Over the last several years, cryptocurrency has experienced some significant changes. It has gone from humble beginnings as a medium used in transactions (two pizzas were traded for 10,000 BTC in the first cryptocurrency exchange) to a digital asset seen more as an investment than a true system of payment in transactions.
However, the role of cryptocurrency may be starting to shift again to be more in line with its original mission to function as an electronic cash system for transactions. So, will the next step be a cryptocurrency debit card? And does cryptocurrency really need to be used as a payment method to be adopted more thoroughly into the mainstream?