Visa CEO Alfred Kelly says the card scheme is preparing its payments network to handle a full range of cryptocurrency assets. Visa, a one-time enemy of the bitcoin and cryptocurrency community, is fast becoming one of bitcoin\u2019s biggest cheerleaders.Bitcoin and crypto custodian Anchorage, last month becoming the first U.S. national \u201cdigital asset bank\u201d after it was granted approval for a national trust charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), will hold the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies on behalf of Visa\u2019s clients.It\u2019s understood banks will be able to allow their users to withdraw and self-custody their bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.After partnering with 35 various bitcoin and cryptocurrency platforms in recent years, the credit card company has announced it plans to help banks roll out bitcoin and cryptocurrency buying and trading services with a Visa crypto software program, set to launch later this year.In an earnings call with analysts, Kelly says the company will treat the crytocurrency market as two distinct segments: traditional cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and Ether; and fiat-backed digital currencies including stablecoins and central bank digital currencies.Visa rival PayPal , which sparked the latest bitcoin price bull run when it announced plans to allow its 346 million users to buy and spend bitcoin and a handful of other major cryptocurrencies in October, attracted criticism for preventing people from moving their cryptocurrencies off its platform.For the first segment, Visa will work with \u201cwallets and exchanges to enable users to purchase these currencies using their Visa credentials or to cash out onto a Visa credential to make a fiat purchase at any of the 70 million merchants where Visa\u2019s accepted globally\u201d.This is similar to card scheme\u2019s to connect with closed loop wallets such as Line Pay and PaytmVisa has already struck card deals with some 35 organisations in\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
O CEO da Visa, Alfred Kelly, diz que o esquema de cart\u00f5es est\u00e1 preparando sua rede de pagamentos para lidar com uma gama completa de ativos de criptomoeda. Visa, um antigo inimigo da [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}