Fiat Wallets: The Key to Bitcoin Going Mainstream?
Jack C. Liu is head of international at OKCoin and OKLink. He is based in Beijing and previously held roles at Barclays Capital and bitcoin exchange Kraken. In this article, he explores whether the crypto industry should be pushing fiat wallets, rather than bitcoin wallets, if it wants digital currency to go mainstream. Since bitcoin was introduced in 2009, we have seen endless efforts to make it mainstream. These efforts have spanned the launches of the world's 'easiest bitcoin web wallet', 'easiest bitcoin mobile wallet', 'consumer multi-sig wallets' and 'easiest way to buy bitcoins'.....
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