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Happy Friday, In A Nutshell this week:

• 🍔 Is Microstrategy The New McDonald’s?

• 📝 RFK’s Letter to The Economist

• 🇧🇹 Bhutan Stackin’

• …and much more

 🚀⏰ Today’s news should be a ~3.29-minute read (526 words).

🧠 Quote Of The Week

“Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

🍔 McMicrostrategy

You probably think McDonald’s is all about Big Macs and fries, right? Well, what if I told you its secret sauce is actually in real estate?

McDonald’s uses physical land, while MicroStrategy banks on the finite nature of Bitcoin to build “moats” for the long term.

Is Microstrategy The New McDonald’s?

📝 RFK’s Letter to The Economist

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is defending the Bitcoin mining industry from its chorus of media critics concerned about the industry’s impact on the environment.

In a letter to The Economist, Kennedy took issue with the publication’s characterisation of the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, writing that an energy system inclusive of miners is “far less carbon-intensive than a system with less renewable generation and ‘peaker’ plants.”

🤔 The Antidote to Social Media Censorship?

What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?

The alternative exists, and it's called Nostr. (5 min watch)

🇧🇹 Bhutan Stackin’

Bhutan holds 13,029 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $758 million, surpassing El Salvador, which holds 5,875 BTC worth $331 million.

The Bitcoin holdings are reportedly linked to the Kingdom of Bhutan’s investment arm, Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI), which has been mining Bitcoin using the country’s abundant hydroelectric power.

🔥 What else have you missed?

1. El Salvador will not spend more than it produces after 2025.

2. MicroStrategy buys 18,300 bitcoin for $1.1 billion, taking holdings to 244,800 BTC

3. The world's first Bitcoin-backed business school.

4. Donald Trump ‘makes’ his first Bitcoin Transaction at an NYC bar.

5. The Bitcoin ETF as a "unique diversified", BlackRock.

6. BlackRock Reveals It’s Quietly Preparing For A $35 Trillion Federal Reserve Dollar Crisis With Bitcoin.

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