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5 companies building infrastructure behind crypto payments
Most people are comfortable paying with cash or cards, and are just getting used to tap-to-pay. Now, crypto is entering the mix. Like credit cards in their early days, crypto payments once felt foreign and complicated. And just as cards faced skepticism decades ago, crypto payments are facing familiar hurdles of fraud concerns, merchant resistance over fees, regulatory uncertainty, and operational friction. Credit cards didn’t become mainstream overnight. Their mass adoption began only in the 1980s and became a normal payment method in the 1990s. Their breakthrough came when fraud detection improved, electronic ... (full story)
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