For Bitcoin and Crypto, a Week of Mainstreaming Moments
From NFTs on “Saturday Night Live” to Goldman Sachs reversing course on bitcoin, it was a week of widening audiences.
Apr 3, 2021
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From NFTs on “Saturday Night Live” to Goldman Sachs reversing course on bitcoin, it was a week of widening audiences.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On this edition of “The Breakdown” Weekly Recap, NLW looks at a set of mainstream moments including:
- “SNL” doing a song about NFTs
- Visa accepting USDC on Ethereum as a native settlement currency
- PayPal opening crypto checkout to 29 million merchants
- Goldman Sachs opening bitcoin investment programs
- Chipotle’s “bitcoin and burritos” promotion
See also: SNL Skit Uses Kate McKinnon’s ‘Janet Yellen’ and Slim Shady to Explain NFTs
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Nathaniel Whittemore
NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.
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