto is the technology of the future. Regardless of the volatile market conditions, bitcoin payments can still be done, all I want is regulation for this, so that more merchants that accept bitcoin

In case the government would pay more attention to the legal regulation of cryptocurrencies,  this whole system would gain much more
popularity I believe.

sure. As long as crypto is regulated fairly poor, the majority of people is simply
unaware it can be used safely. The ones who use this are traders, devs and those whose project are based on Blockchain.
Again, the majority has no idea what crypto is about.

Agree, some still don't use their bank accounts not to mention cryptocurrencies like BTC or ETH :D
 Luckily, it doesn't mean all those bitcoin ATMs, or a cup of coffee bought for some BTC is waste of time.  This is gradually getting more popular among a broad audience.  This process is rather slow though.

The same goes with the first phones appeared on the market lol. Remember those old good days when we were hooked on finding out how all those text messages, ringtones, and emojies things functioned. And well How actually they hit each home. First it's your neighbour who bought the thing, then it's me, then mother, then dad, etc. And what we have now? - Not to have a phone is like not to have a fridge in your kitchen.  See  where I am going? - history repeats itself.

I think we need some crypto enthusiasts who will preach to people that crypto is the currency of the future. The thing is they must be able to explain this to old ladies and children even. I mean in simple terms.

Sure, online courses and the catch phrase: become the best  casino player just in 14 days xD

It is not very hard to make them understand because it is now famous and our new generation as well as old generation knows about it, if we will once tell them how to use it I am sure it will be no more hard for them, it is advantage and additional benefit for us that we can buy and sell with bitcoin but for some it is only investment, but we are blessed to use it as payment.

Nope, I am afraid you didn't get me right. I am speaking about the use of crypto for common citizens.
I don't think a housewife would take any advantage of knowing how to trade. The thing is crypto as a payment method: buying goods, some products at a local store, paying for cleaning etc.

Well,  this would be great, indeed. Crypto all together is safe and damn fast to transact. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for too long for that to become everyday reality.

I think it is possible I have read that there was a supermarket or a groccery store that is accepting crypto as a payment,
And there are some place where we could use crypto as a regular currency .

Speaking of the stores that accept crypto, there are some out there. Say, Modultrade. Easy-to-use, even for housewives :D

Progress in that area is not going to happen that fast, in my mind I am ready to wait decades to be able to use bitcoin to buy the products I need without any trouble, that may seem like a lot of time for some but I am realistic, bitcoin is simply too advanced for many people to understand and unless they are forced to do it by the circumstances they will not make an attempt to do it.

I am ready to accept Crypto as a payment but it will not be suitable for a all of us so we can definitely wait for the changes happened to this field then only the payment and the transaction will fully accepted by the people to get connected with it so I think it will be properly working some years.

Right now, many online marketplace receiving crypto as payment and i think its good for crypto community. Its need more time if we want buying goods in local merchant with crypto because many government still ban crypto as currency

The pace has already been set by some of the valuable coins on the market like Bitcoin, Litecoin, XRP, Ethereum etc in the purchase of goods and services in stores like overstock.com, newsegg, shopify stores etc.Here, Bitcoin is used to purchase mobile airtime and I'm quite optimistic that in this year, 2019, the number of both online and offline shops that accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment will increase incredibly.

So are you about to start up a business that accepts crypto as a payment method? If you’re going to add crypto as a payment method then it shouldn’t be the only option there is. You should also have many other options available ,since not everyone trusts cryptocurrency due to it not having any buyer’s protection and lots of bad sellers are now using it as a way to wicked their buyers, because they know there is no refund to it. ::)

I wouldn’t choose cryptocurrency as an option if I’m buying stuffs online. It is not safe to use it as a buyer and moreover , cryptocurrency is not the only fast option there is, there are many others. Lots of buyer’s wouldn’t send you the exact thing you ordered for and sometimes they never deliver what you ordered and in this situation all you can do is ask for a refund ,which won’t be possible if you made use of cryptocurrency.

This is an online type of a store  like Ebay or Amazon but based on crypto.
I would even consider this as a crypto enthusiast among other stores.

Marketplaces are the only place at now where crypto is used as a payment method

Many online stores and companies are already accepting payment in cryptocurrency, I also saw in some countries how already in various stores you can pay for something with cryptocurrency, the cryptocurrency is just developing and it takes time for the whole world to switch to the possibility of paying for various goods and services.

So may it be:) Let's hope the cryptomarket will succeed.  Exchanges are not the way out, especially in tumes of crisis.

That is a problem that can actually be done but regarding the regulation of each country is certainly different. there are those who forbid and support, the state must support if indeed they want payment by cryptocurrency

Hello, anyone knows about the fee that ModulTrade charges? Is there any?

Yes, but the tiny one.  About 1% as far as I rememeber, not more.

majority of the countries today are now legalizing the use of cryptos but the guy above is correct  . majority of people are still didnt know how to use crypto because they find it hard.  we must teach them especially those who are old enough and younger people as well because they are the ones that are having a hard time to understand crypto  . we must only use simple terms and avoid using technical ones  .

 crypto as a payment method is now better on 2019 compare to previous years because alot of stores and merchants are now already accepting it  .

I've read the articles on cryptocurrencies and got really interested in that.  No boundaries and dependence on location. same possibilitues for everybody.

Did you know it's possible to buy goods in AppStore for BTC?! I was really impressed

Yes, btc payment is also available at Microsoft, WordPress, Reddit, Dell, Tesla, Subway..New announcements every month.
think the list will only be getting bigger.

What about such shops in Russia?

I heard about these ones, dude. Headquarters - a coffee shop in Moscow,  Another coffee shop in the mid east of Russia, some restaurants,
I am hoping Burger King will take its promise and add BTC as a payment method by the end of 2019.

It's been said some clients of public houses can pay for the services in BTC
need to check this out lol :D

Crypto will be a payment method for goods but it will not happen in 2019. Crypto popularities growing but still a very low percentage of people aware of it.

Right now it is very difficult to use cryptocurrencies in our daily transactions in order to purchase goods.
We need to solve some other things first such as scalability and I think that we need a coin dedicated to this usage. Bitcoin is for me a way of storing value and I would never use it in order to make daily transactions because I would feel that I buy milk with gold.

what I expect from this year is that crypto can experience a price increase again so that many companies are willing to accept bitcoin as a payment tool, because from yesterday bitcoin still cannot be adopted by large companies

Since the beginning of crypto, there have been many developments, especially bitcoin. We can see the development of crypto as a currency with several bitcoin ATMs in several countries. With the existence of the ATM, it indicates that crypto will soon become a new trend to carry out various transactions, provided that the other bitcoin or altcoin are legalized by the government in their respective countries.

Right.There are already numerous atm machines right now that have been posted in different countries so i guess this is just a preparation that we are heading for bitcoin's mass adoption in the future.Hopefully 2019 will be a great year for bitcoin through seeing the price recover from its bear trend which will definitely attract more people and even investors to believe in bitcoin again.

accepting Bitcoin as a payment method is indeed very good, but still not received by many people, for various reasons,

I have read the news that in some countries you can use Bitcoin as a method of payment for goods and services such as in the Philippines and Brazil,

in 2019 I really hope that there will be many online stores that accept payments via Bitcoin so that Bitcoin will be increasingly in demand.

-- pretty few competitors.

Oh no mate, that's where you are wrong. That will never happen again because people are usually coming in because projects lacks something that the other have. People are finding solutions for their dilemma.

I think its a great idea. Since people are already going cashless with these online payment methods such as WeChat Pay and the others, we will be seeing more I think.

