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The head of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, Brian Armstrong, believes that in order to take digital assets, it is necessary to reduce volatility, as well as to improve the scalability and use of coins.

Bitcoin will be ahead of other payment systems, such as Visa and MasterCard, within ten years, if the growth of the network continues at the same pace.

DataLight made such a forecast in a research comparing Bitcoin with traditional payment systems, which also included PayPal, noting the rapid development of cryptocurrency since its inception in 2009.

The world's largest payment system Visa was constantly opposed to Bitcoin from the very first steps of the Cryptocurrency. First, this, of course, concerned turnover and throughput of the network. By these parameters, Bitcoin is hopelessly losing. However, he was able to strike (albeit formal) on the other side. Since the beginning of December, the Bitcoin rate has been growing rapidly: only for one day on December 6 the price increased by 2 thousand dollars, and for December 7 - by 3 thousand (excluding peaks on individual exchanges, where there was an increase and $ 5,000 during the day)! On some Korean exchanges, the price in terms of the official won rate reached 20 thousand dollars!

The world's largest operator of payment cards Visa announced the launch of a pilot version of the payment service for the project B2B Connect, based on the technology of blockchain. The platform was announced by Visa last year and is intended to simplify cross-border payments through direct transfers between participants, excluding intermediaries. Security and transparency of payments are provided through distributed registry technology (DLT).