{"id":78735,"date":"2018-08-26T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=78735"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:03:43","slug":"bitcoin-transaction-volume-tops-paypal-creeps-up-on-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-transaction-volume-tops-paypal-creeps-up-on-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Transaction Volume Tops PayPal, Creeps Up on Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To many, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin\u2019s<\/a> shot at &#8220;real-world&#8221; utility is defined by the yardstick of Visa\u2019s transactional throughput; yet, the original cryptocurrency now purportedly handles more annual transacted value than PayPal\u2014and appears to be gaining on Visa, fast.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting $1.3 trillion processed in 2018 alone, the dollar value of all Bitcoin transactions has effectively outstripped online payment processor PayPal and Discover credit card, and stands \u201can order of magnitude away from Visa,&#8221; according to Yassine Elmandjra, a cryptocurrency analyst at ARK Invest, a New York-based investment firm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Look \ud83d\udc40 at the transaction *value*, NOT the transaction *volume*. $3-4 B worth of bitcoin has been transacted daily in the last year. At ~ $1.3T annually, Bitcoin\u2019s base layer transactional value is within an order of magnitude away from Visa\u2019s. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KhGva4I1rB\">pic.twitter.com\/KhGva4I1rB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yassine Elmandjra (@yassine_elman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yassine_elman\/status\/1032353131215106050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Visa handled a lofty <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.visa.com\/dam\/VCOM\/global\/about-visa\/documents\/visa-facts-figures-jan-2017.pdf\">$8.9 trillion<\/a> in 2016, Bitcoin appears to have a long road ahead to dethrone the U.S.-based payment giant in terms of transaction value; yet the numbers tell a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has exhibited a seemingly relentless rate of growth, with 2017 seeing an eruptive, eightfold increase in transaction value.<\/p>\n<p>Should it continue its current trajectory\u2014an 80.17 percent increase per year from 2013 to 2018\u00a0 Bitcoin will overtake Visa in 2022, theoretically handling over $13 trillion in payments.<\/p>\n<h2>Value vs Throughput: Bitcoin\u2019s Existential Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>Unlike the more contrived, market-specific payment protocols in recent years, Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s decidedly hands-off creation of Bitcoin seems to have spawned an age-old debate over the cryptocurrency\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Where some suggest the coin should scale to the high transactional throughput of payment giants like Visa, others maintain Bitcoin was created purely for high-value transactions and remain unfazed by the cryptocurrency's slow confirmation times and high transaction fees.<\/p>\n<p>Elmandjra would appear to land in the latter, stating that Bitcoin was \u201cnever supposed to\u201d reach such levels of throughput. In contrast to the aforementioned tweet, the analyst displayed another chart with Bitcoin\u2019s more humbling base layer throughput:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bitcoin\u2019s base layer transaction volume doesn\u2019t compare to Visa\u2019s, MC\u2019s et al. But it was never supposed to. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jiPpxR4SOQ\">pic.twitter.com\/jiPpxR4SOQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yassine Elmandjra (@yassine_elman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yassine_elman\/status\/1032353127800991750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All existential questions aside, some claim value is not a worthy means to measure adoption. One user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antiprosynth\/status\/1032414387615674370\">suggested<\/a> in Elmandjra's thread that the bulk of Bitcoin transactions come from \u201cspeculative trading\u201d and a comparison with Visa \u201ccouldn\u2019t be more apples to oranges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77586\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77586 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/btc-cash-headed-way-slipt-social-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Related:\u00a0<a title=\"A Three-Headed Mess: Bitcoin Cash Headed Toward Messy Three-Way Split\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/a-three-headed-mess-bitcoin-cash-headed-toward-messy-three-way-split\/\">A Three-Headed Mess: Bitcoin Cash Headed Toward Messy Three-Way Split<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, the news may come as music to many ears, as the Bitcoin community juggles a plethora of scalability solutions including the second-layer Lightning Network and the more intrinsic SegWit, as well as external solutions, namely the Bitcoin die-hard\u2019s antithesis, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin-cash\/\">Bitcoin Cash<\/a>\u2014all of which may now be figurative cherries on top of a possible salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To many, Bitcoin\u2019s shot at &#8220;real-world&#8221; utility is defined by the yardstick of Visa\u2019s transactional throughput; yet, the original cryptocurrency now purportedly handles more annual transacted value than PayPal\u2014and appears to be gaining on Visa, fast. 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