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Bitpay Statistics Show the Use of Bitcoin for Payments Is Dwindling

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The use of bitcoin as a digital currency for payments has gone down significantly, according to the numbers stemming from Bitpay, one of the leading cryptocurrency payments processors. While most of the purchases were made with bitcoin back in 2020, this dominance has dwindled, opening the space for other tokens and currencies, such as ethereum and stablecoins, to enter the crypto payments arena.

Bitcoin Use for Payments Diminished in 2021, Bitpay States

Bitcoin’s use as digital payments currency has dwindled since 2020. This was the conclusion that Bitpay, one of the leading cryptocurrency-based payment processors, had when reviewing the numbers the market left them last year. Bitpay told Bloomberg that the dominance of bitcoin for purchases in its platform went down from 93% during 2020, to 65% in 2021. This loss of almost a third of its dominance has to do with the entrance of other currencies into the payment arena.

The rise of stablecoins and the popularity that some meme coins enjoyed last year also reached the payments arena, albeit in a small way. Bitpay explained that users of the platform paid with ether 15% of the purchases, while stablecoins accounted for 13% of the payments last year. Other newcomers like shiba inu, dogecoin, and litecoin accounted for 3% of the payments.

Crypto Payments, in General, Are Rising

While the use of bitcoin (BTC) for making payments certainly decreased during 2021, the use of cryptocurrencies for payments, in general, has managed to increase. The total volume of payments that Bitpay did in 2021 presented an increase of 51% year on year. This is a result of the popularization of cryptocurrencies and also of the rise in prices that the market experienced last year. On this, Bitpay’s CEO Stephen Pair stated:

Our business ebbs and flows to some degree with the price, when the price goes down, people tend to spend less. We have not experienced as much of a decline in volume with this recent pullback.

Bitpay, being one of the most recognized crypto payments companies and managing big volumes in sales, is still dwarfed by traditional payments companies like Visa and Paypal. But to Pair, the field is young and the company is in a very good position for the future. He declared:

We really like where we are strategically. This space is still very young. A lot of it has to do with what we think about timing. In the next couple of years we are likely to see very substantial growth.

Other traditional companies shave also entered the crypto payments area. Paypal announced it would start processing cryptocurrency-based payments In March.

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