{"id":16152,"date":"2017-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/2017\/06\/07\/bitcart-ditches-bitcoin-for-dash-user-uptake-soars\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:39:47","slug":"bitcartditches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.dash.org\/news\/bitcartditches\/","title":{"rendered":"BitCart Ditches Bitcoin For Dash, User Uptake \u201cSoars\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
Discount gift card supplier BitCart has taken the unusual step of abandoning Bitcoin in favor of Dash payment, with demand \u201csoaring\u201d as a result.<\/p>\n
BitCart, an Irish startup competing with the likes of Gyft, now only offers customers the option of paying for their Amazon gift cards with Dash.<\/p>\n
The cards, purchased at a discount, effectively give holders a 15 percent saving on Amazon products. The scheme will shortly expand to include hotels.com.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a merchant\u2019s point of view, bitcoin is extremely problematic,\u201d CEO Graham de Barra said in a press release about the move.<\/p>\n
\u201cBitcoin as a method of payment on BitCart is simply not sustainable and it\u2019s a nightmare from a merchant point of view; every twenty or so transactions the platform would stop working and we would have to reintegrate the API.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dash has meanwhile managed to keep its value in the face of rising and falling altcoin markets, while Bitcoin\u2019s network woes are compounded by an influx of new users.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince we integrated Dash six weeks ago, we haven\u2019t had a single problem. Dash is so easy to use from both a consumer and merchant perspective and since we disabled bitcoin, demand for BitCart has gone through the roof,\u201d de Barra continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Discount gift card supplier BitCart has taken the unusual step of abandoning Bitcoin in favor of Dash payment, with demand \u201csoaring\u201d as a result.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n