Back in October — in what seems a lifetime ago in the cryptocurrency world — PYMNTS and BitPay’s “Shopping With Cryptocurrency” study found that “tech-driven” consumers, representing roughly 15% of all consumers and 22% of past or present cryptocurrency holders, are the most likely to...
The epic crisis that many observers dreaded in crypto has seemingly come to pass. Right now, there’s mass confusion over who’s exposed to FTX’s spectacular collapse, how far the damage may spread and what will happen on the regulatory front. “There’s always been this risk,”...
While using crypto to make payments isn’t exactly common yet, there are signs that consumers’ desire to pay with digital assets is still strong despite the downturn of the crypto winter. Most notably, more merchants are starting to accept it, and more FinTechs are starting...
There are a lot of potential points of friction or failure in cross-border payments between businesses, ranging from slow finality and high costs to counterparty risk. Those are all problems that using bitcoin, stablecoins and other digital assets can help you bypass, said Stephen Pair,...
December 27, 2022
Shopping with cryptocurrency remains a novel, or even foreign, experience for most consumers. That said, PYMNTS’ research shows that among tech-driven consumers, more than 1 in 3 (35%) prefer merchants that take crypto, with 26% saying they would go so far as to switch merchants to shop where crypto is accepted. Nearly 1 in 4 […]
November 25, 2022
Back in October — in what seems a lifetime ago in the cryptocurrency world — PYMNTS and BitPay’s “Shopping With Cryptocurrency” study found that “tech-driven” consumers, representing roughly 15% of...
November 14, 2022
The epic crisis that many observers dreaded in crypto has seemingly come to pass. Right now, there’s mass confusion over who’s exposed to FTX’s spectacular collapse, how far the damage...
November 01, 2022
While using crypto to make payments isn’t exactly common yet, there are signs that consumers’ desire to pay with digital assets is still strong despite the downturn of the crypto...
