this is highly significant development to watch for 1 simple reason, proliferation of nodes where digital currencies can be paid for in exchange of goods and services creates actual real world demand and therefore a reference price trend and value for the underlying digital currency.
the ones that continue to perpetuate the "buy to hold" until the capital value of the underlying asset reaches a targeted value, are the ones who are trying to play everyone.
in the article, there is an instance where Thibaut Boutrou, COO of the Meria platform, tried to play down the significance by articulating: Quote < To witness a true breakthrough, observes Boutrou, one would need to see even more conservative players, such as large traditional private banks or even governments, actively joining the crypto ecosystem. It is indeed from those historic and change-resistant institutions that the most significant leap is expected. > End Quote.
it seems that Boutrou is unaware or unwilling to acknowledge that competitors such as Circle and every central bank of major financial hubs (US, China, Japan, Abu Dhabi, Switzerland) are already past the operational - implementation phase of digitial currency cross exchange and intermarket messaging akin to the more tradditional American SWIFT payment protocol.
