You can now buy your fiancée a diamond ring with Bitcoin, and the jeweler never has to see a single Satoshi. That’s the quietly disruptive premise behind a new wave of crypto payment platforms like PDX Beam, which are turning what was once a speculative asset into something far more mundane: a way to pay for everyday things. Crypto is moving out of the shadows of finance and into the heart of commerce, and it is doing so without dragging merchants into the volatility and risk that’s long made them hesitate. From Token to Transaction Crypto’s retail potential has been discussed for years, but the last 12 months have ... (full story)