Mastercard is a billion-dollar company, according to this article,
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MA/mastercard/net-worth, its net worth as of October 26, 2021, rises to $356.09B, imagine how much money would circulate in the network of this company and how easy crypto transactions would be using one of the biggest financial company in the world.
From the very beginning, they announce accepting crypto, I can already see the huge impact in the future and we should consider this reason as the basis for still holding bitcoin long term.
Before now Ive seen Visa announced this same news that theyre going to be allowing users to make use of cryptocurrency on their platform, and its been years back since they announced it, though the last time I checked it happened that they were only accepting USDT.
I have also been expecting MasterCard to release this same feature, and it is good that they have finally released the same feature and will now allow Companies that are making use of their platform to be able to integrate cryptocurrency into their services. I am just hoping that theyre not going to limit the options available too much, at least there should be Bitcoin and some other altcoins to make a choice from.