Best Bitcoin & Crypto Payment Processor

Two numbers we published in September aged faster than we expected. A Bitcoin payment took a median of 14 minutes and 16 seconds. Solana completed about ten points below the rest of the same merchant’s checkout.

Both were true for the year we measured, and neither describes the checkout today.

Two things changed late in that year. On 28 May 2026 we...

You pay the same supplier every month. Their address is in your history, so you copy it from last month’s payment, paste it, check the first and last few characters, and send.

The first and last characters matched. The middle did not. The money is gone, and there is no bank to call.

That is address poisoning. It does not break into anything. It waits for a...

You opened the invoice, copied the address and sent the payment. Then you noticed the invoice asked for USDC, and you sent ETH. Or you sent the right coin on a different network from the one you picked.

The invoice did not move, and the money has left your wallet.

In most cases it is not lost. Here is what happens to a payment like that, and how you get it...

Before a business turns crypto on, somebody always asks the same question. Will my customers actually use it, and where are they?

We answered it last year in our 2025 regional report. This is the 2026 e...

A customer wants their money back and asks how long it will take. What do you tell them?

Most of the answer sits outside the transfer. Since the middle of June 2026, the median merchant refund is sent about an hour after it is created, and the median shopper refund request in 23 minutes. The days your customer counts mostly come before anyone presse...