{"id":21503,"date":"2025-04-10T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:32:03","slug":"stablecoins-are-doing-for-money-what-whatsapp-did-for-messaging-crypto-venture-capitalist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21503","title":{"rendered":"Stablecoins Are Doing For Money What WhatsApp Did For Messaging, Crypto Venture Capitalist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Chris Dixon<\/strong>, managing partner at venture firm <strong>a16z<\/strong> crypto, says blockchain-based stablecoins are transforming the global payments landscape in the same way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/25\/04\/44709542\/investors-just-poured-3m-into-this-whatsapp-job-app-for-hispanic-immigrants-and-its-already-helping-800-find-work\"><strong>WhatsApp <\/strong>upended costly international phone calls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In a blog post published on Thursday, Dixon <a href=\"https:\/\/a16zcrypto.com\/posts\/article\/stablecoins-payments-without-intermediaries\/\">outlines<\/a> how stablecoins are emerging as internet-native alternatives to legacy financial networks bogged down by fees, delays and multiple intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The internet made information free and global. So why is it still so hard \u2014 and expensive \u2014 to move money?&#8221; Dixon asks. <\/p>\n<p>He points out that a $200 international remittance still costs an average of 6.62% in fees, which he calls a regressive tax on the world&#8217;s poorest workers.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins\u2014cryptocurrencies pegged to assets like the US dollar like <strong>USDT <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44733933\/stablecoins-are-doing-for-money-what-whatsapp-did-for-messaging-crypto-venture-capitalist-\" alt=\"Stablecoins\" are doing for money what whatsapp did messaging crypto venture capitalist says>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dixon, managing partner at venture firm a16z crypto, says blockchain-based stablecoins are transforming the global payments landscape in the same way WhatsApp upended costly international phone calls. What Happened: In a blog post published on Thursday, Dixon outlines how stablecoins are emerging as internet-native alternatives to legacy financial networks bogged down by fees, delays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-21503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}