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If you do that, you'll realize that accepting Bitcoin has higher fees than credit cards. People won't understand this if their identity depends on them not understanding it.



Coinbase charges only 1% !!

I do not know of any credit card that charges the merchant less, when monthly account fees are added in.


You missed the point. If you (or your payment provider) add, say, 5% padding to account for exchange rate volatility and then you also pay 1% to Coinbase, your total fees are 6% which is way higher than credit cards.




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