Mastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This Year

[myshufflemix]

That's good news, following Visa then Mastercard followed the cryptocurrency boom.

Mastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This Year

The payments giant plans to support digital currency transactions directly on network.

www.coindesk.com

 

[khinkali]

Sensible. With US monetary inflation now well over 20% per year, it's time to diversify. The Mastercard announcement ought to be bigger news than Tesla putting less than 10% of its unused cash into BTC.

Also today:

$2 Trillion Banking Giant BNY Mellon Reveals Bitcoin And Crypto Plans—‘Digital Assets Are The Future’

New York-based banking giant BNY Mellon is jumping into the bitcoin and cryptocurrency game...

www.forbes.com

Now watch out for more announcements from Janet Yellen and Christine Lagarde, who would probably quite like to keep their monopoly (of) money...

 

[Chappers147]

That's good news, following Visa then Mastercard followed the cryptocurrency boom.

Mastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This Year

The payments giant plans to support digital currency transactions directly on network.

www.coindesk.com

Do you think they will start looking at incorporating more crypto currencies onto their platform?

I hear PayPal is going to start accepting litecoin?

 

[Fred]

And the show goes on:

North America’s First Bitcoin ETF Gets Green Light in Canada

Purpose Investments Inc. said Canadian securities regulators have cleared the launch of the Purpose Bitcoin ETF, making it the first to gain regulatory approval in North America.

www.bloomberg.com