If you read
my thread, you will understand the strategy that I use that doesn't cause me any trouble with price volatility. Other users might have their own strategy, which might be quite different from my own, but I think that the best strategy for accepting Bitcoin payments is to convert from Bitcoin to Fiat after you have received the payment.
Large companies with a ton of payments can't afford to sit and wait, a 5% drop when you're taking 0.5% margin would mean you need to basically pay for all the infrastructure and wages and everything for 10 days just to cover that drop, imagine Walmart doing this on a few billions a day!
But in short there are basically two large types of merchants:
Little business with small BTC payments that have a few clients a day and threat the BTC investment as they would have bought it at the exact time with their own cash
Companies with higher turn-overs that simply add a payment processor that accepts Bitcoin which usually has multiple accounts on exchanges, filled up with coins so the moment your payment goes through the exact same amount is being sold on an exchange for $, so previously
- you had some coins, the processing company had some coins on an exchange the merchant had the goods
- now you have the goods, the payment gateway got your coins, the coins on the exchange are being sold and the fiat is handed to the merchant
And all this happens in seconds, the volatility is so little it's of no concern!
Of course there are more variances but the biggest chunk act like this!
And I think they make money profit than the normal business owners that accept only fiat because when they sell something when Bitcoin is low, the person would pay it with higher units to balance the price and if that Bitcoin is there until the bull market then they will make more profit both from the product and from the Bitcoin. Therefore accepting Bitcoin is a very good business.
So why are there no real large chain selling goods for bitcoin and the largest companies that do so accept to a gateway that converts it to fiat instantly?
Maybe because it can bankrupt you when it goes the other way around?
As long as the company is serving to every country this world, paying in cryptocurrency is actually the best choice since it's cheaper and faster than banks or international payment processor.
You're telling me Bitcoin payments are cheaper and faster than Visa?
Common! Let's be serious!
We're talking on this forum about the huge the fees for signatures payments and you come with this?