✈️ EasyJet Enters The ₿ Game

Happy Friday, In A Nutshell this week:

• ✈️ EasyJet Enters the ₿ Game

• 🌌 Bitcoin Lightning Just Went to Space

• 🇳🇵 Nepalis Turn to Bitchat During Social Media Crackdown

• 🤔 Does Bitcoin Belong on Your Balance Sheet?

• 🏛 Bitcoin Treasury Companies: Innovation or Illusion?

• 🔊 First Speakers Announced for Bitcoin | A Competitive Advantage

• …and much more

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🧠 Quote Of The Week

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."

— Anatole France

✈️ EasyJet Enters the ₿ Game

A brand everyone knows is entering the space.

EasyJet founder Stelios Haji‑Ioannou has partnered with Uphold to launch EasyBitcoin, a new platform aimed at making Bitcoin simple, accessible, and trusted.

With low fees, transparent pricing, and the power of a household name, this could be a major gateway for first-time buyers.

The app isn’t available in the UK yet, but it’s expected to launch later this year.

🌌 Bitcoin Lightning Just Went to Space

On Sept 9, @Printer_Gobrrr sent and received a Lightning invoice through satellite connection, one of the first fully functional Bitcoin Lightning transactions using space infrastructure.

The move makes payments fully borderless, with no reliance on terrestrial internet. The tech shows what Bitcoin is capable of when it transcends traditional infrastructure.

It’s early. It’s experimental. But when something like this works, it’s a glimpse of Bitcoin’s future.

🇳🇵 Nepalis Turn to Bitchat During Social Media Crackdown

Over 48,000 Nepalis downloaded Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth mesh messaging app Bitchat amid nationwide protests over corruption and a short-lived social media ban. 
The app’s appeal? It works without internet infrastructure, no phone numbers, no central servers. Perfect when mainstream platforms get shut down.

Authorities had blocked Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and YouTube. The ban triggered mass dissent, especially among younger people. Violence broke out, buildings were burned, and the government building was stormed.

Bitchat is still new, launched in beta just a couple of months ago. But this kind of rapid adoption during a political crisis shows how resilient, decentralised tools are becoming part of the resistance.

🤔 Does Bitcoin Belong on Your Balance Sheet?

Harvard Business Review has published a piece asking the question more CFOs are quietly considering: Does Bitcoin deserve a place on business balance sheets?

It highlights the growing interest from businesses and state treasurers alike, as well as the changing regulatory and institutional landscape.

Bitcoin is no longer seen as a gamble; it’s becoming part of serious treasury conversations around the world.

🏛 Bitcoin Treasury Companies: Innovation or Illusion?

A new wave of companies is making Bitcoin the centre of their treasury strategy, and some are being accused of acting like Ponzi schemes.

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) still leads the pack, holding two-thirds of all Bitcoin owned by the top 100 treasury companies. But others like Metaplanet and The Smarter Web Company are following suit.

Supporters say it’s smart positioning. Critics say it's speculation dressed as innovation.

🔊 First Speakers Announced for Bitcoin | A Competitive Advantage

We’ve dropped our first three speakers for Bitcoin | A Competitive Advantage on Friday, 21st November, Derby:

• Joe Bryan — Creator of the What’s The Problem?

• Jez Casey (MC) — Bitcoin Collective Advisor

• Sam Roberts — Cartwright Director of Investment Consulting

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

🎟️ Tickets are already live

🔥 What else have you missed?

1. Central Banks adopting Bitcoin? It is further along than you might think.

2. BlackRock is preparing to launch its Bitcoin ETF in the UK in October.

3. Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management announced our gold-backed Bitcoin fund.

4. A new scientific paper explores Bitcoin as an Interplanetary Monetary Standard for Earth–Mars trade.

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