Companies with Bitcoin payments by industry| ��ƽ��

Number of businesses that either have a cryptocurrency ATM or offer crypto as an in-store payment method as of March 9, 2021, by industry

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March 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

March 9, 2021

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All figures provided are estimates. No updates have been provided since 2021; * Not all companies were categorized, see the "Details" tab for more information

Supplementary notes

* On March 9, 2021, the source consisted of a database of 21,941 companies, which were then assigned a business type matching ��ƽ��'s own categorization. Due to the size of the data set, this categorization is an ongoing process, with roughly 75 percent of all data having been assigned an industry as of the aforementioned date.

The numbers provided are ��ƽ�� estimates based on information from , using software from . The source has been discontinued since late 2021.

The information provided here comes from an open-source platform, meaning that people can add or remove companies at their own behest. This might lead to some countries having more entries than others (e.g. the website being more known/used in country X than in country Y), or that some figures have not been updated (e.g. a company was added at some point, but the business dissolved at a later date and had not been removed from the database). Additionally, the cryptocurrency market is a volatile market that is difficult to map out. For these reasons, all figures provided are estimates and may vary in accuracy.

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Convenience oriented businesses were seemingly more likely to offer cryptocurrency solutions than others in early 2021. This observation is based on open-source information, tracking (mostly small) companies that either had a physical in-store ATM for cryptocurrency withdrawal, or accepted cryptocurrencies for payment when a customer visits their shop in 2021. Figures on Bitcoin ATMs are available from several outlets - with this ranking attempting to list where these crypto ATMs or in-store payments can be found. Nearly of the companies mentioned here are found in the United States, with only other countries having over 1,000 entries in this list.

Going big: cryptocurrency acceptance among large businesses

Many of the companies listed here are small businesses, although some entries are part of a retail or gas chain. This leads to the question of whether big companies are opening up to the use of virtual coins. In ***, Tesla announced it was considering accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as a direct payment method for their Model * car. This was a big change, as some large firms used intermediary services up until that point. These services offer solutions that convert crypto payments into U.S. dollar, which are then send to the receiving company. One example includes is Microsoft - Bitcoin payments are allowed on the Microsoft Store, which are then handled by a service called BitPay. BitPay was especially popular with prepaid or gift cards in 2020. Tesla was the first big company to openly state it might accept BTC without an intermediary, as part of its plans to own more cryptocurrency. The car manufacturer's move sparked a Bitcoin price surge in the following weeks.

Digital purchases with Ethereum: the rise of NFT

A few weeks after Tesla's announcement, the crypto world hit the news yet again: A digital artpiece called Everyday: The First 5000 Days had been sold by auction house Christie's for around ** million U.S. dollars - the highest-valued NFT project in the world as of , and the third-highest ever sold artpiece from a living artist. Essentially, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) function as a blockchain-powered letter of authenticity which can be bought or sold using Ethereum. Several famous examples of where NFT was used include the aforementioned *** USD auction sale, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey selling his very first tweet through NFT marketplace Valuables, and sports platform Top Shot - where basketball fans can buy and collect packs of NBA highlights. Essentially, the token serves as a unique code connected to a digital file, allowing to distinguish the original file from copies floating around on the Internet. This market is relatively young but saw its market cap grow significantly in only three years time.