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I'll point out that anyone selling in multiple currencies has to deal with hedging fx risk

Yes, and anyone whose business involves juggling chainsaws has to pay an awful lot for workplace insurance, but Bingo Card Creator doesn't involve chainsaws. Bitcoin proponents love to say "No transaction fees! Can your credit card processor do that?" while perhaps forgetting to mention that the actual mechanism for achieving this involves you juggling chainsaws.

Transaction fees are part of the spec for bitcoin. Who says there are no transaction fees?

I'm not sure why you were downvoted. Bitcoin definitely has transaction fees which will only increase with time.

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