The CEO of crypto merchant platform BitPay Stephen Pair stated that speculation on future adoption drives Bitcoin's price more than "Actual utility," in an interview on CNBC Dec. 13.
"A very big component of the price is certainly speculation. It's investors that are speculating on the future usage and adoption of this technology. I'm sure a small component of that price is the actual utility."
"I do think we'll see those kinds of prices at some point in the future, if history is any guide."
"I used to say 10 years, but now I think it's more like 3-5 years until you can go into a restaurant, a retail establishment, and just everybody's going to expect that that store will be able to accept a blockchain payment."
Pair then further noted that he was not just referring to "Bitcoin or the various tokens that we see today [but] also about issuing dollars on a blockchain or euros on a blockchain."
According to Hester Peirce, a commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the approval of a Bitcoin ETF is not necessarily close at hand.
As Cointelegraph recently reported earlier this month, Peirce said that an approval "Could be 20 years from now" or "Tomorrow," urging the crypto community to not " hold [its] breath.
A study published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance this week stated that the number of verified cryptocurrency users nearly doubled this year.
A Bloomberg analysis of the study claims that the increase in crypto's user base, despite prices declining, "Could signal that an eventual recovery could be coming."
Blockchain Payments' Mass Adoption Is 3-5 Years Away, Says BitPay CEO
gepubliceerd op Dec 15, 2018
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