The cryptocurrency market experienced a bumpy period towards the end of 2018 and at the beginning of this year too. According to Hacked.com, the prices of cryptocurrencies have dropped significantly which has led the mainstream media warning investors from investing in the digital currencies. However, according to research on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, the data collected did not depict a decline of popularity of the digital currency in the last six months of 2018. However, to ensure the industry is on a positive move, digital currency and blockchain-oriented meetings and conferences are still being conducted. These conferences have so far fetched a lot of tickets cash which shows that the masses are still highly interested in this continuously growing sector.
Just a few weeks into 2019 and there have already been multiple cryptocurrency meetings that have attracted masses to fill theaters and conference halls. This shows that despite the dwindling online popularity of cryptocurrency, the public is still interested in knowing more about this technology. Some of the significant crypto-oriented conferences that have received lots of attention from the public include The Binance Blockchain Week Event, Crypto Investor Show Manchester, and TNABC Miami to highlight a few. Besides, there are still more conferences lined up to happen in the coming few months. https://news.bitcoin.com/cryptocurrency-conferences-continue-to-thrive-despite-industry-downturn/
In addition to the conferences, more payment solutions have been developed to increase the convenience of converting cryptocurrencies to fiat currency. Atomicpay, a Thailand based crypto to fiat solutions provider, has developed a non-custodial digital currency payment terminal. This terminal is accessible to all digital currency merchants worldwide. The mission of this company is to eliminate the need for third parties in settling crypto-to fiat currency transactions. This platform will support payments in Bitcoin cash, Litecoin, Bitcoin, among other major digital currencies while inducing a 0.9% as transaction fees.
Unlike other cryptocurrency solution providers, Atomicpay will not be holding their clients’ funds. This will enable clients to obtain their funds faster as compared to the other solution providers. This platform is a unique and entirely peer to peer transactions solution. The most notable aspect of Atomicpay is that the platform allows their customers to convert their digital currency into over 150 fiat currencies. However, the downside is that the platform does not have an E-wallet service like other platforms. Thus, to make payments, clients are required to scan a QR code which a link to their crypto wallets. The service is available and currently serves over 1700 merchants across Thailand, Venezuela, and Turkey. https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/01/non-custodial-crypto-payment-solution-launched-by-atomicpay/
