For an entire half-decade there have been payment processors that made it seamless for businesses to accept bitcoin and cash some or all of it out immediately if they wanted to.
If it takes a $100 million fund raise article for you to ask why everyone else isn't crazy, c'est la vie. People look for validation all manner of ways.
Coinbase also has merchant services that allow for immediate cash outs. This is probably one of cryptocurrency's smallest markets.
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying in the first two sentences? Neat to know that you can cash out immediately though; that makes more sense.
Are the vendors that accept BTC pricing their goods based on the current exchange rate for 1 BTC? ie. I price product A at $1500USD, I then say I accept BTC, so when someone puts it in the shopping cart it converts $1500USD to BTC and charges them that amount?
Sorry, just not familiar and trying to figure out how it works. I haven't came across anyone that accepts BTC (although I haven't looked either).
Some vendors and some listing sites show at least two exchange rates. National currency and the cryptocurrency of choice.
Stripe and Coinbase give the options of automatic conversion to the cryptocurrency exchange rate when displaying it.
Some merchants, usually more established ones like Microsoft, Newegg, Namecheap, typically won't show the bitcoin price until you chose that option and they generate the timed invoice.
If it takes a $100 million fund raise article for you to ask why everyone else isn't crazy, c'est la vie. People look for validation all manner of ways.
Coinbase also has merchant services that allow for immediate cash outs. This is probably one of cryptocurrency's smallest markets.