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"Autosell" is the term Mt. Gox uses as the name for the parameter in the shopping button API to sell immediately once the transaction has confirmed.

But that's the thing. Merchants are worried about the downside risk, and basically ignore that there is an upside gain possible as well. Sure, the merchant shouldn't be speculating with revenues that go to employee's salaries and inventory purchases, but if there's 10% profit, keeping 10% of revenues without converting that to USDs might be beneficial.

BitPay is a merchant processor that lets the merchant specify what percent of revenue to convert and remainder of bitcoins are paid out without conversion.



Eh, if I want to gamble, I'll go to a casino. I pay my employees in Euros, that's what I want revenue in. I even want it exchanged from dollars, so I get X Euros every time.

The autosell feature means I can add Bitcoin as a payment method with no hassle, I'm enjoying it greatly.




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