In the forum many transactions are held with bitcoin payments so I don't agree with that. Widely, yes for some reasons they just can't accept bitcoin because they are not yet ready for it.
It's not just with those countries, many countries now are becoming a crypto haven.

Is there a way to cancel transactions and withdraw the funds?

Unfortunately, not Which is why be extra attentive when generating any type of a transcation on Blockchain.

I hope it will be realized soon. I really hope that I can buy games in Steem and top up using Crypto. through the platform itself, so you don't have to leave the house, everything can be done easily. isn't this what we have always wanted?

This is one the reason crypto is not that popular. Lots of people use it for bad reasons
and, say, the forgers use it as well.

You were able to buy games with crypto at Steam in the past (and it is Steam of Valve, not Steem of Steemit)

And what d'ya think? They disabled this option and abandoned their support for cryptocurrencies some time ago. The official version stated it was due to insane volatility of Bitcoin prices (or whatever other coins they had been accepting). But myself I'm more inclined to think it was rather due to lack of demand from players as with sufficient demand it is easy to hedge against volatility without incurring a lot of financial overhead. On the other hand, with low demand this overhead may actually become prohibitively expensive

What forgers are you talking about? Lots of scams yea

If crytpo actively used as payment system the price actually doesn't matter. Say, you are selling t-shirts for BTC, and the price of 1 t-shirt is equivalent to $20. It would be 0.005 BTC per item, if BTC was $4k, or it would be 0.0005 BTC per item if BTC was $40k. The only thing that matters is stability because no one wants ending up with 20% less of the profit if Bitcoin drops 20% before they can exchange it for fiat. And even that situation is manageable because you might as well have the reverse scenario when your profits become higher. So, in the long run the ups and downs compensate each other, and your business doesn't suffer from accepting crypto but rather benefits from that because you have additional customers who wouldn't buy from you otherwise.

Fake crypto exchangers are pretty popular nowadays. The service is made as a true one, but the rates are sp nice that it feels wrong. But thre are some who still buy on that and give thier money. The moment the money has been trasacted the scammers are gone.
So many people have suffered form the scheme. Be careful.

I got scared even..

This because cryptocurrency is still considered as new but if it will be consistent in implementing or adaptation to its users or the community then in the near future cryptocurrency will definitely be an option for payment methods and not only that because there could be more way cryptocurrency will be used.

That's a flawed logic if you ask me

Basically, you are assuming two mutually exclusive conditions, i.e. Bitcoin being a full-fledged currency and Bitcoin not being a full-fledged currency. If we assume the former (which you start off with), then you don't need to exchange bitcoins for fiat as that would imply Bitcoin failing as a currency in its own right, i.e. it being only an inferior proxy or substitute for some other currency, say, the US dollar. If Bitcoin becomes a real "all-inclusive" currency, there won't be a need to exchange it for anything other than goods and services

It is about user that how he wants to use it and how he moves with bitcoin or any other crypto currency, before investing in crypto currency it is very important to know how can we use it and how can we get profit from it, try to buy low but then hold, using it not good according to me but if somebody want to use it is really reliable way to buy anything.

I think some businesses in Russian have started accepting Bitcoin and they have even claimed it to be legal.

Earlier this year it was recorded that Russian farm cooperative Lavkalavka started collecting Bitcoin as payment  for the goods in their shops, cafes and even in the market at Moscow region of Khimki and i am also aware that this is applicable to their online stores.

They said it’s an opportunity they want to give to everyone to purchase with Bitcoin.  Also heard some Restaurants are now accepting Bitcoin as payment in Russian headquarters

There will be lots of problems are there for Crypto to be a better currency as a payment but still there are lots of option available to make payments using Bitcoin but it not fully completed but the future may be some legalization will definitely had a chance about complete payments.

Crypto as currency in merchant must be need government regulation and so far, many country ban bitcoin if used for payment in merchant. Need more time for crypto to be regulated by government and i think it will happen in next several years.

no later than 2021 cryptocurrency will accept as digital currency in several countries.much of government now consider cryptocurrency as source income if they regulate it.and ofcourse if they doing it they will also allow the crypto usage as currency.

This problem is very serious one. No to be involved and be a victim of the sceme follow the next steps:
Check all  websites and services on which you will make a purchase / exchange to BTC;
Do not make transactions directly with suspicious people there;
Do not download suspicious software either;
Ignore the promises of any fortune to be made in 5 minute time

fingers crossed we're in a safe place now

This year is not yet too early, for payment of a cryptocurrency, perhaps someone will accept as a payment method, very few people use a cryptocurrency, you need more time for such payment methods.

No need to wait for that year because as of now crypocurrency is already being used as a form of currency  not only today but also on the previous years of crypto it is already being use by many users to purchase or pay for services online .  government didn also consider crypto as a source of income but the people are  .  government itself is already rich , he doesnt need a crypto anymore to earn .

Payment for using Crypto in my opinion is very good and worthy of being applied by many merchants, very simple and not through third parties, aka peer to peer.
Only the level of public understanding of crypto money must be educated and there are pilot projects so that when applied it does not experience many problems.
Most importantly the state must legalize bitcoin, because bitcoin cannot be used for payments as long as it is illegal. The public is afraid of doing activities that are considered illegal by the state.

No doubt, crypto currency has changed our way of payment method, and it is too much easy and cheap for every users of crypto. It will be damage of fiat currency because people are happy with crypto currency and they are avoiding to transfer money with fiat. That's why banks are not happy with crypto. But it is other topic. But still it is worthy method and i rely in future definitely it will get more achievement of progress.

It`s not changed yet, it`s a process that will take some time. Every merchant needs to work under the law of the country where he works, some countries doesnt have laws about crypto yet, merchant is free to accept crypto for his goods, if he wants that. Banks are not happy with crypto, that`s true, crypto is taking a piece of cake from them. Now people don`t need to spend money on high transaction fees, they can simply use crypto. We are living in the times of changes, they are even close to an end. I believe that in the end entire world will use crypto, so calculate alone where are we now and where we are going.

I think the cryptto currency fee cannot be said to be cheap. especially for now. but I think with the increasing technological development, cryptocurrency will be the solution for payment instruments later

Crypto transactions are irreversible, once you have sent them you can't reverse it or retrieve it unless the receiver will send it back to you. Some transactions on the Ethereum network are failing and it's about an issue through contract addresses so that's the chance that your transaction can be canceled. Bitcoin isn't like PayPal that you can reverse transactions and asks PayPal's management to cancel any transaction that you have done.

Hello. I saw an article about the A-EUR partnership with MT, they've added their token onto the platform. What do you think about it guys?

I think that's a big step to success. A new generation platform that will be available to anyone. must be a success for both buyers and sellers I think.

Yes, I agree. I reckon there will be more sellers on the market, the currency will be quite helpful to quite a few. Same goes with the buyers that would buy goods on regular marketplaces.

Maybe, the partnership with Augmint will has a great influence on this in the near future. More options, more items.
Look at the thread, lots of us are waiting for it. I mean if there are more options there are more customers.

The main thing here is to tell others about the platform. They need cool  advertising.

I feel the best way to use cryptocurrency for buying and selling is within the crypto ecosystem. It will be pretty hard to get government approve the use of cryptocurrency allover their countries unrestricted.  Even if they do they will eventually use it as bargaining tool to get what they want from developers. If you refuse to cooperate they will kick you out of their countries.

This happens, every government is corrupt. From my understanding there are governments that want to grow on the digital platform. Those countries have already adopted cryptocurrency as well the blockchain technology. Globally online services with bitcoin acceptance have increased a lot. The same hasn't increased on physical stores where we do majority of the shopping. In the future this could happen as the present generation is almost adoptive to technology from birth.

