Save Money, Engage Customers with Bitcoins

[LakeBTC]

It seems like there is more news about currencies today than ever before. The US dollar is being challenged as the global currency of record and at the same time Bitcoin is mounting an increasingly serious challenge to all national currencies.
Recently Dell announced that it would accept Bitcoins as payment. The computer-making behemoth joins a group that includes Overstock, Newegg, Expedia, Dish Networks, and CheapAir. For web retailers, offering a Bitcoin payment option is another way to enhance the customer experience.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer decentralized digital currency which purports to be secure and low-risk. For merchants it has the added advantage of offering very low or even no transaction charges. Try finding that with a standard credit card processor.
Although it is certainly gaining popularity among merchants, Bitcoin is even more popular as an investment. Many individuals are buying Bitcoins and holding on to them just as they would gold. Bitcoins hit a high of nearly $1,150 in 2011 and today are hovering above $600.

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[commandrix]

Stating the obvious here, but I see the point. Cryptocurrencies take away a lot of the hassles and costs involved in accepting fiat. Even credit cards aren't very useful for shopping online. Mostly people use them because credit cards and Paypal are the two main options for shopping online and both are going to add enough to any ecommerce business owner's overhead that I'm surprise more small businesses don't accept cryptocurrencies. What I like to tell business owners that are interested is that they can easily use cheap or free payment tools like QR codes, "Buy Now" buttons, Coinpayments.net if they want choices on which cryptocurrencies they want to accept or don't want to mess around with APIs, and the Mycellium wallet to start taking Bitcoin payments right now.

[lihuajkl]

a lot of advantages with bitcoin have been mentioned many and many times. The problem is a  impulsive trigger that make people buy, hold or spend btc, recognized as a currency by gov , getting discount from paying with btc, no fee for international transferring, stable exchange rate btc/fiat etc.