The cryptocurrency payments are on the verge of disrupting the global financial systems.
Such a compelling thesis has been presented by Ripple executive Reece Merrick in his recent post on the X social media.
In 2000, the dot-com bubble was bursting and buying things online was globally negligible, estimated at roughly 0.2% of all retail sales. People simply didn’t trust the web with their money yet.
Just as global e-commerce spent its first decade being dismissed as overhyped, it… pic.twitter.com/TfEetYuL83
— Reece Merrick (@reece_merrick) June 24, 2026
According to Merrick, the burgeoning cryptocurrency sector is mirroring the growth trajectory of e-commerce, which was also dismissed as a bizarre novelty in the early 2000s…
