Fundos de investimento em direitos creditórios: sua influência sobre o mercado de capitais

Abstract

This paper presents and analyzes the perspective of establishments and service providers that receive cryptocurrencies as a form of payment. In the first moment are presented the emergence and evolution of the crypto-coins, the characteristics and discursions about their natures, as well as the current regulation. The work also shows the value grow and popularization of bitcoin and other virtual currencies in the international market. In the domestic market, it points out the development of the exchanges and the growing number of transactions. In the last section we present the profile of the agents that receive cryptocurrencies as payment, the reason they started working with these assets, the purpose of the currencies received, the impact of these transactions on their respective businesses and the opinion on the use of crypto-coins as a means of exchange, dividing individuals by the time they operate in this market in order to separate the profiles of those who entered before and during the great expansion of 2017 and during the decline of the virtual currencies occurred in 2018