{"id":31417,"date":"2025-06-11T18:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31417"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:31:33","slug":"crypto-payments-gain-ground-but-travel-industry-adoption-remains-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31417","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Payments Gain Ground, But Travel Industry Adoption Remains Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto payments are gaining traction but face significant barriers to mainstream adoption in the travel industry due to consumer discomfort with wallet-based transactions, according to Mathias Lundoe Nielsen, founder and CEO of EnTravel. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Benzinga, Nielsen emphasized that mainstream consumers find crypto wallets inconvenient, predicting that crypto-linked cards and stablecoin-based agent transactions will drive future adoption. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult for lot of the normal mainstream consumers to work with wallets, non-custodial or custodial, it doesn&#8217;t matter. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not comfortable, it&#8217;s not fast, it&#8217;s not easy, it&#8217;s not convenient,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen highlighted the rise of crypto cards, such as those offered by <strong>BitGet<\/strong>, <strong>EtherFi<\/strong>, and <strong>Bybit<\/strong>, which provide cashback and ease of use, making them a more appealing option for travelers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These master cards connected to crypto holdings\u2026 This is a big trend because the cards are giving cash back and people are okay using their crypto when they pay with the card,&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45890931\/crypto-payments-gain-ground-but-travel-industry-adoption-remains-limited\" alt=\"Crypto\" payments gain ground but travel industry adoption remains limited>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto payments are gaining traction but face significant barriers to mainstream adoption in the travel industry due to consumer discomfort with wallet-based transactions, according to Mathias Lundoe Nielsen, founder and CEO of EnTravel. In an interview with Benzinga, Nielsen emphasized that mainstream consumers find crypto wallets inconvenient, predicting that crypto-linked cards and stablecoin-based agent transactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}