Mastercard provides bitcoin to 1 billion+ users and 100 million merchants worldwide.
What you need to know:
The card is a euro-denominated crypto debit card launched alongside Mercurio .
Users can spend bitcoin from custody wallets at over 100 million merchants worldwide
This is a huge step for Mastercard, building on a pilot project with MetaMask
This legitimizes bitcoin as an everyday currency
Even more important:
Direct Spending : Just like using a regular debit card. No need to convert to fiat first.
The card is compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Full Control : Users retain full control of their crypto assets in their self custody wallets.
This means that now another billion users from around the world will invade the crypto markets and cause the most epic surge in demand and buying of crypto coins.
Which will turn hundreds of thousands of those who are forward thinking into millionaires in just a few months.