Not too much it is famous now and it is now able to use for selling and buying goods, we are expecting growth so we will have to keep our mind positive in this matter, there are so many plat forums which are being use 24/7 for bitcoin betterment, I am sure coming age will reduce the risk and it will be safer more than this with time, we shall go for purchasing now.

That's right, but you are talking about the future all of us here set our hearts on. But unfortunately right now Bitcoin is far from being an "all-inclusive" currency. We have to deal with the reality we find ourselves in. Shop owners can't pay rent in BTC, and they can't pay for the most part of services with this currency either. And yet it is possible to actively use it, and I tried to explain how in my post.

Actually, I got your point

But still, you are basically thinking up the situation described (with your t-shirts), I mean assuming a situation which is not very likely to occur in real life as it is not natural or organic, economically speaking. In other words, given the circumstances, a particular merchant or seller is going to accept crypto (directly, without an intermediary) if he just happens to like it. It is simply not worth the effort otherwise

On the other hand, a big retailer may actually opt for this option provided there is enough demand for cryptopayments (that's basically why the burden of mass adoption is in fact on consumers, not merchants as such). In that scenario he can actually take great pains and accept the overhead of hedging against volatility himself, but then your whole point becomes kinda irrelevant

You are right, but there is a possible way out, for example: the negotiation can be done in bitcoin terms, if the price of real estate at the bitcoin level is 10 BTC, people remain in that agreement and for legal and documentation purposes . It is manufactured in the local currency of the country, so it has no problem at the banking or government level.

In my country, in terms of business goods, everything must be in terms of the local currency, a document can not be in any foreign currency, because it would be invalidated and could be a risk of going to jail. So the solution for many lawyers is that.

And not only with real estate, also with movable assets, vehicles, among others. This happens because of the high inflation that exists, so we look for payment methods with more stable currencies, such as dollar, euros and bitcoin.

For this 2019 is expected to continue to prosper this type of business, because people know that their money will not lose value due to inflation, as time goes by, financial solutions will continue that way, since people are looking for security Even if Bitcoin suffers falls, many are clear that it is a deflationary economy and that the recovery will mean a progressive increase in its capital.

Electronic cash payments are being replicated in developing countries like the Philippines, Singapore and other countries. It is also a signal that blockchain technology is being appreciated by technology businesses and it will serve people in the future with high capabilities.
Currently many start-ups are still making bold ideas and want to edit more about the blockchain. Soon, you'll see a blockchain very complete.

What is the relationship between the corrupt government and cryptocurrency adoption? currently only a few countries legalize bitcoin, but that does not mean they adopt bitcoin as a legitimate currency. most of those countries see bitcoin as an asset, so it is still rare who accept payments with bitcoin

It would really be great thing indeed and I personally believe most stores who are very familiar with cryptocurrency world would have started integrating BTC as their payment method especially during this bear market. Though it will only be for those that are patient to keep the money paid in BTC for a while and hoping for the 2020 halving. Crypto is safe and transaction fast like every other online payments, might not really take so long to achieve this.

We never need to worry on seeing bitcoin as an asset because that must be the first step toward adopting bitcoins. Literally Mr.Satoshi has designed bitcoins in that way only. Recognizing bitcoin as a payment would be a second step but it would take more time as no one will be ready to spend their assets for cheaper prices ;).

What country are you from?

As it is essentially the same in my quarters. Technically, it may not be outright illegal to sell or buy an apartment for, say, US dollars as such, but I have yet to see someone actually denominating the contract price in dollars in a real estate purchase agreement, even though it is an accepted practice to pay with dollars while setting the sales price in the local currency. And I have also read about people paying with bitcoins for apartments, though I haven't yet met such individuals personally

As far as I know already now, many large online stores such as Newegg, Overstock accept Bitcoin for payment for goods. The mechanism is not yet very common among buyers, but I think that with the onset of a new bull market, payment using cryptocurrency will grow again. And as you understand, the number of large companies that will start accepting Bitcoin will also grow because no one wants to give up a growing market to competitors. When the information background around cryptocurrencies changes, the number of companies ready to work with cryptocurrencies will grow faster than mushrooms after rain.

Paying with bitcoin now a day is not a big deal, it is very easy to buy goods of our own needs with help of bitcoin, shops are allowing bitcoin as currency, which is no more hard because of bitcoin fast accessibility, we should buy when it is vendible and store for long term if want to earn with it for our better future because bitcoin has certainly a bright future as currency.

The online marketplaces' competitors are on their way :D MT's just launched a new token with the possibility of exchange to euro.

Yes, I was digging into this too. The fee is low enough to send the money. But I like the fact you won'y be needing a credit card anymore. This must be a nice turn-on factor for new users I believe.

How often are MT Auctions are held? I'm thinking about joining in some time in the future when I've more free funds.

If there is a great choice of the goods, A-EUR Market will def be one of the major competitors to regular e-commerce platforms

If there is a great choice of the goods, A-EUR Market will def be one of the major competitors to regular e-commerce platforms

i dont see any unique features for that incoming token that you are talking about  because i think other existing cryptos do already have that feature . there are cheap but good alts that you can use to send or recieve money without the need of credit card of course because cryptos are already a payment method  . exchanges and wallets nowadays do also have the feature to convert your cryptos onto a local currency ( fiat ) that you decide  . so whats the catch  ?

As any new business or idea, the shop needs advertising. In case ModulTrade is properly advertised it'll be able to outdo those online shops.

No matter how great all these Blockchain based marketplaces are, people will trust fiat online stores for quite a long time.

Crypto as a payment way for goods were used by people long back itself. As the years pass the adoption keeps increasing, along with the same there is need for something more effective than the present days banking services. To this cryptocurrencies were the one to fulfill the same. Years back itself this is into usage, even African people used to convert their local currencies to bitcoin and use it as their currencies were into inflation and it is impossible to take a huge fund with them.

I expect for 2019 that the acceptance of crypto will continue to rise and more and more people, online shops etc will accept it as a means of payment. Surely it will take some more years until we can pay everywhere with it. I don't expect any miracles of 2019 regarding the acceptance of cryptocurrencys, but as long as more and more people accept it, I'm satisfied for 2019.  ;)

I think every year more countries and stores or companies will legalize bitcoin as a means of payment. and in the future more and more people will be using bitcoin.
and this year it looks like the crypto market is starting to recover little by little the market is beginning to experience an increase. I hope this situation continues.

right, even though until now there has not been a pump, but the movement of bitcoin shows a gradual increase, and I hope that this can continue. with the growth of prices, it will certainly increase investor confidence

Not only investors but also businesses who will cater the service will also start eyeing with this system, crypto already gained lots of news both bad and good making awareness on it's existence so for sure it can be the token where many other establishments and businesses to begin working out with this other ways of payment process.

Of the many innovations that many projects bring, whether it's low fees, instant payments, and so on. the most important thing we want is the mass adoption of all merchants, all store accept bitcoin, that all what we very want! it will make using bitcoin much more useful

It may be a utility token

That is, it may serve a very specific purpose which general purpose cryptocurrencies simply can't do. But as you correctly noted, all modern altcoins aim to be cheap (in transaction costs) and fast (preferably instantly fast), so it is next to impossible to develop something new that would beat the competition hands down in this field. You need to come up with something that other coins don't have, and that is a daunting task on its own which requires both an extraordinary mind and extreme effort

Crypto payments nowadays are already been had a positive impact which leads to the adoptation of this kind of payment.  Since I do have some bitcoin and some other coins in my wallet, I can instantly buy some stuffs online that I badly needed.
This will bring some business to pay attention to this kind of payment, this will be a good start to finally expand their system.

