⚡ Revolut Strikes

Happy Friday, In A Nutshell this week:

• ⚡ Revolut Strikes

• 🐻 Sorry, I Lowballed It

• 🇬🇧 No UK Bitcoin Reserve (For Now)

• 🧠 Saylor’s Bitcoin Playbook for Corporations

• 🇬🇧 The First UK School to Accept Bitcoin - The Interview

• …and much more

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 🚀⏰ Today’s news should be a ~3.48-minute read (570 words).

🧠 Quote Of The Week

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

– Mark Twain

⚡ Revolut Strikes

Revolut is rolling out Bitcoin Lightning payments for users in the UK and select European countries through a partnership with Lightspark, the infrastructure firm led by former PayPal president David Marcus.

This move enables near-instant, low-fee BTC transactions, making Bitcoin more practical for everyday use. Revolut have 10 million users in the UK alone and 50 million globally.

Revolut joins a growing list of fintechs embracing Lightning and bringing Bitcoin to more users.

🐻 Sorry, I Lowballed It

Standard Chartered’s Head of Digital Assets, Geoffrey Kendrick, has revised his forecast, saying: “I apologise that my $120k Q2 target may be too low.”

With $5.3B in spot ETF inflows over the past 3 weeks and growing institutional demand, he now sees $200K by year-end as possible.

Kendrick points to a shift in how Bitcoin is viewed: from a risk asset to a macro asset.

🇬🇧 No UK Bitcoin Reserve (For Now)

While the U.S. and others move toward strategic Bitcoin reserves, the UK says it has no plans to follow suit.

Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds, stated at the Financial Times Digital Asset Summit that the UK government has no plans to establish a national Bitcoin reserve. She cited Bitcoin's volatility as a primary concern, making it unsuitable as a reserve asset for the UK.

You can sign a petition to establish one here.

🧠 Saylor’s Bitcoin Playbook for Corporations

At Bitcoin for Corporations 2025, Michael Saylor delivered a keynote urging companies to adopt Bitcoin as a strategic asset. He highlighted that 96% of public firms are “zombie companies,” unable to outperform Treasury bills.

He states that Bitcoin offers a path to financial revitalisation: “You want to 10x your company? Buy Bitcoin. You want to 100x? Buy Bitcoin with someone else’s money.”

🇬🇧 The First UK School to Accept Bitcoin - Here’s Why

Claire Chisholm, Principal of Lomond School in Scotland, shares her journey as the first UK principal to announce the acceptance of Bitcoin for school fees.

How a simple conversation with a parent led to months of learning about Bitcoin’s philosophy and economics, and how it aligns with the school’s values of innovation, global thinking, and preparing students for the future.

Claire is working with Saifdean Ammous to build an Austrian economics curriculum and announces a Bitcoin scholarship initiative on the podcast!

The episode is a must-listen and available here: YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify

🔥 What else have you missed?

1. Arizona Becomes Second State to Establish Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

2. Real Bedford - Interview and update with Peter McCormack.

3. The Smarter Web Company Announces Another Bitcoin Purchase.

4. 10 sustainable media magazines and news sites covering the environmental benefits of Bitcoin mining.

5. Why Bitcoin Consistently Rebounds to New All-Time Highs.

6. Barrels of Electrons… The Oil Equivalent of Bitcoin Mining (Gridless).

7. From Sourdough to Sats: My Journey to Accepting Bitcoin.

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