No, it is a meaningful distinction for some. For those of us hoping to avoid the overhead of payment processors by using bitcoin, it puts the two methods on equal footing instead - there&#x27;s still a middleman taking a (likely nontrivial) cut from our purchases.<p>Also, I imagine CNY -&gt; USD conversion is probably done on an exchange instead of through a company like BitPay, so the comparison might not be very accurate.