In order for bitcoin to be used by more people around the world we will need that the confirmations are faster since it is unrealistic that people wait for hours just to get a confirmation if there is a huge number of transactions happening at that time so we will need the lightning network for the adoption of bitcoin to keep growing and the developers are taking their time to see that everything is working perfectly so until that happens I will not expect a huge number of people adopting bitcoin

People trust traditional ways of payments

I think we are about the change that.  To my knowledge, quite a few countries,say, UAE, India, Venezuela, are planning to introduce crypto.

Seems to be, every week. The don't post announcements here.

Not only states are introducing crypto now. Regular stores on their territories sell their goods for bitcoins.

Excactly, somebody have already mentioned Appstore and Microsoft

Just thought how my children would buy spaghetti for BTC lol. Well may be I am lucky enough too XD

I disagree if crypto is a currency, I prefer crypto is considered gold because in my country transactions using crypto are violations

It gonna be sorry with you mate, we are lucky that there is no such thing in my country and so we can enjoy crypto. It is sad in your part, crypto will have its purpose to consider and not just an investment at all but to be like of fiat currency. Many were using crypto already especially for bitcoin and that's supposed to be happen with.

I think let them have another opinion and you should not confuse the conversation of such people, I better understand if everyone has different opinions about interpreting digital currencies like this cryptocurrency.

I do not think so. Although crypto is not the perfect asset to measure the exact value of the crop, it is best for now, at least better than papaer.
Anyway, increase about adoption this year can be an prototype for its future use.

in my opinion all possibilities can happen and without anyone who can predict for sure the crypto currency payment system in my country cannot yet be done because the government still prohibits direct transactions with crypto currencies

You all are saying the marketplace of the future is so awesome, but has anyone of you bought a thing there huh?

hey, bought a backpack there.

What't the process?  the whole buy pay deliver thing.

You mean the payment and delivery process? Nothing unusual - you book an order, then given a trecking-number. 5 days of waiting and the delivery guy calls you to make all the arrangments. Well it's was convenient to deliver the product at work so the man went there. Just in a regular shop but wih lower delivery costs and in it's crypto based.

It will be very wise if they do it. However, today, you can use Bitcoin to buy many things, including real estate. I have heard, in France, some apartments are offered for Bitcoin.

the Crypto payment method will not win easily accepted by the people because there is lots of complication in this so if all this things has to be regulated with a proper guidance and only the people accepting it us like a payment way otherwise it will continuously confusing everyone to be a good payment way.

Marketplaces are not only purchases and goods, but also money opeartions.

So far I have not seen the regulation and in many countries there is a ban on crypto. If in 2019 nothing changes, we will not lead away progress.

and recent news, i heard 5 star hotel start accepting bitcoin as their payment.slowly but sure much merchants now accepting bitcoin , and it will make bitcoin demand rise alot.they thinking accepting cryptocurrency was the things that can't be avoided in near future.adoption will come and cryptocurrency usage will increase massively.

Excuse me?

on MT you can send A-EUR abroad with no fees anf then exchange it to fiat money - euros.

I've some friends who're into marketplaces and crypto in general. Never heard them talking about this in a negative way.

Agree. Cos these types of payments are handy and saves your time and money.

Thank you.

Adoption of Bitcoin and crypto currency in general is one of the challenges crypto currency is facing at the moment though with time it will the thing of the past. Although the general public adoption has increased as compared to what it was in the past years.

It feels really nice when your friend are appreciating and supporting you for what you are doing, my own friends use to support me and they always give me suggestion, to buy this, this and this with my crypto coins, they always take my contribution for travelling somewhere in form of bitcoin because they know how reliable it is to pay for anything we want.

Lots of people trust in crypto as well including me. I always prefer to pay in BTC and Eth when I am buying something online especially a domain. web hosting etc. trust is not about Crypto or Fiat. trust is all about security and safe payment system. if a trusted company provide payment option in crypto that is safe and if a none trusted company provide payment option in fiat that is not safe.

I have only a site where i can buy pc and phones with bitcoin, i hope in future will be more sites that accept bitcoin and crypto as method of payment and even pay bills directly with bitcoin if will be possible, but is so hard for companies that not want to adopt crypto.

If I'm not mistaken (I haven't sent any bitcoin in the past 4 days or so), there was recently a lot of network congestion and transactions were stuck in the blockchain for about a day or two.  It's all good now, but situations like those really take away from bitcoin's usefulness as a currency.  Who in their right mind would want to use bitcoin and potentially wait a day for a confirmation when they could just as easily pay for something with fiat?  That's always been a deal breaker in my eyes, and it's just one of the reasons why I don't like spending bitcoin on things I could pay for with cash or a debit card.

Bitcoin will probably always be useful for things on the dark markets and for transactions where a little bit of anonymity is needed.  It's also useful for legally grey-area stuff that banks and payment processors don't want to get involved with (cannabis seeds, kratom, you name it).  Other than that, there probably won't be much progress.  When places like Amazon and eBay start jumping aboard, then bitcoin will have hit mainstream.  Until then, its main use is as an investment.

in my opinion everything can happen and without anyone being able to predict the future it will be like how big the hopes of the crypto currency investors will be even better of course

I quite agree with The Pharmacist. Bitcoin is not applicable as a payment method irl yet. The way its rate fluctuates all the time will only confuse people.

No way it's BTC. It must be some other currency with the minimal volatility rate.

Companies or stores that accept crypto payments are still rare because crypto user communities are still few. Nothing can guarantee future progress about the realization of crypto as the main payment tool, but the progress of crypto that returns green as it currently supports this.

It is the one and only bitcoin which is being use all over the world,. Which is acceptable to pay for anything we want to buy even I have seen so many people buying car, houses, plots and all those things which are the needs of a person on daily bases, so I think 2019 will make it more reliable  for users to pay online.

I expect that finally there will be normal cryptocurrency credit cards, which will finally connect fiat and cryptocurrency in one place with a simple and convenient, and most importantly reliable method of use.

It possibly will be going into that and so we will greatly enjoy using our crypto coins.
The community are now looking to have more establishments and even for small market players will accept crypto even just only for BTC. Cause at this time, only known companies are accepting and not all of our wants are in their so there is still we can't fully used crypto. And that's we want for in the coming years.

Its hard because of the volatility but if we become more stable for sure they will do their best to use cryptocurrency. I’m just using this one most of the time when I’m buying my phone load so I can work online and its good actually since i don’t need to go far just to but a load. Making crypto transactions are always amazing.

I think it's going to be very effecient for all people who have business. Just imagine the convenience of auditing all the expenses or sales because they don't need to record it one by one and the only thing they need to do is to review all the transactions on that address that is reserved as the payment address.

Such projects as ModulTrade confirm it. Great you can already transfer a-eur that is connected to euro for free and to other wallets.

True. Inernational transfers using the banking systems are expensive enough. Plus it takes quite a few time. Crypto allows me to do this real quick while not paying a cent for the transaction to be made.

In this case, what do you think about the future of the bankong system? Will there still be a demand for them?

No way. I guess, banks start realizing the great potential crypto has. We are to witness the integration of crypto into a traditional financial system globally.

Well, the thing is people considered crypto to be somewhat temporary before. It's known to cryptoenthusiasts and traders only.  Today. once can see how the bills at a local cafe are paid in crypto and that it's convenient. I'm not speaking of marketplaces where clothes, phones and hoseware are beng sold for crypto.

The banks  and also governments have to admit the fact that crypto is a newly developed branch of economics and the society is not against.

