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Domino's has become one of the UK's biggest high street names to accept Bitcoin payments, with the integration made possible by Musqet.

The UK-based Bitcoin payments company has made it live in one store for now, with a broader rollout expected in the coming months.

When a global pizza chain starts taking Lightning payments on the British high street, Bitcoin as everyday money stops being a theory.

B HODL has launched a Lightning Service Provider platform, deploying its treasury Bitcoin to provide instant payment infrastructure for businesses, developers, and AI agents.

Holding Bitcoin is one thing. Using it to build payment infrastructure is another. This is treasury Bitcoin doing real work.

Ryan Sean Adams, co-founder of Bankless and one of Ethereum's loudest advocates, has sold his entire ETH position.

His reasoning: not that Ethereum has failed, but that the "ETH is money" thesis has run its course. Competitors ate into its dominance, fees fragmented across L2s, and stablecoins built on Ethereum ultimately ended up strengthening the dollar more than ETH itself.

Ethereum added everything, and the value leaked out everywhere else, whilst Bitcoin stripped everything back to elevate one asset.

Banca Sella has become the first Italian bank to receive authorisation to offer Bitcoin and crypto services under EU regulation.

The bank plans to launch custody and transfer services for digital assets before the end of 2026. It is not alone: Italy's largest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, now holds over €200 million in Bitcoin, and UniCredit has been exploring Bitcoin-linked products.

European banks are moving fast under MiCA, while US banks still lack the regulatory framework to do the same.

A bipartisan bill in Congress would authorise the US Treasury to buy 1 million Bitcoin over five years, funded by revaluing the government's gold.

It’s 1973 book price of $42 per ounce at today's market price, could unlock over $1.17 trillion in gains with no new debt.

Bitcoin acquired would be held for a minimum of 20 years and treated as a Tier 1 reserve asset, on the same legal footing as gold.

BTC Prague is back. On 11–13 June, 8,500 Bitcoiners will descend on one of Europe's most beautiful cities for the continent's biggest Bitcoin conference.

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Speakers include: Michael Saylor, Jack Mallers, Peter McCormack, and many more.

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Nicholas Dickinson bought his first significant Bitcoin stack at the all-time high. Three months later, he was 40% underwater. He did not panic. He read more books and strengthened his conviction.

Nicholas runs a 50-acre country house hotel in Norfolk and has 40 years in the hospitality industry. In just nine months, he has gone from first-time buyer to thinking in Bitcoin and working out how to bring Bitcoin into his business.

The episode is available here: YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify

1. ChatGPT via MoonPay now lets you buy Bitcoin

2. UK introduced new sanctions targeting Russian financial networks

3. Strive acquired 1,109 Bitcoin, increasing its total holdings to 16,500

4. Cathie Wood predicts $1.25M Bitcoin in the next 5 years

5. Strategy at an 8% discount retired $1.5 billion in convertible debt

6. Kevin Warsh officially sworn in as new Federal Reserve Chair

7. IT Worker arrested in Miami over $1.9 Million Bitcoin theft from former boss

8. Mastercard has secured a New York BitLicense

9. Casa launches four security features to combat rising social engineering attacks

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