MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept crypto payments this year

Re:MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept cryp... by ilaksh on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:46AM (#26098633)

The point of cryptocurrency is that you don't need a private or government middleman.

My hope is that Ethereum 2.0 will become popular and there will be point of sale terminals that support it natively.

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Re:MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept cryp... by 0x008 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:56AM (#26098978)

With everybody using online wallets this particular aspect of crypto is long gone.

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Re:MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept cryp... by tal8d on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:58AM (#26099285)

There are over 30 million BTC addresses with a balance. So if everyone used "online wallets", they'd either have to be intentionally leaving dust in their exchange wallets, or there is some Superman 3 salami slicing going on and the exchanges have very patiently held off on sweeping up their ill-gotten gains.

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Re:MasterCard will give merchants the ability to accept cryp... by 0x008 on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:51AM (#26139874)

I was not aware that every single exchange only has 1 wallet for all of its users?

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