Smart Fabrics Can Take Bitcoin Payments To Mainstream Consumers
Determining the future of payments will not be an easy feat, even though various companies around the world are trying to come up with new and attractive payment options. Wearables have been considered to be the next logical step in the evolution of contactless payments for quite some time now. But what if smart fabrics are proving to be a better alternative? Integrating payments into smart fabrics could be a major challenge though. Smart Fabrics And Frictionless Payments. Technology allows us to achieve many great things, and drastically changes the way our society works and thinks. That....
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