THE HASH: Binance Partners With Mastercard to Launch Crypto Card in Brazil; The Debate Over NFTs on Bitcoin
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The most valuable crypto stories for Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.
"The Hash" hosts hash out today's hot topics, including Binance partnering with Mastercard to launch a prepaid crypto card in Brazil; Amazon's rumored push into Web3; why are NFTs being allowed on Bitcoin is sparking heated debate online; and why the English Premier League link up with digital trading card platform Sorare.
See also:
Binance Partners With Mastercard to Launch Prepaid Crypto Card in Brazil
Artists Weigh In on the Battle Over NFT Creator Royalties
Premier League Inks Deal With Digital Trading Card Platform Sorare
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| 0:00.0 | This is the hash podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more, |
| 0:15.4 | with stories that matter to the crypto world, all on the hash for your ears. |
| 0:24.0 | You're listening to the Coin Desk Podcast Network. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, happy Monday, and welcome to another week of The Hash here on CoinDest TV. I'm Zach Seward. We got Wendy O, Will Foxley, Jen Sanasi. We're going to talk about some stuff that stood out to us from the flow of the crypto news cycle. |
| 0:41.5 | And we're going to start off with Jen. What do you got? |
| 0:44.7 | All right. Well, Binance and MasterCard have partnered to bring a prepaid crypto card to Brazil. |
| 0:51.2 | The card is going to allow users to make payments using 13 different cryptos, |
| 0:55.9 | including Bitcoin, Ether, and Finance, USD. There are some fees associated with using the card. |
| 1:02.5 | It's going to charge 0.9% per transaction and offer up to 8% back in crypto rewards. |
| 1:10.5 | Not the first time we've seen an exchange partner up with a big credit card company. |
| 1:15.1 | This time it's finance and MasterCard in Brazil. |
| 1:18.2 | Will, I'm going to kick this one off to you. |
| 1:19.8 | We spoke about South America recently. |
| 1:22.3 | The government's getting together, trying to solve some of their fiscal issues, |
| 1:26.0 | and now we have some crypto exchanges, you know, |
| 1:28.8 | trying to address the same problems in maybe a different way. That's right, Jen. Happy Monday morning. |
| 1:33.2 | I think this is an interesting story because it talks about the privatization of money, right? |
| 1:37.1 | Two companies, one, a web two, really legacy product in MasterCard and one, a Web3, Binance, |
| 1:43.4 | coming together, trying to make something |
| 1:44.9 | innovative for everyday people who just want to be able to move their money around for cheap, |
| 1:49.1 | right? It's really the goal of all crypto, moving my money around securely and cheaply. |
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