The company has a goal to have 1million merchants using its platform by the end of 2016. Its a massive objective, given that the company is implicitlyhoping to grow its merchant base by 25Xin less than a year-and-a-half. BitPay is an interesting company, as it provides wallet-agnostic bitcoin payment processing transaction tipping, if you were curious, is taken care of by the paying party, not BitPay itself. As such, the companycan offer stronger margins than traditional payment providers who accept dollars and so forth. BitPays pitch to merchants is therefore simple: Use BitPay for free, accept bitcoin-based sales that might expand your total transaction volume, and even if they dont, you might save a few points on the sales that shifted from traditional currencies to bitcoin, as the bitcoin transactions were free. Apart from the implosion of Mt.Gox, 2014 has been a slow period for bitcoin.The price of bitcoin, which is correlated to public interest in the stuff , has been somewhat flat. According to BitPay CEO Tony Gallippi , that stability is actually seen as a plus by merchants though most merchants clear their bitcoin from sales directly into their currency of choice.
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Design Risk The last risk is that bitcoins incentives need to be designed correctly. The system currently works by having volunteers process transactions. These volunteers are called miners and are financially compensated for their effort. If the incentives for the miners aren’t designed correctly and for some reason in the future that cant be changed, then the bitcoin system could collapse. Bitcoin is just starting to become useful.
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