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On November 17, Amazon, the largest Internet marketplace, announced that it would discontinue Visa payments. This has led to a massive user turn to MasterCard.

Bitcoin has now reached a market cap (MC) of over $1.13 trillion whereas Visa combined with MasterCard have a market cap of about $864 billion. This is a clear indication that the world's original cryptocurrency is more attractive than the two giant financial services added together.

A financial services company dealing in processing digital payments between the banking institutions of merchants and the card-issuing banks, MasterCard, is capitalizing in an investment project aimed at financial inclusion of the underbanked.

A multinational payment bull MasterCard offers a virtual platform to test the potential of central bank digital currency (CBDC). The company wants to help central banks globally that are planning to develop, analyze and explore their state-backed virtual currencies.

The Facebook Libra cryptocurrency project is constantly losing the backing of mainstream giants. The latest businesses to quit cooperation with this digital currency include Visa, Mastercard, eBay and Stripe following suit after Paypal announcement to quit cooperation as regulators move on with scrutinizing Libra.

On Friday September 13, MasterCard Incorporated, an American multinational financial services corporation based in New York, United States, announced its partnership with enterprise blockchain tech company R3 to design distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based international and transborder payments.

One day, it will be possible for all consumers to charge their purchased items on their charge card or credit cards using cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. Mastercard won a patent on July 17 to bergh a method that would properly manage "fractional reserves of all blockchain currency." At this moment in time, all Mastercard bearers can only pay for items using official currency the government has announced as legal tender, said the Mastercard's Senior Vice President for communications, Seth Eisen.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a patent application from Mastercard for a system and method that uses blockchain technology for payment card verification at the point-of-scale (PoS). Mastercard filed this patent in December 2016.

Mastercard has joined the world’s fintech movement, filing a patent for a blockchain technology system. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released an application stating this fact on April 12. Blockchain is seen as a key factor for safeguarding customers’ personal data.