Musk Mails X Money Debit Cards to Thousands, Reviving 27-Year Push for a Financial OS
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Updated · InvestorPlace · Jun 13
Musk Mails X Money Debit Cards to Thousands, Reviving 27-Year Push for a Financial OS
1 articles · Updated · InvestorPlace · Jun 13
Summary
Thousands of Americans have begun receiving X Money debit cards, the first visible consumer rollout of Elon Musk’s plan to bundle payments, banking, investing and identity into one platform.
The push builds on Musk’s 2022 $44 billion Twitter acquisition, its rebrand to X, a Visa partnership and money-transmitter licenses in all 50 states to create the regulatory and distribution base for the service.
X Money is pitched as more than a peer-to-peer app: Musk says it will handle direct bank links, stock buying, portfolio management, paychecks, taxes and Social Security, with advertised yields of 4% to 6% APY.
Musk frames the launch as the revival of the X.com vision he started in 1999 before it became PayPal, arguing X can become an American analogue to WeChat’s finance ecosystem used by nearly 1 billion people.