Chris Maurice, CEO of Nigeria-based crypto exchange Yellow Card, made his first business venture into the crypto space back in 2015, selling Bitcoin (BTC) on eBay. "We did that for about a week and we did over $40,000 in sales at a 100% markup," Maurice told Cointelegraph in an interview. "We were seeing stars at this point," he recounted, describing his euphoria at the time. The CEO first learned about Bitcoin in 2013 through a friend — Justin Poiroux, the co-founder of Yellow Card exchange, although Yellow Card was not formed until later, unrelated to the eBay endeavor. While surfing …

An American survey conducted by the Boston Retail Partners, suggests that 8% of North American retailers are planning on accepting Bitcoin within 12 months, and 5% within 1 to 3 years. Boston Retail Partners' annual POS/Customer Engagement Benchmarking Survey, polled more than 500 top North American retailers in November and December 2014, to gain insight into their planned initiatives, priorities and future trends. The report indicated that Apple Pay and Paypal, will lead the payment market in 2016, with 30% of the respondents having plans to adopt the former, and 18%, the ladder. Apple Pay is designed to utilize tokenisation …