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Elon Musk may be preparing to place blockchain payments in front of hundreds of millions of ordinary people—without requiring them to understand cryptocurrency at all.

X is reportedly exploring using stablecoins such as Circle’s USDC to pay creators and content providers around the world. The discussions are still ongoing and X has not confirmed a final stablecoin partner, supported blockchain or launch date. However, X Money is already operating as an invite-only financial service in the United States, offering peer-to-peer payments, an X-branded Visa card and bank-account-like features.

Could stablecoins become the missing link between X’s creators, its payment system and Elon Musk’s long-promised “everything app”? And is Musk quietly building a financial network capable of competing with PayPal, Venmo and Cash App?

In today’s Crypto News Today Deep Dive, we investigate:

• What X is reportedly discussing with stablecoin providers
• How USDC could be used to pay creators internationally
• Why stablecoins make more sense for payments than Bitcoin or Dogecoin
• How X Money already works and why it is not technically a bank
• The importance of X’s new Original Content Rewards Program
• How blockchain payments could reduce international delays and conversion costs
• Why most users may never realise that a blockchain is processing their money
• How creator payments, subscriptions, advertising, tipping and shopping could eventually connect
• Whether X could transform its enormous social network into a global financial network
• What the development could mean for USDC, stablecoins and mainstream crypto adoption
• Why there is still no confirmation that Dogecoin will be integrated into X Money
• The regulatory, custody, security and account-freezing risks users would need to consider
• Whether X can earn enough trust to hold people’s salaries, savings and creator income
• Our verdict on whether X Money could genuinely become the crypto version of PayPal

The biggest cryptocurrency adoption story may not involve Bitcoin replacing the dollar or Dogecoin becoming the currency of X. It could begin with creators receiving ordinary dollar-denominated payments that are quietly settled through blockchain technology behind the screen.

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Tell us in the comments: Would you trust Elon Musk’s X to hold and move your money? If you received creator earnings through X Money, would you keep them there or withdraw everything immediately?

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