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Joe Nakamoto released a new video this week, documenting the life of Steve, who sold everything, even his house to create a UK-based Bitcoin mining project.

A brilliantly produced video for a cool and unique story. Give it some love, it’s only 10 minutes long.

P.S. The great thing is that they met at our conference in Edinburgh!

🇬🇧 Toot Toot

Established in 1930, Tooting Market in South London is an iconic indoor market and the UK's first food market.

In a single day, a group of Bitcoiners helped EIGHT of the market’s merchants start accepting Bitcoin. Big shoutout to Bridge2Bitcoin and Hashley Giles for making this happen.

The market also hosted its first meetup this week to celebrate, organised by Hashley.

📲 T-Mobile Mining Bitcoin

Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest telecommunications provider and owner of T-Mobile unveils Bitcoin and Lightning Network node operations in a surprise announcement.

But here is the kicker, at the recent Prague conference, they also shared plans to start mining bitcoin!!

🧠 Genesis Masterclass

Our first presenter doing a masterclass for Genesis is Danny Scott, Co-Founder and CEO of CoinCorner.

CoinCorner are one of the longest-running Bitcoin exchanges in the UK, founded in 2014. Danny brings a wealth of knowledge to the table and we’re really excited to have him as part of Genesis!

Join/Share the waitlist.

🇫🇮 Heating Finland

Marathon Digital have launched an innovative pilot project to recycle heat generated from Bitcoin mining to warm a community in Finland. The 2-megawatt data center, energised at the end of May, is located in the Satakunta region, home to 11,000 residents.

“This pilot project in Finland is a critical step forward in our strategy to expand globally and innovate sustainably,” said Fred Thiel, Marathon’s chairman and CEO.

🔥 What else have you missed?

1. Microstrategy smash buy once again with another purchase of 11,931 BTC for ~$786.0M.

2. US federal interest payments now exceed the defence budget.

3. The Fed Quietly ‘Admits’ Gold Is Replacing The Dollar.

4. Halving progress 4%.

5. Oslo Freedom Forum: The best Bitcoin conference that isn’t about Bitcoin.

6. Standard Chartered is opening a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading desk, becoming one of the first in the world.

🍾 Friday Fun!

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