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BitPay To Accept Bitcoin Cash Payments In Retail Stores as Prices Jump
Bitpay in an announcement will begin to allow brick-and-mortar businesses to use Bitcoin Cash for payments. The cryptocurrency payment service provider already has Bitcoin available to its user, but will now allow users to choose between paying in Bitcoin or Bitcoin cash.
Since its inception, Bitpay has been providing businesses with their services since Nov 2014. Bitpay has provided 
several restaurants with cryptocurrency means of payment and has done exceptionally well. Some of the cities in which Bitpay is functional include Toronto, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, Paris and Madeira Beach.
The successful growth rate or acceptance was one of the deciding factors the company has decided to create more and better payment options. Available to customers would be the option to choose which currency to pay with, option to give a tip, and a checkout option.
BitPay wrote. “Payments take just a swipe or a tap, and the receiving merchant gets a local currency bank settlement within one business day. Merchants get every dollar or euro they charge, minus BitPay’s 1% processing fee.”
Last year, BitPay co-founder, Stephen Pair, said
“after careful observation, they found out that no bitcoin alternative was innovative or “compelling”. Despite scaling issues, Pair concluded that Bitcoin was the best cryptocurrency till date. However, following Bitcoin Cash’s launch in August, BitPay allowed users to store and spend BCH in its open source wallet, Copay. This announcement was considered as one of the reasons behind the increase in BCH’s price from $313 to $431 within 24 hours in Sep. 2017. The next month, BitPay confirmed that it would begin accepting “additional blockchain payment methods” starting with BCH. Once again, the news caused BCH to break records by crossing the $2,000 mark.”
With the advent of BitPays announcement, Bitcoin cash has seen about 19% increase in value. Bitcoin Cash, currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency, has been in an upward movement, prior to the announcement – it is now up 100% in one week. The market cap has also doubled within these seven days, climbing from $12 billion to $24 billion.
What do you think about BitPay’s Innovation within the cryptospace? Is it a gesture that would stand the test of time or will it create problems? Let’s hear from you in the comment section.
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