Crypto Payments Won't Scale Without Convenience w/ Davi Strazza (Lightspark)

About this episode

Davi Strazza discusses the challenges and opportunities in scaling crypto payments and the role of Bitcoin in modern payment infrastructure.

Presented by Stablecon; Powered by BVNK. In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Davi Strazza, Chief Business Officer at Lightspark, an 11-year Adyen veteran who helped grow the company from $30B to over $1.3T in payments volume before joining a 50-person startup building on Bitcoin rails. They unpack why Davi believes the moment to rebuild payments infrastructure from first principles is now, how Lightspark uses Bitcoin as an invisible transport layer to move money across 65 countries, and why crypto will never reach the scale it deserves unless it becomes as easy as tapping a card. Subscribe and listen to the Money Code podcast here: https://lnk.to/MoneyCodeSN Chapters 00:00 Why leave $1.3T in payments for a 50-person startup? 02:44 Three problem spaces, one infrastructure play 05:55 The Bitcoin sandwich: fiat in, crypto transport, fiat out 09:41 "Bitcoin is volatile" — why sub-second settlement changes the math 12:39 The import-exporter who flies cash on planes 17:02 B2B is the bigger prize: treasury, payroll, creator payouts 21:39 "The plumbing is necessary — it's just not sufficient" 26:47 Are we innovating in the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chuk Okpalugo, Raj Parekh

Guest: Davi Strazza

Topics covered

• crypto payments
• Bitcoin infrastructure
• payment scalability
• B2B payments
• financial technology
• global expansion

Keywords

• crypto payments
• Bitcoin
• payment infrastructure
• scalability
• B2B payments
• financial technology
• Adyen
• Lightspark

Sponsors

Stablecon, BVNK

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lightspark, Adyen

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