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Day 4 of proving you can pay for things in Kenya using #bitcoin only! Paid our Maasai guides in Amboseli with bitcoin and they received Kenyan Shillings instantly. For tourists and visitors alike, you don’t need cash, a local SIM card, or a bank card that may or may not work while visiting Kenya. With just your bitcoin, a Lightning wallet, and the @tando_me app, you can pay across the country as easily as a local using mobile money.

NEW: YouTuber Casey Neistat, with over 12M subscribers, visits 🇸🇻 El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach for the first time 👀

Top 50 Bitcoin Treasury Companies as of May 11, 2026

@MeesWynants This is why Bitcoin

Starting July 2027 cash payments above €10,000 are illegal across all 27 EU member states. Every transaction above €3,000 requires ID. Splitting payments to avoid the cap is also illegal. Crypto is government verified. The digital euro pilot starts the same year. Fully traceable. Issued and monitored by the central bank. They say it is about money laundering. It is always about control.

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Bitcoin holder buys 3 BTC for $30,000 in 2020. Worth $240,000 today. May arrives. The down payment on the house is $80,000. If he sells 1 BTC, he triggers $70,000 in capital gains. Pays $14,000 in tax. Walks away with $66,000. Short on the down payment. Loses a third of his stack forever. Instead, he posts 2 of his 3 BTC as collateral and borrows $80,000. Keeps every sat. Leaves 1 BTC free of any lien. Pays $8,280 in interest over 12 months. House closes. Stack still growing. IRS gets $0.

Why don’t Strategyᴮ buys move Bitcoin price? 🤔 @saylor explained it pretty well: Strategy has bought tens of billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin over time, yet even $100M-$300M buys often barely move the market. Why? Because Bitcoin is already an insanely deep global market. Spot volume alone is often $20B-$30B daily Derivatives can add another $50B-$80B+ Trades happen globally 24/7 So a $100M buy sounds huge… - but inside a $50B+ daily liquidity pool, it’s actually pretty small. That’s what makes Bitcoin special: - the world’s deepest, most liquid digital capital market.

COINBASE: NO MARGIN CALLS FOR BITCOIN-BACKED MORTGAGES Coinbase says its crypto-backed mortgages will carry rates around 0.5% to 1.5% higher than a standard 30-year, depending on borrower profile. Loans feature no margin calls or collateral top-ups. BTC price drops do not change loan terms or trigger liquidation. Collateral is only at risk after 60 days of missed payments, aligning with traditional mortgage standards.

NEW: Over 24+ major financial institutions have already adopted Bitcoin & crypto.

@BitcoinNewsCom @Boltzhq What are the fees on the swap? 👀

NEW: @Boltzhq launches trustless Bitcoin-to-USDC swaps with no account, no KYC, and no custodial risk. Users keep control of their BTC until the USDC arrives in their wallet.

In a time where the EU looks to impose its Digital Euro and eliminate cash from circulation, Switzerland voted to enshrine a “right to cash” into its Constitution. This is the way forward for countries. All EU countries should follow suit.

21M Bitcoin. • Individuals – 11,800,000 BTC • Lost – 3,500,000 BTC • Spot ETFs – 1,500,000 BTC • Public Companies – 1,218,000 BTC • Other (exchanges, miners…) – 1,356,000 BTC • Not yet mined – 976,178 BTC • Governments – 650,000 BTC

@APompliano Saying this now and not 30 days ago is like wearing a rain coat after a hurricane 🥲

The stock market closed at a new all-time high today. Everyone promising you the Iran war was going to destroy your portfolio was wrong.

Ohio local news says, “There will only be 21 million Bitcoin mined. There are 56 million millionaires around the world. If every one of them wanted to own a full Bitcoin, they couldn’t.”

💳 OKX CARD USERS BUY GROCERIES WITH CRYPTO OKX Card data shows most crypto spending in Europe is going toward everyday purchases, not luxury goods. In its first month across the EEA, groceries and supermarkets made up 26% of transactions, while restaurants and fast food accounted for another 18%.

@coinbureau The real world definition of: if you can’t beat them, join them. 😅

BREAKING: $7.9T Morgan Stanley is rolling out crypto trading, undercutting rivals with lower fees. The Wall Street bank will charge E*Trade users a 0.50% transaction fee, undercutting Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab. The rollout is in testing now, and all 8.6 million E*Trade users are expected to get access later this year.

@farzamehsani So the government regulators don’t understand at all what they are regulating 😔

Another post to contribute to the public discourse re the Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations 2026 in South Africa. “Capital is moving offshore.” “ZAR is escaping.” I hear claims like this about crypto exchanges in South Africa. To clarify: No ZAR goes offshore and the net externalisation of capital is zero. Here’s the flow: Customer A deposits ZAR into VALR’s SA bank account. Customer B deposits USDT into VALR's wallet. Customer A buys USDT. Customer B sells USDT. Customer A now has USDT. Customer B now has ZAR. The ZAR remains in SA at all times. No rand crosses a border. No international rand transaction occurs. No net value leaves the country through this trade. What has changed is ownership between two customers on a regulated South African platform. Even if Customer A withdraws her USDT from VALR and "externalises" value, then by definition Customer B (who deposited the USDT on VALR) must have "internalised" the USDT in the first place. Also, Customer B can only withdraw ZAR to a bank account in SA. Again, the net effect on the SA economy in terms of "capital flight" is zero. No net capital has "escaped" or "moved offshore". No change to SA's balance of payments. ZAR can't really “escape” South Africa in the way physical gold or bearer instruments could in the past. In the modern economy, almost all ZAR (~97%) exists as digital bank liabilities within the SA banking system. There should be no concern that rand bank balances are “leaving” South Africa nor that the economy's capital is being externalised via digital assets. No ZAR goes offshore and the net externalisation of capital is zero.

@coinbureau Kraken making Bitcoin worldwide money! 😎

🚨KRAKEN, MONEYGRAM PARTNER ON CRYPTO-TO-CASH WITHDRAWALS Kraken users will be able to withdraw cash from crypto accounts at 500,000 physical locations worldwide. The firms plan to expand into local bank deposits and cross-border remittances.

@LukeMikic21 This is why we Bitcoin! 👀

While we were all distracted with the middle eastern conflict, look at what's been quietly accelerated over the last 45 days: 🇷🇺Russia🇷🇺 ALL citizens BANNED from taking $100k of cash, or 35 grams of gold out of the country. 🇲🇽Mexico🇲🇽 Their WEF affiliated president announces cash payments at petrol stations will be banned. Why only at "petrol stations?"🤔 🇹🇷Turkey🇹🇷 Forced through digital IDs. Why are digital IDs apart of their emergency energy crisis response?🤔 🇬🇧UK🇬🇧 Has once again tried to bring back the digital ID - This time, it’s new and improved, and designed to "tackle populism.” 🗺️Countries from all around the world, on every continent, are all moving in lockstep to introduce 2 things, side by side. ⛓️The digital ID creates the prison. 🔐The CBDC is the key that locks your wealth inside that cage forever.