💸 Bitcoin Isn’t a Bet Anymore

Happy Friday, In A Nutshell this week:

• 💸 Bitcoin Isn’t a Bet Anymore

• 🎮 GameStop Going All-In?

• ⛏️ Gridless Hits the BBC

• 🇷🇸 The Serbian Prince into Bitcoin

• …and much more

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 🚀⏰ Today’s news should be a ~3.43-minute read (431 words).

🧠 Quote Of The Week

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

– Aristotle

💸 Bitcoin Isn’t a Bet Anymore

Bitwise Asset Management’s latest memo, “The Great Derisking of Bitcoin,” makes a bold claim: now is the best time in history to buy Bitcoin on a risk-adjusted basis.

Matt Hougan highlights how regulated pathways, like spot ETFs, and growing legitimacy have transformed BTC into a credible asset.

More clients are allocating 3% to Bitcoin, with Hougan predicting a rise to 5% as adoption grows.

🎮 GameStop Going All-In?

GameStop’s board unanimously approved adopting Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.

GameStop hold roughly $4.6 billion in cash and cash equivalents but instead of using that, they’re raising another $1.3 billion through convertible notes to "buy, you guessed it… Bitcoin.

It looks like GameStop is now going to follow the Strategy playbook.

⛏️ Gridless Hits the BBC

We nearly fell off our chairs this week: a positive Bitcoin mining story on the BBC.

In Zambia, a hydro plant was wasting over half the energy it could generate. Gridless stepped in to monetise the surplus through Bitcoin mining.

Their co-founder joined us on the podcast two weeks ago to share the full story, and now they’re making headlines in the mainstream.

👉BBC Article

👉BBC Segment (3 mins)

👉Podcast Episode

🇷🇸 The Serbian Prince into Bitcoin

His Royal Highness Hereditary Prince Philip of Serbia and Yugoslavia, also known as Prince Filip Karađorđević, shares his views on Bitcoin and discusses the synergies between monarchies and Bitcoin.

We also get into his work with Jan3 and accelerating hyperbitcoinization at the nation-state level.

Find the episode: Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube

🔥 What else have you missed?

1. Philippines, Indonesia Tipped As Next Bitcoin Nation-States By Samson Mow.

2. BlackRock launches its first Bitcoin ETP in Europe.

3. New Paper: “the opportunities offered by bitcoin mining in reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy transition are greater than generally assumed”

4. Bitcoin is Manifest Destiny for the United States of America.

5. Quantum has the potential to be a bigger deal than most expected in the coming 5 years - Preston Pysh.

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