Bitcoin is the original decentralized payment network and remains the most globally recognized crypto settlement asset. Its value in payment infrastructure is not smart-contract flexibility, but resilience, recognizability, and direct value transfer without platform custody.
Bitcoin behaves differently from EVM checkout flows. There is no equivalent smart-contract payment splitter model here, so the product approach is naturally more direct and less contract-heavy. That difference is important when comparing fee handling, wallet support, and how merchant payment capacity is modeled.
Even when Bitcoin is not the same type of chain as an EVM payment route, it still matters for merchants because it is one of the strongest assets for direct cross-border settlement and store-of-value oriented payment requests.