RE: LITEPAY LAUNCH.... DISAPPOINTING?
There's no doubt that financial giants like Visa and Mastercard wholeheartedly hate cryptocurrencies and see them as a threat to their business models. Commercial banks too are freaking out over crypto and want to cut it off from financial markets as much as possible.
This is the whole reason why Bitcoin and crypto's have seen their values rise and fall in humongous waves. If the banks and other financial institutions would just embrace crypto, their subsequent values would hold steady, and we wouldn't see so much turmoil in markets.
I say the crypto world needs to continue to put pressure on banks and companies live Visa and Mastercard to play nice. Banks do nothing but rob the world of its wealth anyway, and all of humanity needs an alternative to the greedy corporate bank structures were see today.
In America, banks control our entire economy and people are left penniless.
Maybe the way forward is to destroy the banks by shutting them out and pushing the world to adopt crypto only solutions. I wholeheartedly hate banks and hope they all fail, they're a disgrace to the modern world.
I agree with you when you said the banks controls most of the economy, if the world was ran by peer to peer transactions with no middle man and the countries will be run by the people and not just by the rich 1%... we would be living in a much freer world than we are now. That everything can be paid with cryptos, that would be great when the day comes it happens. I hate it when Credit Card companies tries to push cryptos away from us...
Cryptocurrencies do present some challenges as far as integration with standardized payments systems like those of Visa and Mastercard, such as constantly fluctuating market rates of crypto as compared to fiat currencies. But, real time updates within payment systems should be able to handle this issue fairly easily. The problem is, so far they don't work all that well.
This is why the online gaming giant Steam, stopped accepting Bitcoin transactions for games on its platform, because they couldn't properly update the price fluctuations of bitcoin fast enough to integrate with their prices.
So, besides the banks and financial institutions hating crypto, there appears to be other challenges facing Crypto from a technological standpoint as well. In the case of Steam, they stated that acknowledgement of transactions with Bitcoin were often very slow, this created a problem because merchants need to know that a transaction has processed/been accepted, before following through with delivering products and services.
So, there's a lot of issues at hand. But payment processors like Visa and Mastercard should do the world a favor stop running from Crypto, and instead find ways to make it integrate better with their payment systems.