Expedia should serve as a cautionary tale for the wider blockchain community
started accepting bitcoin for hotel payments in 2014, and for a long time they were a prime example of mainstream cryptocurrency usage. Unfortunately, this story came to a sad ending when the company decided to stop accepting bitcoin in the summer of 2018.With that being said, there are some interesting things that the blockchain community can learn from the reasons why Expedia started using bitcoin in the first place, and why they ended up canning it to return to fiat-only.
The idea behind this was for Expedia to capitalize on alternative methods of payment, and since Expedia customers had customers already requesting Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum were never intended to be used as an investment vehicle, but rather as a form of aVitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, famously
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