💳 Dollar Payments, Powered By Bitcoin

Happy Friday, In A Nutshell this week:

• 💳 Dollar Payments, Powered By Bitcoin

• 🚫 UK: Locked Out of Learning

• 🇨🇿 Czech Bank Dips Into Bitcoin

• 🇬🇧 Farage Doubles Down On Sound Money

• 🏛️ State-Backed Bitcoin Conference

• 🔊 Final Speakers Announced for Bitcoin | A Competitive Advantage

• …and much more

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🧠 Quote Of The Week

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

💳 Dollar Payments, Powered By Bitcoin

Jack Dorsey’s two companies are rolling out upgrades to move Bitcoin into everyday spending. Square has enabled Bitcoin payments across its US point-of-sale network, while Cash App is adding Bitcoin tools for its 58 million users.

You can now pay at Square tills with your Cash App dollar balance; the app converts it to Bitcoin and routes the payment over Lightning with near-zero fees, so the merchant can receive and keep BTC.

A new merchant map helps users find Square locations that accept Bitcoin, encouraging more businesses to join and sparking curiosity.

Bitcoin payments just became practical at scale, even for people who don’t hold BTC.

🚫 UK: Locked Out of Learning

UK users report they are blocked from viewing a Ledger blog post explaining multi-signature wallets.

Multi-sig lets people split control of funds across several keys, reducing single-point-of-failure risk. Blocking an educational page, not a trading feature, raises questions about how these rules are being applied.

Limiting access to security education undermines consumer protection and the UK’s ambitions of embracing technology.

🇨🇿 Czech Bank Dips Into Bitcoin

The Czech National Bank has bought around $1 million worth of Bitcoin and other digital assets to run a test portfolio.

The bank says the goal is hands-on experience after earlier talks about Bitcoin reserves drew pushback in Europe. The assets sit outside official reserves and are meant for experimentation rather than investment returns.

Whilst it’s a small purchase, it’s a significant signal that central banks are actively learning how to utilise the benefits of Bitcoin.

It’s also ironic given that, in January, Christine Lagarde said: “I’m confident Bitcoin will not enter the reserves of any of the central banks of the EU.”

🇬🇧 Farage Doubles Down On Sound Money

Nigel Farage argues the UK is falling behind rivals and says Bitcoin is “scarce, secure and impossible to inflate away.”

He calls the BoE’s new £20,000 retail stablecoin cap a “poison pill” and promises a Cryptoassets and Digital Finance Bill to speed up payments and bring Bitcoin into UK policy.

Farage’s plan is to scrap stablecoin holding caps, cut crypto capital gains tax to 10%, and build a Bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England.

If enacted, these plans would tilt the UK toward pro-crypto regulation and embed Bitcoin and stablecoins in the national strategy.

🏛️ State-Backed Bitcoin Conference

El Salvador held “Bitcoin Histórico” in San Salvador this week, billed as the world’s first state-sponsored Bitcoin conference and run by the National Bitcoin Office.

Talks and broadcasts centred on the National Palace, with sessions at the National Library and National Theatre. Speakers included Jeff Booth, Max Keiser, Lawrence Lepard, Jimmy Song, Stacy Herbert and Russell Brand.

The event underlines El Salvador’s ongoing Bitcoin strategy and its push to promote Bitcoin at a state level.

🔊 Final Speakers Announced for Bitcoin | A Competitive Advantage

We’ve dropped the six final heavy-hitting speakers to the lineup for Bitcoin | A Competitive Advantage on Friday, 21st November, Derby:

David Boylan — CFO & Director at B HODL

Sean Kiernan — Founder & CEO of Greengage

Scott Ellam — Founder/CEO of XCE & Managing Director at Spencer Riley

James Priday — Founder & CEO of P1

Jonathan McCallum — Founder of Catalyst AI Consulting

Alan Edwards — Founder of Evoke Solutions

From business leaders to independent thinkers, if you're taking action or ready to start, this conference is for you.

🎟️ Final day tickets still available, grab yours whilst you can!

🔥 What else have you missed?

1. Quantitative Easing, thats what they call it. “We call it theft”

2. £5 Billion Bitcoin money laundering fraud jailed for 11 years

3. Joe Bryan Presents “What's The Problem?” to 400 UK Financial Advisors

4. US Government considering $2,000 “Refund” to families earning under $100K

5. Metaplanet is owned by almost 0.2% of all Japanese citizens

6. Cashu is bringing tap to pay to Bitcoin (Ecash), without the need of the Internet

7. Luxembourg sovereign wealth fund has invested 1% of its assets into Bitcoin

8. India now has its first Bitcoin-only investment fund

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