This has been a long time coming, ever since Visa began experimenting with their first crypto API in February.
It’s a massive leap forward in terms of both legitimizing Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency space, as well as integrating it in a meaningful way into systems that most consumers use every single day.
More interestingly, opening the floodgates by enabling direct crypto purchases on all 2.5 billion Visa cards would be a game-changer since it would make purchasing Bitcoin and other crypto assets far easier than ever before.
Crypto’s technological and economic implications are what interest him most, and he has one eye turned to the market whenever he’s not sleeping.