🇧🇴 Another Country Recognizes Crypto

Bolivia lifts the ban on payments in BTC and other cryptocurrencies and officially recognizes crypto as a legitimate tool for banks and other financial institutions.

The ban was introduced in December 2020.

⛔️ However, the Central Bank of Bolivia reminded citizens that cryptocurrencies are not considered legal tender.

✔️ This does not restrict the use of digital assets but does not oblige service providers and sellers to accept cryptocurrencies. Everything is on a voluntary basis.

🔝 Bybit Card can now be added to Apple Pay

In April of this year, Bybit launched its debit card, Bybit Card, in partnership with Mastercard.

💸💵 The product is a physical card that supports both fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies.

✔️The integration with Apple Pay not only enhances the functionality of Bybit Card but also simplifies the payment process for users, allowing them to make purchases in stores, conduct online transactions, and withdraw cash from ATMs.

💸This chart shows the number of addresses holding more than 1 Bitcoin.

🔼Currently, there are 1,010,777 addresses worldwide holding at least 1 full BTC.

😐 Worldcoin, a project for digital identity, plans to launch World ID on Solana.

Finally identifying all the hamsters and scammers on Solana 😂

👑 Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Current Regulation of Digital Assets

Here are the main points:

➡️According to Buterin, strict regulatory policies have cornered honest developers.

➡️Unfortunately, projects with vague promises of potential returns fail to attract the regulator's interest, while honest and transparent projects immediately face pressure and are classified as "securities."

➡️Vitalik called this "anarcho-tyranny," where acting honestly becomes risky. Against the backdrop of such policies, less and less honest projects infiltrate the industry.

➡️The founder of ETH believes that regulators should pay more attention to projects without a clear long-term strategy than to those that provide clear justification of their economic value.

💵Meanwhile, Arkham analysts have valued Vitalik Buterin's crypto assets at $830,000,000.

He marches steadily towards his goals)

💸Children are using Bitcoin to pay for snacks in El Salvador.

It's that simple — crypto technologies are already being used across different corners of the planet!

🔼 Over the last 12 months, the number of cryptocurrency ATMs installed worldwide has increased by 17.8%, reaching 38,279.

🔝 The record of 39,541 operational crypto ATMs was reported in December 2022.

🧡Remember the Bitcoin hero from 2013 who celebrated Bitcoin's ATH at $111? He’s been found!

The main question for him is, "Did he hodl Bitcoin all this time?"

And here’s the answer:

"Of course! What kind of question is that?! Of course, I hodled, bought more, and hodled again! I hodled every day! And it was the best financial decision of my life!"

💚 Purchasing with Crypto in a Regular Store

You can pay with cryptocurrency even in places that don't accept crypto payments.

✅ Payment services can help you with this. For example, through the Oobit app or similar programs.

💵Here's an example of such a purchase in one of the ZARA stores, where the cashier said that the purchase could not be paid with crypto and needed to be made with a regular credit card.

However, the payment in USDT was successfully processed.

👀 Renowned Bitcoin researcher Justin Drake publicly challenged Michael Saylor to a technical discussion on Bitcoin security!

He suggests Laura Shin from Unchained as the moderator.

🥸 CoinMarketCap's report for the first half of 2024 shows that on average, meme projects based on Solana outperformed similar coins on Ethereum by nearly 800%!