Just imagine if this extraordinary flood of software development talent could be deployed in the decentralized digital currency space where it would lead to reduced transactional friction, shorter clearing times, massively lower processing fees, optional buyer anonymity, and finality of merchant payment.

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The MDS transmits financial messages between acquirers and issuers and provides transactional and statistical reporting and performs settlement between customers and other debit transaction processing networks.

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