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๐ฐ ใLightspark CEO Unveils Grid Global Accounts at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegasใ
Lightspark CEO and former PayPal president David Marcus took the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas to announce the launch of Grid Global Accountsโa dollar-denominated payment layer built entirely on Bitcoin, connecting 175 million Visa merchants.
Grid Global Accounts? The moment I hear David Marcusโs name, I know itโs the same old playbook from traditional payments. A dollar-denominated layer? 175 million Visa merchants? That sounds like a banking system that treats Bitcoin as a settlement channel. This is nowhere close to the spirit of cryptoโitโs just centralized finance putting a shell over Bitcoin. No matter how well the code is written, it canโt change the essence. ๐๐๐๐๐