ChronoPay, a Russian international payment processing company, said that it will add the support of bitcoin payments to its platform.

The company said that, with bitcoin market potential showing tremendous growth in the year 2017 with its price reaching value of more than $2000, the huge and fast-growing market is set to be available for users in the ChronoPay platform.

“For a long time, I have been extremely skeptical about Bitcoins and blockade, including criticizing these initiatives in public, I hate the Komsomol very much, but having thoroughly studied the subject, I apologize to everyone – I’ve changed my point of view radically. It is a real revolution in the payment industry probably and we will do everything to participate in this movement. The first and simplest step out of our planned steps in this direction is to support payments in Bitcoin,” Pavel Vrublevsky, the founder of ChronoPay, stated.

ChronoPay payment platform provides the opportunity to accept bank cards of international payment systems such as VISA, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, Maestro and other popular regional payment systems. With support to more than 150 currencies worldwide, the company’s decision to add bitcoin payments shows the increasing demand for the cryptocurrency in Russia.