[2014-09-05] 5 Reasons Merchants Should Start Accepting Bitcoin Now

[cescan]

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237026

An estimated 80,000 businesses already accept Bitcoin today, and not just as a marketing gimmick. Why not yours?

Forward-thinking merchants of all sizes around the world are glomming onto the hot Bitcoin payments trend, many of them to cut costs and boost their bottom line, says Adam White, director of business development and strategy at Coinbase.

[counter]

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237026

An estimated 80,000 businesses already accept Bitcoin today, and not just as a marketing gimmick. Why not yours?

Forward-thinking merchants of all sizes around the world are glomming onto the hot Bitcoin payments trend, many of them to cut costs and boost their bottom line, says Adam White, director of business development and strategy at Coinbase.

This is the kind of thing that we should all copy, paste and print out so we can give the info to local businesses that we'd like to see Bitcoin.  Or maybe post it on Craigslist for all to see and hopefully it will go viral and small business will really take notice and try to make some money buy accepting Bitcoin.

[yrask]

I agree it's a great time to jump in now IMO, before small merchants were scared from the banks/other processors but now with bigger companies "with tons of lawyers" I doubt banks would take the approach of banning accounts involved with BTC.