Quote from: Elwar on May 26, 2015, 04:38:50 PM

Quote from: Light on May 26, 2015, 03:22:12 PM

Quote from: fdylstyx on May 26, 2015, 03:05:19 PM

I think once retailers (with 300-1000% markup) have a good understanding of BTC, and it's been proven it can handle the load (exponential increase of adoption) they will begin to offer significant discounts to their customers that use BTC so they can both sell off a portion for their day to day expenses plus taking an immediate profit in fiat and HODL a percentage of that markup in BTC for future risk/profit.
Any broker service that they (retailers) can trust to successfully manage their BTC holdings (for a fee) and realize a minimum 12% average interest on those holdings would simply be using sound business practice over the long run.

I'm curious about a couple of things here.

First off, why would any major business (I'm going to define it as at least being present on the stock market) decide to actually keep Bitcoin?

Imagine a major company actually keeping this currency:

And that's why they'll use a payment processor, but if the price of bitcoin goes the opposite way and skyrockets they might regret not holding some, but most businesses wont be able to take the risk. I also hope that at some point in the future bitcoin wont be as volatile and will achieve some sort of fixed price.