Crypto Wanted to Kill the Card Giants. Now the Card Giants Are Buying the Rails
Stablecoins were supposed to bypass Visa and Mastercard, not become their next growth engine Crypto...
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G'day I’m Oscar Harding, a Australia based crypto / web3 blogger / Summary writer and NFT artist. “Boomer in the blockchain.” I break down Web3 in plain English and make art in pencil, watercolour, Illustrator, AI, and animation. Off-chain: into combat sports, gold panning, cycling and fishing. If I don’t know it, I’ll dig in research, verify, and ask. Here to learn, share, and help onboard the next wave.
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