Crypto payment option for Honda cars only works via third-party platform

cointelegraph.com:

Major automobile manufacturer Honda does not accept cryptocurrency payments directly, but people can use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) to buy a Honda car through a third party.

In early October, several publications mistakenly reported that Honda started accepting cryptocurrency as payment. But Honda doesn’t allow the purchase of its cars in exchange for crypto, a spokesperson for the firm told Cointelegraph, stating:

Honda didn’t respond to additional questions on its stance on crypto or whether the company plans to integrate cryptocurrency payments in the future.

While direct crypto payments for Honda automobiles aren’t available, people can still use cryptocurrency payment platforms like FCF Pay to buy a Honda car.

According to FCF Pay chief operating officer Joseph Parkin, Honda isn’t the only car brand that can be bought using crypto on the platform. “There are more car manufacturers on the list, including Mercedes, BMW, Ford, Nissan and Mitsubishi,” Parkin told Cointelegraph in early October.

He said that payments on FCF Pay are settled by a payment aggregator through the same payment rails that allow one to pay in cash in bank branches. “In the case of this payment flow, crypto really is acting as digital cash or the cash of the internet,” Parkin said. He added that only those companies that are part of the FCF Pay-deployed bill payment aggregation system are currently available.

The service is currently only available in the United States. Still, FCF Pay is working with additional partners to carry out crypto-to-fiat bill settlement in Mexico, several Latin American countries, multiple African nations and Asia, according to the exec. The bill payments system went live in September 2023, enabling one to buy