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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
But all of his belongings went flying everywhere.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
And in the end, he actually lost his wallet.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
And I mean, you can imagine you're traveling, you're in a country that you, you know, maybe you haven't visited before and you lose your physical wallet.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
Normally, you know, that's like a pretty big emergency.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
You need to, I don't know, find ways to get a new credit card.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
Maybe even like you change your plans.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
He instead...
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
Proceeded to do every transaction in Kenya and then later Nigeria because he didn't cut his trip short.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
He actually flew to Nigeria and continued.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
He did everything with Minipay.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
Minipay now lets you pay with M-Pesa anywhere in Kenya.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
In Nigeria, you can pay using the local rails there.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
In Argentina, for DevConnect, they launched Mercado Pago support.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
You can pay anywhere Mercado Pago is supported.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
In Brazil, you can pay with PIX, you know, et cetera.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
And so, you know, this is kind of probably a more useful use case for maybe some folks in your audience, you know, who might travel to crypto conferences and might find themselves in situations where, you know, credit cards might not be accepted.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
Increasingly, I think MiniPay will have folks like that covered.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
But I think the primary use cases still continue to be kind of the freelancer, the remittance use cases, and the savings use cases.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
And for those, maybe your listeners have friends and family who might be in those boats.
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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski
And if so, I'd highly recommend just directing those friends and family members to minipay.to because it just does a wonderful job with these use cases.