This Week in Bitcoin – Issue #12
Three News
Fedimint — Fedi raised $4M to accelerate the development of the Fedimint protocol and its companion app Fedi (coming in Q1 2023) — tools that can improve and scale bitcoin custody.
Tesla — Posted a gain of $64M on the sale of 75% of its bitcoin holdings that netted it $936M in the 2nd quarter, as well as an impairment of $170M on its remaining holdings
Chipotle — Launched "Buy the Dip" online game giving customers the chance to score in on over $200K worth of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, and Dogecoin) and 1-cent guacamole and queso blanco
Two Tweets
Julien Bittel, CFA@BittelJulien
Yikes! Now here’s a scary chart.
Over 80% of global countries are experiencing inflation above 6%… https://t.co/IOUiBkF5tx
10:39 PM · Jan 18, 2023
Casa@CasaHODL
BREAKING: We're proud to announce #bitcoin is officially mainstream. We don't have to capitalize it anymore.
Going forward, Casa will lowercase "bitcoin."
Feel free to join us. Read more here👇
https://t.co/UMlVU14OyN
10:39 PM · Jan 18, 2023
One Video
Lightning vs. Mastercard: payment race
Danny Scott ⚡@CoinCornerDanny
#Bitcoin Lightning vs Mastercard
Contactless payment race ⚡
https://t.co/wRI4bJPrQX
10:39 PM · Jan 18, 2023