About 200 Indiana merchants accept bitcoin, some owners now hold BTC instead of dollars
- —About 200 Indiana merchants accept bitcoin, per BTC Map data
- —Old Major Market holds all received BTC rather than converting to dollars
- —Square's bitcoin payment fee is 0% through year-end, then 1%
- —The figures are not official government or payment-processor statistics
Why it matters: Growing merchant adoption and a shift from converting to holding BTC suggest bitcoin is gaining ground as a payment method, not just a speculative asset.
Source: Digital Today