Mastercard CEO: ‘Long Way to Go Before Crypto Becomes Mainstream’
The CEO of the payments giant Mastercard Michael Miebach argued that several elements need to come together before bitcoin (BTC) and crypto in general can go mainstream. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, the CEO was as...
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In an interview with Yahoo Finance, the CEO was asked if the day will come when everybody will be paying in bitcoin, and Miebach agreed that that could very well happen.
He said,
“Entirely possible, but I think it’s a long way to go before crypto becomes mainstream.”...
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