BREAKDOWN: Visa Just Supercharged Stablecoin Legitimacy
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Visa officially enables USDC as a native currency and means of settlement.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper.
Today’s episode of “The Breakdown” is an extended brief with five different topics:
- NFTs make it to “SNL”
- “Green” bitcoin mining
- Square’s CFO thinks all companies should hold bitcoin in their treasuries
- Crypto M&A doubles in 2020
- Visa announces USDC as settlement currency
Ultimately, NLW argues that while non-fungible tokens are showing up in pop culture, the Visa deal reinforces the notion that this crypto bull market is being driven by large-scale institutional engagement.
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| 0:49.7 | NFTs may be showing up on SNL, but it's the institutionalization of Bitcoin and now clearly |
| 0:55.8 | stablecoins in Ethereum that is driving this bull market, and I see no signs of that changing. |
| 1:02.6 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the |
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| 1:13.1 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io and Casper and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:20.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, March 29th, and today we are talking about how Visa |
| 1:25.5 | might have just supercharged stable coin legitimacy. |
| 1:29.5 | And this episode is one of the extended brief styles, five topics, each about a similar |
| 1:35.0 | length, some a little bit shorter than others, but there are just a lot of things that I wanted |
| 1:38.5 | to touch on briefly. So without any further ado, let's dive in. First, let's discuss NFTs making it to SNL. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm sure that you've seen it by now, but the Saturday Night Live cast led by Pete Davidson |
| 1:49.9 | did a full song about NFTs to the tune of Eminem's Without Me. |
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