No I don’t think so, because now people likes to invest in crypto currency and they are now at high demand it is beneficial ad it helps us to get out of financial crises, we will have to move with and time says we should accept the value of crypto currency which is much higher than banking now, people got it as best place to save their money for long term.

Crypto into payments can be seen all around as Marketplaces have begun to accept bitcoin compared to the past. There is also some form of issue relative to it which is the transaction confirmation. At times there will be more transactions stuck on the network due to congestion. This is not fair when used into businesses, so more advancements is a must for using bitcoin as Payments.

Until BTC is volatile, it cannt be used as a payment method. It's fraught with loses and inconveniences for users.

Cannot but agree! Banks would take risks and admit it's more onvenient to use crypto as a payent for people. Along with its usability it allows to save some money. Say, a-eur that you can transfer for free around the globe and then exchange it to fiat money.

What?:D what is that euro ? a-eur ?

Hi, it's a stable coin. Just google it on the Net.  Speaking briefly, you can keep it in the wallet as other coins/tokens, but transfer them to somebody you want to for free. So it's like you are transfering euros transformed into a stable coin.

Not Bad...:O So I can be transfered money with no fees, too, right?

I think many have been doing that already since many companies have already allowed cryptocurrencies to be used that way, or a select few of them for that matter. I think, as more and more coins would be accepted by more companies, especially the trusted ones to be used as a payment for goods and services that would open new doors for the horizons of cryptocurrencies. However, for now, it is limited because there still a lot of considerations that companies think of, since we can't hide the fact that cryptocurrencies, in terms of its value, changes in a blink. So, as a company that needs a return for its capital, it would be too difficult to just accept and accept cryptocurrencies knowing how it can be unreliable.

Yep. Go to MY website, they have all the info there.

I still believe in the altcoin market and still believe in ETH even though currently the market conditions and conditions are in a bad condition and I believe the altcoin will become even more developed

The real shift for me would be for merchants to start ditching those payment processors that actually doesn't do anything other than make a Bitcoin-fiat gateway. I'd really like to see more "Bitcoin accepted here" signs to mean that merchants are actually using their own Bitcoin wallets, and not forcing customers to pay using something like Bitpay, where they've to pay fees anyway (not to mention the inability now to use RBF or even set reasonable fees, as Bitpay's network insists you pay exorbitant miner fees).

With LN really smoothening out its rough edges too, there could be added incentive. Not sure 2019's the year for that though.

Thanks, will do!:)

Yes there was a network congestion in the past week when the market started rising and if you are giving a minimal transaction fees, it would get stuck for days while a few days back it would get through in a couple of years, when the market rises and if there are more transactions the only way to move the coins faster is to increase your transaction fees, i did input less than ten thousand satoshi  and it went through within the next few blocks, transaction fees are still lower.

I do agree with some of your sentiment here, but if there are merchants accepting bitcoin, i am sure people will be using that to make their payments instead of using credit cards, you never know how secure those card details will be if you are using it for purchasing online, that is not the case with bitcoin and that is a major difference. :)

Maybe it is better if you will see the team will be better and better soon and not only the project, maybe it is better if we will just look unto the honesty of the team to the investors and willingness of them to share what must be on the investors, that is the most common problem in cryptocurrency that is why the market was not that good most of the time. The abandonment of the team to their project after sales leads to the negativity to the altcoin industry. A team can create a good coin in the market but they dont have time to sustain it until the further success.

The acceptance of cryptocurrencies has started to happen but still we are in a very initial stage.
Still, we have a long way to go because the marketplace may be full of bitcoin accepted transactions but those are informal. We need to have a more formal place to sell and buy product with cryptos.

With many people already heard and learned about crypto there's nothing to expect than more businesses to cater the system, we do learned and so with them, the acceptance will be far better this year as the momentum start again to rise, with news and more related topics around social institutions and media coverage, we can expect more new followers and attracted believers.

with the launch of coinbase debit card in London we can expect mass adoption happen and most of the merchants and consumer transit through crypto-based cards in the coming future

That will come. But it won't happen overnight of course. Compared to a few years back, the amount of bitcoin and crypto usage has dramatically increased and there's no reason why it should slow down now.

It looks like the first quarter of 2019 did not show a strong development of the crypto industry, but rather last year’s decline continued. If in 2017 I often heard about how ATM Bitcoin appears in my city and new places where they accept cryptocurrencies as payment, now there is almost no news about new points where cryptocurrencies could be used. But now, when the price of all coins began to grow, many crypto projects became more active and began to develop. There are already quite a lot of crypto wallets with various functions that facilitate the use of cryptocurrencies for the purchase of goods, I chose some of the most convenient ones for myself, but I want to leave one of the best. Unfortunately, last year’s decline in the crypto market slowed down the development of the crypto infrastructure, but I think this year will be more successful than the past.

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This year is not the one to bet on. BTC is still pretty volatile. Also with the rate getting lower, lots of us are losing faith. I'm not here to make any predictions and foresee the exhanges development as there's no use id doing it at all.  Speaking of crypto as a payment method I guess it won't soon be globally accepted. Everything going on rg is just a number of efforts made during the crypto hype.

Bitcoin is very volatile and can be more profitable so better hold it than used on the market. Though there is store that accepts, I cannot see how many going to give up there coins for that or just choose to used fiat instead. There is no fruit as 2019 goes by on half year.

People need fast payment methods, we do not live in the Stone Age, but most of the cryptocurrencies are deferred waiting means of payment, it’s one thing when you pay something on the Internet and you have time to wait, it’s quite another when you are in the store and you have no time.

Well, that's SO pessimistic)) To me, crypto is gonna rock this world really soon.

Have no idea what exactly you are referring to, but today lots of crypto investors and traders are working on that. I'm from quite a smal city and  the youngsters are just barely aware of the crypto here. Perhaps some info on the Net and that's it. Even more haven't heard of that at atll.  I mean there's no doubt some are using the Blockhain techlogogy and paying in BTC and ETH now, but the majoiry hasn't heard a thing about it yet. For the most part, it is still an idea.

indeed we hope that the function of Bitcoin can be maximized, so we are more effective at shopping. therefore from that in 2019 I have applied in my country. and indirectly this can foster btc

not all cryptos are slow . other cryptos from the altcoins category are mainly snappy or fast when it comes to paying or currency use   but im not saying that bitcoin is slow  . bitcoin can also compete with them because the speed of bitcoin is dependent on the fees that you put up ( more fees equals to faster processing time )    .  in conclusion , crypto is really ideal for a currency and payment use when buying goods and other services online or  offline  .

Although the progress in accepting Crypto as a means of payment is quite slow, there are lot of reasons attached to it but the main one is the acceptance of crypto globally. I personally know of some crypto platform that are planing on integrating this means of payment between buyers and sellers on their platform but so far so good the low turn out from people is among what is making them lag behind. But with time I see this means of payment being implemented in major buying and selling platform we all know of.

You have a point, cryptocurrencies are way faster than any bank transfer around the world, but people have been comparing cryptocurrencies to cash for a very long time and when compared to cash most cryptocurrencies are very slow, in bitcoin it takes a few minutes just to get one confirmation and if the network is very busy or you are just unlucky it can take a few hours just to get that confirmation.

That is why the developers are creating the lightning network which will allow us to get almost instant confirmations for our transactions when that happens bitcoin will be finally ready to be adopted by most people around the world, so the only thing that we need to do in order to see that day is to keep waiting.

I believe this year, many businesses especially the online one are going to adopt cryptocurrencies and bitcoin as mode of payment and since many people are becoming aware of it this time and some positive comments and analysis is flowing into cryptocurrencies market i do believe that we are going to see companies using cryptocurrencies this year 2019.

So what about marketplaces then?

What do you mean? I don't get you.

