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Marek Olszewski

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481 total appearances

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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.