This seems like a big deal...

thedogekid -

Mastercard to announce plan to allow merchants to accept bitcoin and pay bitcoin rewards

Not sure on the specifics yet, but this sounds like a big deal.

Mastercard is big time in the payments sector...

(Source: https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1452626242210045958/photo/1)

Though I don't see payments as the holy grail for bitcoin...

So we will see how big this is.