I mean there are the martketplaces people buy things and pay in crypto. So we can no longer say it's just an idea.

I think it would be great if using Cryptocoin as a payment method for the purchase of products. This is a very good offer. We all want to use cryptocoin for purchasing anything. Because paying with Cryptocoin is very easy and hassle-free. So I hope that by the year 2019, Cryptocoin will be using the payment system in all cases. Now cryptocurrency is very popular. The acceptance of cryptocurrency is increasing day by day. So I'll say Cryptocoin as a payment system is very good.

Thank you

The BTC? Are you serious? a set of spaghetti for BTC?

Yeah i'm noticing the number of online shops accepting btc and other cryptos are growing. Even actual stores have signages at the front about accepting bitcoins. It's a good movement towards adoption even if it's a little slow. As long as people will be willing to sell and spend their btcs, i think adoption will be inevitable.

I think that's not happening in every part of the world which adopts cryptocurrency. Here in our country, no matter what the situation of the market is, cryptocurrency is still the most convenient mode of payment. There are establishments that still accept bitcoin here.

But maybe only few, the development is not matured yet, the adoption has not gone mainstream so there are only limited of establishment
that are going to accept bitcoin, and mind you that they are also investors who just want to support in promoting crypto.
At the right time, maybe 5-10 years from now, we might see more stores that will consider bitcoin as a payment method.

*rofl* not literally of course, just a metaphor. Go ModulTrade marketplace, clothes and it sections.  Friends of mine got some items there and got please with the service provided. They're from a small town by the way. I don't think the location has something to do with it. Id depens on how an individual is informed and follows the trends.

It is true for some applications but there are some that can end this.

You see, in our country, Bitcoin is legalized and as I told in the past, not all or not that many are using Bitcoin though there is this mobile application, an exchange wherein you can use your Bitcoin to pay for your bills. That is not the only good thing about it, you can send BTC from the same exchange without fees and it is really fast. I guess with that, waiting for your confirmation to pay using Bitcoin will not be a problem.

Indeed. Whose who live in big cities are more informed about recent technological updates. Don't forget though, the Internet is not a treasure anymore and is available everywhere. So today,  a country-side inhabitant  can also have a crypto wallet.

Would be funny to sell dairy for bitcoins or any other crypto. This is somewhat  phantasmagorical to assume but who knows what's next.

First, the cryptocurrency should be legalized by the states that should determine its official status, establish the order and conditions of its circulation in the state, state bodies should issue certain instructions to tax and other authorities, only after this should the infrastructure for using cryptocurrency be developed as a means of payment in addition, hardly ever bitcoin will pay for dairy products. Although this is not at all possible. Most likely, Bitcoin will be used mainly when making only large transactions.

Even though we are already in the year of 2019, we should not still expect that the cryptocurrencies will become a payment method for goods for the mainstream stores either online or offline. It will still take a long time before the people will start trusting these cryptocurrencies since people are not used to trust a full time type of currency.

indeed to go towards it still requires a lot of time. but my hope is that this year there will be a lot of positive news for bitcoin coming from the government. for example, enter the stock exchange. so that there will be many investors who bring their money to cryptocurrency, so that it can make the up trend. and hopefully this will continue

I think that it is not only a matter of trust in cryptocurrencies, but also the convenience of using them as a method of payment for goods and services. 
For many people who are not familiar with cryptocurrency, it will be difficult to pay it.

Agree with andriarto. People are sceptical, nobody wants to lose their money because of the rate fluctuations. When the marketplaces more or less stable, regular ones will start adding crypto as a payment method. There's no use in speaking of such a thing. Too early.

The picture is not so unsettling. Don't you forget about ModulTrade. They sell their products for crypto and give an opportunity to take/pay loans without interest. People won't miss the chance.

Everything will change for better and it will favor the acceptance of cryptocurrency.
What i am seeing now, BCH will be the best crypto in acceptance with merchants all over the world.
And they are the one who moves fast than any others.

The biggest factor in making Bitcoin mainstream at this point is single-handedly getting it into the payment processing of online and retail stores but specifically online for the meantime. Once it is easy to use online and many people have Bitcoin debit and credit cards then we will see a mass shift from Fiat to cryptocurrency.

Using Cryptocurrency as a form of payment is a goal that everyone expects it to achieve. Due to many objections and obstacles from governments, many developers do not accept Crypto as official payment currency. But there are still many traders who use it as a currency to make transactions with each other. Many ICO projects use this idea to attract investors, but almost all projects fail.

You are right, but we are speaking about classical marketplaces that don't want to add crypto as a payment method so far. It's just because constant rate fluctuations. The fact there's such platforms as MT and other crypto based online stores is great. But that's not enough to improve the situation significantly.

To me ICOs are not that popular anymore, we've got exchanges and e-commerce to get ico implemented

As long as crypto keep restraining krypto from becoming another approved payment method, we won't see any changes.

Investing in ICO is a big failure in 2018, not many people like it anymore. You are correct, Crypto is definitely a useful payment method, it will become more and more popular if it is not restricted by the governments of many countries.

Guys, it's been awhile since cryptomarket appeared but not that long to make such conclusions. The evolution of crypto is going allright and we shouldn't expect quick results. The time when crypto will be officially accepted as a payment method willl definitely come but it won't be that soon. We need to understand it and be patient.

I am still thinking about these marketplaces: the ratings of the sellers are real or not at all. Maybe the bots are used or something like that. Any thoughts?

I think we are far away from using Bitcoins instead of dollars or euros. For old people cryptocurrency sounds really weird. They aren't ready for this. A lot of old people still can't accept credit card xD

Man, have you fallen from the moon?)) Of course they can use some type of softaware, I'll tell you more, some of the reviews are not real reviews, but it's made just to attract people. Well, damn it it's done everywhere also in ordinary online stores.

If we have more and more government approving it and making it legal we will see that many others would start accepting it as a payment mode for their good and services . It is more depended for having a broader framework for accepting it as a payment option.

A strange question about the reviews .. I never check reviews, I mean at all. The marketers write so skillfully that you can tell the difference and tell who is who lol. I just listen to the opinions of friends, relatives, or try at my own risk.

Well, real people do use such platforms, say, Modul. I'm sure about that because I took something there myself and personally gave an assessment to the seller on their website. Now as for cheaters. Cheating may be possible as well as reviews, but there is no way out of it - marketing is everywhere. You just need to turn on your head and evaluate the purchase. imo

Crypto payments are like dreams but as the technology is difficult to implement for nontech guys they are struggling for it. but sooner or later they will also implement the ideas and payment methods in their sites. as for now, more and more people are integrating it. imagine how will it be when you can pay for your beer with crytocoins. I have high expectations in 2020 and less in 2019. as technology is still in development this year. Progress seems fine to me.

I agree with your opinion. However, problems with the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment are actually much more than it seems at first glance. Cryptocurrency should not only be legalized by the state, there should be clear instructions to the relevant government agencies, including tax authorities, on how to apply it to business structures in practice. A serious and practically unsolvable obstacle for business structures is the high price volatility of cryptocurrency. I know that many who first accepted cryptocurrency as a means of payment, then refused to use it for this reason. In addition, the practical application of cryptocurrency from a technical point of view is still very difficult for the average person.

I think both the positive and negative things are happening while cryptocurrency are to be in payment method the positive thing is the exchanges does not be needed for payments but the negative is the people will not like to pay with cryptocurrency because people like to hold their investment for long time.

Crypto payments are possible, and we will be able to do them soon, but not this year. By the way, many casinos use cryptocurrencies actively, and as you know, casinos never lose money.

