BitCart, an Irish startup competing with the likes of Gyft, has taken the unusual step of abandoning Bitcoin and now allows customers to pay for their Amazon gift cards with Dash only. The cards, purchased at a discount, effectively give holders a 15 percent saving on Amazon products. The scheme will shortly expand to include hotels.com. CEO Graham de Barra said:
“Bitcoin as a method of payment on BitCart is simply not sustainable and it's a nightmare from a merchant point of view; every twenty or so transactions the platform would stop working and we would have to reintegrate the API."