SoftBank-backed Xapo Bank becomes the first bank in the world to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

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Inflation rate:

Argentina 🇦🇷 98.8%
Turkey 🇹🇷 55.18%
Russia 🇷🇺 11.8%
UK 🇬🇧 10.1%
Italy 🇮🇹 9.2%
Germany 🇩🇪 8.7%
Euro Area 🇪🇺 8.5%
Mexico 🇲🇽 7.91%
India 🇮🇳 6.52%
USA 🇺🇸 6.4%
Brazil 🇧🇷 5.77%
Japan 🇯🇵 4.3%
Switzerland 🇨🇭 3.3%
China 🇨🇳 2.1%

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Bitcoin Lightning payment in the Philippines

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Stanford University Bitcoin lesson.

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Missouri state committee passes bill protecting the right to run a node and mine Bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/1633140075675652096

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🙋🏻‍♂️ Tell me you are in El Salvador without actually saying you are in El Salvador.

💁🏼‍♀️ I can buy an ocean-view condo directly with Bitcoin, no need to cash it out first.

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In just the span of 1 month, over 100k Bitcoin Ordinals were inscribed in a parabolic NFT minting frenzy that has brought attention to Bitcoin in a way it hasn’t seen in years. Ordinal theory ascribes a unique number to each satoshi and enables inscribing of metadata to each satoshi, functionally turning them into “NFTs”. The metadata can include pictures, gifs, and videos with a max size of 4MB, the upper limit for a Bitcoin block. Users inscribing metadata to specific satoshi units can fundamentally change Bitcoin's fungibility.

This added functionality has reignited the demand for Bitcoin block space. The average size of a block has increased from about 1.2 MB to 2 MB since the start of the year. Ordinals could be a godsend in ensuring the sustainability of the Bitcoin blockchain. As users pay to inscribe metadata, miners find a new, much-needed stream of revenue.

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Best-performing assets in the last decade.

$BTC 👑

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Celebrating Bitcoin $BTC reaching $111 ATH back in 2013. A historic video.

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When you have 5 minutes of free time, watch Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis defending Bitcoin mining energy use in Congressional hearing. A fascinating dialogue 👀

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US Bank stocks today:

Silicon Valley Bank -60%
Silvergate -42%
JP Morgan -5.4%
Bank of America -6.2%
Wells Fargo -6.1%

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📊 On March 9, the number of Bitcoin Ordinals Inscription minted exceeded 31,000, a new high, among which text minting gradually became the mainstream, with more than 26,000.

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A video explanation for those who do not fully understand in words what a mempool is 😅

For reference:

The mempool is where all the valid transactions wait to be confirmed by the Bitcoin network. A high mempool size indicates more network traffic which will result in longer average confirmation time and higher priority fees.

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🔑 The chance to randomly pick up a private key to someone’s Bitcoin wallet is equal to 0,00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000086%.

It’s about the same as finding 4 specific grains of sand on Earth.

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You think CZ should involve in rescuing banks?

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❗️ IMF warned G-20 that widespread Bitcoin and crypto use could cause banks to "lose deposits".

One of those rare occasions when we wholeheartedly agree with IMF 😁

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💱 Binance to convert the remaining of the 1 billion industry recovery funds from BUSD to Bitcoin, Ether and BNB.

https://www.theblock.co/post/219165/binance-converting-1-billion-in-busd-to-bitcoin-ether-and-bnb?utm_source=telegram2&utm_medium=social

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👍🏼 if agree

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Bitcoin market depth on top CEXs hit its lowest level since May 2022.

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