Use of Bitcoin for crypto payments is declining

  • A piecefrom Bloomberg on the rise in use of stablecoins and other crypto at the expense of BTC

Says Bloomberg, citing BitPay Inc., one of the biggest crypto payments processors in the world

  • Last year, Bitcoin’s use at merchants that use BitPay dropped to about 65% of processed payments, down from 92% in 2020
  • Ether purchases accounted for 15% of the total
  • stablecoins 13%
  • new coins added to BitPay in 2021 -- Dogecoin, Shiba Inu and Litecoin -- accounted for 3%

Crypto is chipping away at fiat for payment, its not clear if BTC will be the biggest winner. Bloomberg link is here (may be gated).

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