ELI5 How to accept crypto ?

[Betfair]

Hey guys based in CA US, gonna rent some stuff and do some work as a freelance how to accept crypto easily in states?

[TryNinja]

Since you are going to do freelancer jobs and manually rent something, you can do everything manually by creating a wallet for the crypto you want to accept and give the user your address so they can send you payments. It's easy as that, since it's basically a normal P2P transaction and there is no need to use a cryptocurrencies payment gateway.

[Emoclaw]

Simply use any Bitcoin wallet such as Electrum and give the buyer your address to send you Bitcoins.
Depending on how you're going to communicate, you can also send a QR code that also has the to-be-paid BTC amount in it. Electrum allows you to do that in the 'receive' tab.

But I'd personally use BitPay for anything business-related. It was made from the ground up for this type of thing and you can also generate QR codes on mobile. Plus you can integrate a payment gateway in your website. It's what Steam uses.