NEW: 🇷🇺 Russia’s ninth-largest bank Sovcombank becomes the country's first major lender to launch Bitcoin-backed loans.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2019479431023153608?s=20

Welcome to the pain zone.
This is where plebs are made.

NEW: 💵T ether Announces $100 Million Strategic Equity Investment in Anchorage Digital 🙌

Source: https://x.com/tether/status/2019411631197823401?s=20

NEW: 🟠 Gloria Zhao (glozow) steps down as a maintainer of bitcoin core.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2019525103331996070?s=20

"The problem for these guys trying to control the price is Bitcoin is finite… eventually that all comes to an end… these guys don’t understand absolute scarcity."

Samson Mow on BTCSessions: https://x.com/BTCsessions/status/2019410835760627956?s=20

BULLISH: 🟠 Michael Saylor says "Donald J. Trump is the Bitcoin President" that is "making America the Bitcoin superpower" 🇺🇸

Source: https://x.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/2019542779626426371

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks just said live on Bloomberg that the crypto market structure bill may pass this year.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2019759243780382940?s=20

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet CEO says, “We will steadily continue to accumulate #Bitcoin”

Nothing stops this train 🙌

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2019718137294586363?s=20

NEW: 🟠 Secure Digital Markets executes a $1M Bitcoin transaction via the Lightning Network in a pilot project with exchange Kraken ⚡

The two companies describe it as the largest Lightning payment ever publicly recorded.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2019780116843512194?s=20

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📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom

⚡️ B HODL, backed by Adam Back, added 1 BTC via a £49,275 loan, raising total holdings to 161.388 Bitcoin.

📰 https://btctimes.com/b-hodl-adds-one-bitcoin-to-treasury-following-loan-drawdown/

📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom/status/2019819259971408134

This is why we HODL

🌎 Tether invested in t-0 network to support USD₮-based, on-chain cross-border settlement for licensed financial institutions.

📰 https://btctimes.com/tether-invests-in-t-0-network-to-support-usdt-settlement-infrastructure/

📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom/status/2019825145439809735

🟠 H100 Group added 4.39 BTC to its treasury, bringing total holdings to 1,051 Bitcoin, with public support from Adam Back.

📰 https://btctimes.com/h100-group-expands-bitcoin-treasury-with-additional-purchase/

📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom/status/2019831164345692630

NEW: 🟠 Binance purchases another $233M worth of Bitcoin for its SAFU Fund.

That brings total buys this week to $433M, or 43% of its planned $1B allocation.

Binance says the full SAFU Fund conversion into Bitcoin is expected to be completed within 30 days.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2019757583494521181?s=20

ERIC BALCHUNAS: 🟠 Bitcoin ETFs reported $434m in outflows yesterday, $IBIT was $175m of it. YTD net outflows -$2.2b and the total since collapse is around $8b. Still, more than 90% of aum hanging tough, forced to weather what feels like a Cat 5 hurricane.

Source: https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/2019747757766947310?s=20

If the fact that +90% of IBIT AUM are not moving in this market conditions doesn't seem bullish to you I don't know what to tell you

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Strategy CEO Phong Le says in seven years Bitcoin will crash from $1,000,000 to $750,000, and people will say BTC is dead then too.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2019901616837562646?s=20