I'm curious about businesses or initiatives that are really backing Bitcoin as a way to pay. What are the standout ones right now, and how are they implementing Bitcoin for actual payments in the real world? Just holding onto some hopium that BTC isn't going anywhere.
At the top of my head would be the billion-dollar company, Coinbase.
They allow BTC payments for their merchants that use Coinbase Commerce, or users can just pay directly from their own Coinbase account.
I think they don't currently support payments from non-custodial wallets, though.
Why would you think it won't stay? It's here to stay, alright.
Probably the only thing that could potentially halt BTC's progress is when a massive solar flare hits us, and that isn't even enough to destroy it - it has to be an extinction-level event.
Actually bitcoin is still good with many companies that deal directly with crypto, like binance, coinbase etc, other banks or big companies are still not opting for it, and i think they will not, as there are still many regulation issues with it, but that is how bitcoin is suppose to be, so I am glad with it, also many companies are using it as an additional payment method, which is good.
There are a bunch of them to mention, and I think you need to check this link for that list. https://www.bitpay.com/directory
Some of them are using on-chain while others actually using the blockchain network, but the problem is it takes a minutes before it will confirm.
That's exactly.
Bitcoin will last for long and it becomes more expensive as what the price today.
Bitcoin is here to stay because after 16 years, and hundreds of time people called "Bitcoin is dead", it has never been dead and its on chain transaction volume as well as market trading volume have all increased a lot than years ago.
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
You don't have to mind about which company is a biggest one that accept Bitcoin. Bitcoin adoption is from many companies, many entities, many people in many nations globally as it is a decentralized project and its adoption is not centralized in any big company or any big nation.
If you want to find where to buy or spend bitcoin.
https://bitcoin.org/en/resources#directories
If I don't misjudge and look at several large public companies where they hold and are friendly towards Bitcoin, they also have Bitcoin in significant amounts, it could be said, Of course, some of these companies can be said to indicate strong confidence in Bitcoin in the future, as in the quote below.
And next, if you look at the jurisdiction where the friendliest country for service and support for Bitcoin is in Switzerland, UAE (Dubai/Abu Dhabi), Singapore and Hong Kong, if you go to these countries, of course you will not have seen various Bitcoin-friendly services at this time.
You need to look out for opensource, decentralized companies or projects..There is bitsq (basically an exchange, could be a marketplace) and many other projects. It's important to note that search engines from centralized world aren't the best means to get such information as they are typically biased towards centralized crypto projects, which are mostly controlled by their governments rather than Bitcoin community/system. And if the centralized projects dominate, the decentralized system they revolve around could become centralized if nothing is done to prevent them. So, we need to be really careful here.
True Bitcoin companies or projects are those with no single ownership, even though there may founders or highest investors. The projects will be open-sourced, with potential contributors joining and leaving at will, or with little to zero permission. This doesn't make them communist things as founders roadmaps would be followed, and they could have major stakes in the project for being founders or members with the most ideas that built the projects or companies. Members stakes in projects should be equal to their contributions.
To prevent slow implementation or lack of consensus for proposals of community owned projects, all proposals should be completely open to community reviews, and be approved when no issue is found. Individual can create proposals and get funded by the community/investors to develop them in permissionless manner.
There are multiple ways stakeholders can be proportionally rewarded for their contributions: profits from sales/usage, from projects coin/share price gain, reputation points, etc
There are many such companies that work friendly to Bitcoin, including Coinbase, Binance, and in addition to this, MicroStrategy, Square company and metaplanet are also included in the investment, so most of the development of Bitcoin is to make it successful or to say who has achieved most of them, which is not very important, but more important is how Bitcoin is developing and how high it has risen so far. Those who worked to make Bitcoin an exchange are also enough and those who are investing in Bitcoin are also working a lot and Bitcoin is becoming a very successful coin. If you talk about Bitcoin countries, UAE, Switzerland and EL Salvador are giving a lot of effort and facilitation. Bitcoin still has a lot to develop, at this time Bitcoin has made itself this far in a digital way, now Bitcoin is succeeding for a real reason and this year we will see a lot of development systems.