If big consumer stores like Wallmart and metro supermarket accept bitcoin as payment processor we can expect fast adoption of cryptocurrencies

casino maybe best place for us to spend and use our bitcoin and another crypto currency.for now we have less merchants that accept bitcoin or altcoin.so for real usage we could not , but maybe after government legalize it we will see in any countries merchants ready to accept bitcoin.and we could go abroad using our crypto assets.

This obstacle is not as unsolvable as it seems

In fact, it is solved pretty easily if you are a cryptopayments processing provider (e.g. BitPay or CoinGate). As they aggregate cryptopayments from and to a lot of clients (e.g. online shops), they can hedge them in bulk, so to speak, and thus make themselves invulnerable and not susceptible to volatility (just in case, simple cryptocurrency users can do essentially the same). Other than that, I'm not sure if those companies which accepted crypto refused to accept for this reason exactly. It looks more like there was not many customers willing to pay with crypto in the first place

It seems that bitcoin and other cryptocurrency will be widely used in E-commerce marketplace. And also recently there are many cryptocurrency related e-commerce project that emerged, I think this kind of project will be success in 2019. Although people's enthusiasm to invest in bitcoin is big but it seems that there are more cryptocurrency holders who want to have fun with their bitcoin and spend it directly at somewhere that accept it. Including me, actually.

Paying with crypto is not a dream because many people, many services have accepted this payment method, and the speed of development of this payment method is very fast but there are always some issues that limit this development. And the problem here is the government, the issue here is the public's view of crypto, the government still never wants and allows people to join crypto, and people are always frightened by bad rumors and think that crypto is a scam, very few people want to accept it as a payment method.

Well what most of us wish to see is that cryptocurrencies are being used to make pay for goods and services. The progress with this goal is still steady and growing gradually. Some online marketplaces have already announced their will to allow users to trade in cryptos but this have not yet been implemented. Let's hope they implement these ideas soon.

The delays in processing last December (where some transactions took about a week to get just one confirmation) scared away lots of retailers. On the other side of the equation, people don't like spending crypto, they hoard it.

In my opinion about merchandise trading using crypto currency payment methods, is one of the revolutions in the field of technology in trade finance, especially finance, with the internet we can interact with someone who is far away from us, and cryptographic currency is the solution when we I will trade without limitation of distance and time, in 2019 I think it will be a good year for the development of crypto currency technology after some time back experiencing many corrections due to several things. So keep thinking optimistically about businesses that use crypto currencies

So far, cryptocurrency is mainly used for speculative purposes as a means of accumulating value. To use cryptocurrency as a means of payment, it is necessary not only to legalize it, but also to create the corresponding infrastructure after that. However, it is hard for me to imagine that people will convert cash or non-cash currency into cryptocurrency, after which it will buy goods for it. It seems to me that the cryptocurrency will remain as a speculative tool. Everything will depend on how easy-to-use cryptocurrency will be in the end.

We are all getting there soon. I think that the world is ready for cryptocurrency acceptance because it is already popular worldwide. If it will be legalized and officialy a payment method then im happy that i belong to the people who've known it for years now.

over time and technological developments, certain payments like cryptocurrency will be implemented and I'm sure of that. it's just that the government is not sure about ratifying cryptocurrency. cryptocurrency only needs support and recognition from leaders of a country.

The use of cryptocurrency to make payments is still in growing stages and i have also heard that Samsung has installed  a cryptocurrency wallet on one of their latest smartphones. This year might is likely we might see more online market platforms accepting cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for goods.

I consider even a miner pump in crypto as very important because if we will keep it for long term even those miner movement will make huge progress and price will be above our expectations, let the market be high and just hold your breath for it very soon everything will be fine, in this age of digital currency I know crypto currency will be first priority to buy goods online.

Agree to this, cryptocurrency was very an essential way to have a transaction. Here in our country, there is an app that allows to pay bitcoin for cellular loads and online game currency. It also allows to pay some bills using bitcoin. This app was already implemented long ago and I'm a verified user of it.

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Crypto adoption is have been slow in recent years and many shops are still not aware that there some kind of virtual currency in the online world that can be use in any kind of transactions. This year might be different because the market is bullish due to continues climb of bitcoin and some altcoins. During this uptrend of bitcoin, many merchants and investors might get interested in the cryptocurrencies and the bussiness people might try to use bitcoin as a payment in buying their goods.

Rather than awareness there is no legal support and authorities promote the services. In my country if it gets legal support automatically each and every store will carry its own wallet QR to receive funds, because in recent days I've seen large number of mobile wallets doing the same. The representatives go shop by shop and give a small pad carrying the QR of their respective wallet and explain how transactions were received and how they get notified.

Exactly, today there are still few shops that are using crypto out there. And these are IT shops for the most part. Speaking about bitcoins, I think it's risky to use them as a payment method.

It is fine to buy it quickly and now as it's not risky now.  Even the crypto rate doesn't change that fast.

Not only games can be paid in crypto.  Today we can buy clothes and products for crypto. An online store ModulTrade has such possibilities.

But as somebody mentioned btc is more suitable for trading and casinos. Cos you can easily sell and buy it.

MT is like another Amazon, it has everything exept food. Also weekly auctions starting at one dollar or euro, possible to buy a phone for a song let's say.

Crypto is always relevant as a payment method, no matter how much Bitcoin costs. People bought for crypto when bitcoin cost one dollar and when it cost twenty thousand dollars. In 2019, people will also buy and sell for cryptocurrency. Despite the price.

You are correct, and despite ups and downs people are joining, some to hold, some to trade, and some are buying things with bitcoins. What to expect from this year? I expect same things I always expect, community to grow, cryptocurrencies to be more popular around the globe, more merchants accepting crypto payments. Thats happening for years, and I believe that growth will continue in upcoming years too.

It is unlikely that something will change significantly this year in the matter of introducing cryptocurrency into our life as a payment method. The states are very reluctant and slowly legalize cryptocurrency, and without it, it cannot develop as a means of payment. A very big problem for using it as a means of payment in trade is the high price volatility of cryptocurrency. This problem can be solved by using special bank cards in which it will be possible to withdraw a cryptocurrency from the account, however, the calculations will actually be made in local currency. However, this requires a lot of time.

In my country is getting worser and worser. It is harder to buy Bitcoin this year with credit cards this year than it was before few years ago. I do not see any good changes in 2019., because we need better regulation, and governments are too slow, beside that,  it is not in their interest to start accepting cryptos, because banks are paying them.
Despite of that, i would like to have a freedom faster!

The high volatility in price of crypto currency doesn't affect crypto been use as payment method and I believe you're not updated about what's happening in crypto sphere because we already have bunch of companies/projects which offer crypto card that make crypto payment seamlessly but what hinder crypto been use as payment method was the legalization of crypto currency by some governments.

Goods bought using bitcoin in my opinion will not change too much in this year I think. The most type of goods are one time internet services like vpn licence or some marketing campaigns.

I think Yanu token makes cocktail purchaces very easy to use and understand, plus they have a strong project with a real product

Just as the adoption increases each year, there is much trust in the fact that 2019 will also have another increase in cryptocurrency integration into payment methods. The adoption is moving with a slow pace because of other factors like governmental issues and difficulties faced by non-tech people to utilize cryptocurrency. Anyway, this cannot stop the progress of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency will certainly become another major payment method across all borders.

The use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method has been discussed over and over again and i think we are seeing some steps in accomplishing that in the sense that i read that Ebay plans to accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method. Samsung has also built into its latest phone a cryptocurrency wallet. I believe we are still moving towards the success landmark of using cryptocurrencies to make payments but let's give ourselves like 5 years time and maybe this could be materialized.

