Bitcoin payments will face big challenges heading to brick-and-mortar (but it’ll get there)
<p><span class="post-label guest-post">Guest Post:</span> If Bitcoins hit brick-and-mortar retailers today, customers would be slapped with transaction fees, and payments would take an hour to go through. </p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=venturebeat.com&blog=342986&post=887433&subd=venturebeat&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.venturebeat.com/c/34021/f/665469/s/3660f449/sc/5/__.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/><div class='__-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fventurebeat.com%2F2014%2F01%2F26%2Fbitcoin-payments-will-face-big-challenges-heading-to-brick-and-mortar-but-itll-get-there%2F&t=Bitcoin+payments+will+face+big+challenges+heading+to+brick-and-mortar+%28but+it%E2%80%99ll+get+there%29" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fventurebeat.com%2F2014%2F01%2F26%2Fbitcoin-payments-will-face-big-challenges-heading-to-brick-and-mortar-but-itll-get-there%2F&t=Bitcoin+payments+will+face+big+challenges+heading+to+brick-and-mortar+%28but+it%E2%80%99ll+get+there%29" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fventurebeat.com%2F2014%2F01%2F26%2Fbitcoin-payments-will-face-big-challenges-heading-to-brick-and-mortar-but-itll-get-there%2F&t=Bitcoin+payments+will+face+big+challenges+heading+to+brick-and-mortar+%28but+it%E2%80%99ll+get+there%29" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fventurebeat.com%2F2014%2F01%2F26%2Fbitcoin-payments-will-face-big-challenges-heading-to-brick-and-mortar-but-itll-get-there%2F&t=Bitcoin+payments+will+face+big+challenges+heading+to+brick-and-mortar+%28but+it%E2%80%99ll+get+there%29" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fventurebeat.com%2F2014%2F01%2F26%2Fbitcoin-payments-will-face-big-challenges-heading-to-brick-and-mortar-but-itll-get-there%2F&t=Bitcoin+payments+will+face+big+challenges+heading+to+brick-and-mortar+%28but+it%E2%80%99ll+get+there%29" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/sc/5/rc/1/rc.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/sc/5/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/sc/5/rc/2/rc.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/sc/5/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/sc/5/rc/3/rc.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/sc/5/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/186529757172/u/79/f/665469/c/34021/s/3660f449/a2t.img" border="0"/>
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