Of course they transfer many of the bitcoins for USD. USD is accepted in more places. That's not hard to understand is it. Do you think the emergence of a new type of currency is going to suddenly end the dollar. That's silly. The BEST thing is for a payment processor to allow companies to accept both and decide how much of each they like to keep.

You're just closing your eyes to the advancement of bitcoin. A company like Dell is NOT going to back something they think will fail and they certainly won't promote it to other vendors. Dell knows that if more vendors accept bitcoin, the ecosystem will slowly change and not only will they pay less in fees accepting bitcoin, they'll also pay less buying things with bitcoin. If it becomes an established currency, that would also be a huge bonus to them AS IT WOULD EVERY HUMAN ON THE PLANET.

It boggles my mind that folks here think a system where a central bank and a banking system gets to create all new money and do with it as they choose...within "guidelines". It's not a coincidence that the gap between the wealthy and the poor grew at such a rapid rate after the 70s when the dollar went off the gold standard. Turns out, if you give groups of people absolute authority to create money, they'll enrich friends and family as much as possible--who'da thunk it.