Switchboard | Bitcoin payment for Agentic Commerce

Stripe and OpenAI built the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) to support the entire internet ecosystem, and, principally, we designed the standard to be open to all payment processors. PayPal adopting ACP bodes well for merchants, consumers, and agents:

🚀 Commerce is moving inside AI. With the new Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), LLMs like ChatGPT can transact natively. But how does a merchant accept Bitcoin inside this new world? That’s why we built Switchboard. 👇

📝Field Note📝 We exhibited at this same event last year. A large tech expo targeting hospitality operators, hosted at the massive 100,000m² Excel Centre in London. This year: - c. 1 in 10 people we spoke to owned Bitcoin - Almost everyone we spoke to was open to accepting Bitcoin - Several had already started the process of seeking out Bitcoin-enabled payment providers - One had already built + exited a Bitcoin-based business, and was working on a new one - We have firmly left the Innovator stage of adoption and are rapidly moving through Early Adopter and on into Early Majority phase - Bitcoin is no longer laughed at, but taken seriously as an enabler for businesses - especially the spending power it can unleash - Merchants are looking to increase footfall, increase average spend, and increase customer stickiness. Our hospitality model, built around Bitcoin, ePoS, Hospitality Ops & Loyalty, allows us to directly attack and solve for each of these goals. - We came away with 60 leads to follow up, spanning three continents. - Merchants are still not too late to get to Bitcoin. But they are not early, either... TLDR: Bullish

Sometimes I feel like Rimmer in the Holoship episode of Red Dwarf

⚡️🔗 We’re expanding our providers for ACP Bitcoin and Fiat (payments directly in Chat GPT) Who should we integrate first?