A prediction made more than a decade ago about closer ties between Bitcoin startups and traditional payment companies increasingly resembles the payments market of 2026.
Summary
- A 2014 prediction about traditional payment firms partnering with Bitcoin startups increasingly resembles today’s market.
- Visa and Mastercard now work directly with crypto firms on cards, settlement, stablecoins, and payments.
- BitPay continues expanding regulated crypto payment services more than a decade after joining the payments industry.
Former Electronic Transactions Association CEO Jason Oxman discussed that possibility in an August 2014 interview with CoinDesk. His comments followed…
