Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, around the corner, almost here technology.

And today I'm with the CEO and founder of BitPay.com, Stephen Pair.

Steve, how you doing? Can you hear me okay? Yeah, I can hear you great, Rich.

Great. Thanks so much for taking the time. I appreciate it.

My pleasure.

Yeah, can you tell listeners a little bit about bid pay what it does and what you help facilitate? Yeah, so BitPay is the number one Bitcoin payments provider.

And what we do in a nutshell, we have a couple of different products, but our primary product is our payment acceptance product,

and that allows a merchant or, you know, a business to collect a payment

from a payer that is paying in Bitcoin.

And if you're a merchant and you have an e-commerce website, you might come to our site,

create an account, configure it, and you can be accepting Bitcoin payments on your website

in just a few minutes.

And then we'll settle to that merchant in their preferred currency.

Or perhaps you're a larger company,

and you do billing and invoices for supply chain payment,

for a supply chain payment.

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