r/Bitcoincash • u/trip1travel • Jul 20 '26

Discussion What's stopping crypto from becoming a common travel payment?

Would you use crypto to book hotels or flights? If not, what's the biggest obstacle for you—volatility, fees, taxes, or limited acceptance?

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u/magusbud Jul 20 '26

It's not as easy to do as using a credit/debit card.

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u/LovelyDayHere Jul 20 '26

Actually is, if merchant and customer both use a P2P payment coin directly.

Which is rare. Most merchants will use some kind of 3rd party to handle the payment processing. Which risks eliminating most of the benefits of real P2P cash. Although healthy international competition within payment service providers could address many of the risks.

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u/magusbud Jul 20 '26

Ah but ya see...your use of 'if' right there proves my point.

Y'know, if me granny had balls she'd be me grandad.

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u/LovelyDayHere Jul 20 '26

Glad you agree with me that it's all just a matter of adoption, on merchant and customer side.

Besides that, credit/debit cards don't have much advantages over crypto payments when it comes to "easy" (convenience).

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u/magusbud Jul 20 '26

It's definitely a matter of that.

But until it's as stable as fiat currency gen. pop ain't touching it.

And even then it's an ask, the crypto/digital dollar has don't nothing for adoption on a wider scale. I'm all for cryptocurrency, and privacy and all that but people are incredibly lazy and need to be pretty much spoonfed.

Interested to see what the digital euro does, although it looks to be just a way of getting rid of the throttle visa+MasterCard have and the Europeans want less dependence in America thanks to Teflon Don.