I went on a mini rant here about some things:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5380215.msg58988849#msg58988849But I really don't think it's because of BitPays advertising. It's because it allows merchants to take
BTC and a few of the larger alts if they want and convert it into fiat in a quick and simple way. At the moment just about every business person is stressed to the max and they don't want to play around with exchanging
BTC to fiat or anything else. They want to get paid and move on to the next thing they have to do. Yeah, BTCPay is great but if you don't have the time to convert to fiat and it's Friday and your staff wants to get paid and so on do you really want to deal with that.
I actually see that with a merchant I use (namesilo.com). They take
BTC direct and BitPay for
BTC and some alts. The
BTC rate was better for me as the customer if I use the BitPay option then direct. I am guessing that the BitPay fee was less then corporate figured the cost of doing it themselves was.
-Dave
Converting crypto to fiat in easy way for merchants is very important thing, especially considering how unstable markets sometimes can be. Also, accepting altcoins is needed too, but not just BitPay have it. Most of centralised gateways have, for example Coinbase, Coingate or Coinpayments. But it feels that BitPay is first pick for most bussines.
I think that one of disadvantages of BTCPayServer is that you need to run a node to use it. It's not something difficult or expensive, but it's extra stuff for bussiness and they don't bother to do it, especially if crypto payment option isn't very popular on their store.