The fact of the matter is that the direct use of Bitcoin as a means of payment by business structures is very risky, especially in cases where a long time elapses between the agreement on the transaction and its implementation. Some business structures are now trying to experiment and the results of such experiments on using cryptocurrency as means of payment are not impressive. Therefore, it is likely that various combinations of using cryptocurrency with other forms of non-cash payments will be used, and above all with bank cards that allow you to withdraw Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency taking into account their rate on the day of payment, however, the calculations will actually be made in fiat. This is a good way out in order to avoid the negative effects of the volatility of cryptocurrency in trade, and especially for long-term transactions.

You can use Bitcoin as money but you need to spend time to find the stores and the places where you can use it. Still, it is more convenient to make financial operations using fiat, even if you do it online.

I see cryptocurrency as an investment that is eventually booming from every success the project has, not just specifically BTC but I'm also referring to some altcoins that has a good platform and huge community. For the payment method in all sorts, I think it is better to stay safe on using the fiat cuz it's value is static you will not have to worry to its fluctuating value whenever buying

The market place is growing fast on base of crypto .I have seen a lot of site they are using crypto as a payment .I never use it but i always meet someone who purchase good in different time and used crypto as a payment .The new platform are growing gradually in year 2019 and coming year .so that we will see a huge marketplace on base of crypto and we can purchase goods and many other essential thing what we need as well.

Maybe it will happen because of Bakkt. The giant technology that will integrate in cryptocurrenccy or use cryptocurrencies in their new system may give away from crypto space to reach its golden era. Right now, we just need to wait if it will be a break for bitcoin or it is just a news. If ever, crypto payments in 2019 would become possible. How I wish I can use my digital currency in buying my goods.

I think the future might be solid for Bitcoin in particular. I read a few day ago that AT&T is now accepting Bitcoins. It's just a matter of time for others to catch up.

The 2 biggest hurdles are

1) Getting crypto into the hands of people who don't have it so they can spend it, this would require banks or money services such as paypal/western union etc to offer easy, fast, and cheap crypto funding into your wallet.

2) Getting people to spend it, tougher in a bull market as there is the mindset of "losing money" and because transaction fees jump.

At the moment its vastly easier, safer, and cheaper to opt for using your credit card over crypto especially for people who don't have any yet.

Stable coins might make its way out, and gateway projects had good technical progress with valid use case, whats remaining is adoption and its core competence on existing instruments. Weaknesses of crypto even Bitcoin being unstable to market deters alot. Still there's way for merchants to opt in. 2019 we could see small big players to shine at least after the crypto-winter, and when the market drives up again. You might just order some expensive goods through crypto

Do you know what are the most advanced states in terms of crypto?

Japan, US, Latin America just started experimenting with the crypto e-commerce.

Never heard of that before. You sure?

Well, they released Petro backed up by oil and they can pay for coffee in some coffee-shops throughout the country as far as I know.

If we are discussing just the very beginning of crypto usage it could be Africa too.

You wanna say there's an African country that is churning out its crypto?

idk. But there is a Senegal company that acts as a intermediary to transfer money via Blockchain.

Can you give more details? Sounds intersting.

Africans transfer money via MT system that's it. Go to their website or a fb page to read the news, they have had something posted on the topic.

I believe if crypto is used as a payment method for goods then it would be easier to do business, as you can send or receive funds without any problem all over the world.

Well, it does not matter much, as long as there is a bearish trend, there will be some misgivings for bitcoin payments, because obviously it is obvious, but it should be noted that for February-March 2018, the bearish trend had already passed and it entered the range of market accumulation, hence from there is the opportunity to buy bitcoin much cheaper.

The only way that touches is to do as investors, buy, track the currencies and wait as long as necessary until the price bitcoin goes up, that is, they can take years to take the bullish trend.

Convenience at paying will be high but the price changes on the cryptos might scare the traders to accept it.But when everyone uses it then the prices will not swing too much so it will become suitable for payments and everyone will prefer it too.

I believe this is what we are expecting. blockchain technologies bring us the best convenience it may offer in terms of payments. Businesses, Merchants and other form of fields that can accept bitcoin as payment are really being part of this amazing technology. There are some changes than the usual traditional payment method, but people tend do adjust with these kind of things. I'm sure it is advantageous for the both parties.

for this idea I strongly agree that if this is applied in payment methods for business then this will make a lot of people interested, people who don't know will find out about the method of using crypto

what's the MT you discussing here?

Hi, a trading platform where you can buy/sell goods for crypto.

so its like Amazon based on crypto right?

with the use of a business payment tool, of course it involves both the interests of using crypto, so it will be effective to spread crypto effectively and of course in a short time there will be more crypto users

Yep, now the product range is not as  big as in large stores as they opened a year or two ago.

ok, i dont need large numbers just something nice,  what do they have there?

Well, mass-market products mostly, something uninque too. Say, Russian dolls or luxury items.

to my knowledge these types of things are pretty expensive

Vice versa :D Much cheaper than in regular stores plus lots of discounts. Better try by yourself.

It will be learned by those who's not being reached by this system, if they'll see that the service is already available from where they are, curiosity will let them follow it will create good idea to them, imagine the world where crypto already been accepted to any places.

The development, though slowly, continues. The farther away the more computing power will be at our disposal, and the more advanced technologies we will be able to master, which will not only speed up but also improve payment methods using cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin as a payment method or goods is a fine I think it'll be more convenient and safe to make payments using crypto since you don't need to bring a lot of cash and you can just use your phone to make payment. As for the future of BTC, we really can't tell, indeed it is still on a bear trend for quite a while now but I've seen predictions that the bull run may happen in the coming months considering the increase of demand of bitcoin nowadays. Though there will be an upcoming competition from big companies but I guess bitcoin will not be tamed.

Crypto to be accepted world wide cannot happen in 2019, but it will happen within a decade. There are lot of factors which are preventing bitcoin to be used as a payment method and the major cause of it is the volatility of bitcoin. Bitcoin needs to be stable so that people can trust and have faith on its value.

Well there is a lot of news about crypto as payments that will happen in 2019. first i do think we have heard about starbuck will accept bitcoin and to make it real they partnered with microsoft and with bakkt. In this year also there is a lot of news that XLM are partnering with bank which will help XLM to be use as a payments item.

I'd like to know how can I check if the product is fake when using an online blockchain store.

Use certification procedure

How does it work?

I m not very good at expaining the exact mechanism you can check the MT and how they do it. Like a customer can use a special app that identifies the code and "says" whether the product is legit one.

Many can be done using crypto, one of which is a means of payment, especially in countries that have legalized crypto. But what is now a trend is crypto as an investment, especially bitcoin. This is inseparable from the rising price of bitcoin which is rising high.
Investors in many countries like crypto trading assuming fluctuating prices so that speculators can enjoy both short and long-term benefits.

Gradually, crypto is gaining popularity this time. People who take time to study its concept end up integrating it into their enterprises or utilize crypto through the purchase of goods and other services. 2019 is another good year for crypto as it has most of its valuable coins seeing spikes in their prices.

Are there people who had experience with Blockchain based marketplaces?

This questions been already asked, scroll the thread.

What would you like to buy there?

Well... just asking now. Read it's handy and not so expensive.

This is handy if you hold some crypto. I wouldnt bother myself if I didn't have crypto to exchange and register and... all those steps.

Hm I cannot agree to you. There are lots of the stores where you can buy things much cheaper even for crypto, say ModulTrade

no one will ready to accept with the payment of cryptocurrency in a proper way because the fear will easily disturb everyone to get payment with the Bitcoin in this situation but after some years then we will definitely expect some changes will be happened in this Crypto market and in all over the world.