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I think it will boil down to find out how many people out there are not willing to trust their agent with their credit card but are willing to give it a prepaid debit card - which effectively it's what Coinbase is providing, but dressing it as cryptocurrency.

It also means that if this starts getting any traction, then we could expect to start a nice bump in prepaid debit card adoption.