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Would anyone advise me on my use case?

I am launching a paid service and would like to offer the option for customers to pay in crypto. I would likely want to regularly convert the crypto to GBP for day-to-day spending at the supermarket and suchlike, rather than hold it as an investment or trade in it. It will likely be fairly small amounts at a time and therefore low-risk.

What would be the easiest way for me to do this?

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[–] burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago

Use Solana! It’s a super fast and cheap chain and I don’t know how it works exactly but apparently it’s also good for gaming? Never looked into it so this may be unrelated.

The easiest way imo is to just keep it in crypto and then use a Solana based crypto credit card to spend on USD. I think there are some where cash withdrawals are even free as well.

Centralized exchanges work as well but imo they’re a hassle. Of course with those crypto credit cards you have the risk of them locking you out and you don’t get the private keys for the wallet so I’d not put much more than you wanna spend on it, but since SOL transactions are almost instant I think it’s a manageable risk that you’d have as well with PayPal, Wise, etc.

[–] CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you want to accept any crypto and swap for fiat then most likely a commercial payment gateway is what you want. https://cryptomus.com/gateway or https://www.coinpayments.net/

You could also set up a non-custodial payments using Bitcoin Cash where the coins go to you. Bitcoin Cash is the future of money and will eventually replace fiat. In about 15-20 years. https://minisatoshi.cash/merchants

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Depending on what country you’re in, set up an account on one of the main exchanges like Kraken or Coinbase.

You can use your deposit address here to receive crypto, although I recommend self custody of course. Keystone is nice if you have the spare change.

Then simply sell the received crypto and withdraw to your bank account. I believe Coinbase and a few other places have cards which you can spend directly on. So it’ll settle in fiat with the merchant and sell a bit of your holdings to cover it.

Unless your audience is full of crypto natives I wouldn’t expect much activity here though. Can offer a discount for using crypto as it should work out slightly cheaper in fees vs stripe or whatever.

Oh and you probably want to convert to USDT or USDC if you want to avoid to volatility of crypto, or just convert to fiat and withdraw instantly.

[–] Pfeffy@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you can't use Google, you shouldn't use crypto.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with asking real people instead of AI.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

There aren't any real people in here except for the one who said not to use crypto.

All crypto is a scam, you're better off doing a cash business.