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Over the years, the exchange of bitcoins has opened globally and allowed people to trade bitcoin for other currencies more effectively. Even the governments have also begun to recognize bitcoin as a viable currency. Nowadays, The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) allows bitcoin use. The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) has also issued some of the world’s first bitcoin regulations thru guidance report for persons administering, exchanging or using virtual currency. They also stated that the bitcoin exchanges must comply with money-laundering laws. The US Senate has surprisingly opened the long-term prospects of bitcoin in their informational bitcoin hearing.
There are a number of reasons as to why businesses should accept bitcoin and why merchants should consider adding bitcoin to their payment method portfolio. The bitcoin also provides strategic advantages which are seen by businesses globally.
1. Lower transaction fees. - Costs of transactions for accepting bitcoin are cheaper and are significantly lower in comparison with the commission rate for credit and debit card purchases. It is more beneficial for small businesses alike as they can’t negotiate for lower credit card transaction fees as compared with large enterprise level businesses.
Also, bitcoin payments do not charge account set-up or termination fees.
2. Global Accessibility – Bitcoins provides ease of accepting international payments. The only limitation to its use is internet availability. It relieves the steep cost of going global by eliminating expensive cross-border transaction fees thus making cross-border payments, easier, faster and cheaper. It is as if you can accept payment from anywhere in the world.
3. Fast Transaction - Transactions are done quickly and are nearly instantaneous only taking a couple of minutes compared to a SWIFT – an international transfer sent via the SWIFT international payment network. A cheque can take ages, a money transfer across borders can take a long time too, but Bitcoin can generally be confirmed within ten minutes.
4. Fraud Prevention and User Anonymity - Bitcoin can eliminate credit card fraud whereas it is said that about one in 50 credit card transactions is fraudulent. It allows customers a discreet payment method without having to divulge personal information by providing them a degree of identity-theft protection that credit cards can’t offer since with bitcoin there is no personal identity attached to the form of value and there is no need to transmit sensitive personal information. It is almost like a digital cash without the fear of being intercepted and the owner’s identity can’t be revealed. The Bitcoin address being generated for user purchases changes with each transaction leaving no trace of the owner’s identity. This also makes a huge difference to traditional debit or credit card numbers where using your long card, expiry date, and CSV number can easily be hacked when stored with the merchant.
Payments are secure and are retained indefinitely on the blockchain ledger. It is said that blockchain can’t be hacked. The records on all the many computers that are holding identical information are interlocked. If one computer’s blockchain updates are hacked, it will be rejected by the system. The only way the system can be hacked would be if all the system locations in the world, possibly located on millions or billions of computers, could be hacked simultaneously.
5. NO Third-party interruptions – one of its most widely publicized benefit is thatit has no central money authority - the government, bank and other financial intermediaries have no way to interrupt user transactions or freeze bitcoin accounts. Many individuals also feel comfortable by holding a part of their wealth in securely-stored bitcoin, where a central authority cannot block access or take a cut.
6. No chargebacks – When accepting credit card payments, or even bank payments the sender has the ability to reverse or “chargeback” the payment. There is nothing worse than sending products to a customer, only to receive a message that the payment has been reversed, you will feel you have been cheated and there is nothing you can do about it. Since bitcoin purchases are final and irreversible, it removes the threat of expensive charge-backs providing an additional benefit to merchants. People who have purchased thru Bitcoin generally have no recourse in a dispute since transactions are perceived as cash making it final.
7. Get Paid Quickly – cash liquidity or having cash on hand is critical for survival of small businesses. Bitcoin payments helps in cash liquidity since it is faster to get Bitcoin payouts which typically arrives in only two business days in comparison with credit card payments that took longer to be credited which locks up your fund for a week or more
8. Increase in New Customer - It gains access to new customers who prefer using cryptocurrencies to pay for goods and services.
9. Ease of Use – it is a fairly simple process to accept bitcoin payments.
10. No paperwork - Anyone, from any country, of any age can accept Bitcoins within minutes. There is no ID card, passport or proof of address that all conventional banks required to open an account. All you need to do to start sending and receiving Bitcoins is to download a Bitcoin Wallet program and generate a Bitcoin Address.
11. Appreciating Value - the value of Bitcoins were initially highly volatile during the first few years of it’s inception, however, during the last 6 months the currency has stabilized and has been steadily increasing in value on a daily basis.
12. Others - It offers existing customers new ways of paying especially those who are technically savvy.
13. To help support the cryptocurrency revolution.
Bitcoin opens up the world of commerce, whilst at the same time dramatically reducing the costs traditionally associated with performing such a transfer. It also holds personal data more securely.
How To Get A Bitcoin Merchant Account?
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