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#Bitcoin, dolar digital y finanzas sin terceros

[Artemis @artemis]

BREAKING: The NEW Artemis Stablecoin Dashboard is live.

Stablecoins are becoming one of the most important markets in crypto.

So we built an updated way to track them.

Monitor supply, flows, and growth across tokens, chains, exchanges, and regions.

And now, with the new Compare tab, you can benchmark $USDT vs $USDC, Ethereum vs Tron, and more side by side.

The full stablecoin market, in one place ⤵️

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

Official diagnosis: Clinically Bitcoin Depressed. 59/100. I remember what Bitcoin was supposed to be. The distance can't be measured in sats. https://t.co/RF2G8Ygd5Q

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

good stuff 🧡

[Bitcoin.diy | Learn | Review | News @Bitcoindiy]

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No rehypothecation. No KYC. $5 minimum. Unilateral exit if they disappear.

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#Bitcoin #BitcoinLoans #Taproot #NonCustodial #SelfCustody #Bitcoindiy #SurgeCredit

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

What a flex 🔥💵

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: Someone just sent 107 BTC across 5 transactions to a well know "burn address" 🤯

$8.3 million GONE.

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

My thoughts are “why can you see this?”

[Gap | Suby @gaspardlezin]

I spent the last 6 months mapping every major card payment player across 6 regions.

The takeaway: "global payments" is a marketing term. The reality is regional.
Global card payment volume crossed $45T in 2024. Four players touch every transaction, in every region, in 2 seconds. Yet most founders default to "we'll just plug Stripe and we're done."

Here's the uncomfortable truth: card infrastructure has always been regional. The strongest players in each step change completely depending on where your customer pays from.

Three years ago, "global card acceptance" meant a handful of US-based PSPs. Today, every region has its own acquirers, schemes, issuers and processors built by people who understand local behavior, regulation, and interchange on the ground.

The Global Card Payments Map:

🇺🇸 North America:
API-first acquiring Acquirers: Stripe, PayPal, Worldpay, Fiserv, Square
Schemes: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover
Issuers: Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Citi, Bank of America
Processors: FIS, Galileo Financial Technologies, Marqeta, i2c Inc.

🇪🇺 Europe: fragmented schemes,
PSD2-native Acquirers: Adyen, Nuvei, Worldline, Nexi Group, Checkout com, Rapyd, Mollie
Schemes: Visa, Mastercard + local (CB, girocard, BANCOMAT)
Issuers: BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, HSBC, Santander, Revolut, N26, Barclays
Processors: Marqeta, Nexi, Tietoevry, Worldline

🇧🇷 LATAM: Elo & Hipercard ≠ optional
Acquirers: Rede, Cielo, Stone, PagSeguro International, dLocal, EBANX
Schemes: Visa, Mastercard, Elo, Hipercard
Issuers: Nubank, Itaú, Santander, Banamex, Bradesco
Processors: FIS, Galileo, Marqeta

🇨🇳🇯🇵 Asia (China & Japan): UnionPay & JCB rewrite the rules
Acquirers: Stripe, Adyen, PayPay, LINE Pay
Schemes: Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, JCB
Issuers: ICBC, Bank of China, MUFG, Mizuho, DBS
Processors: FIS, Marqeta

🇮🇳 India & SE Asia: RuPay is table stakes
Acquirers: Razorpay, Paytm, PhonePe, Pine Labs, GrabPay
Schemes: Visa, Mastercard, RuPay
Issuers: HDFC, SBI, ICICI, Kotak, Axis
Processors: FIS, Pine Labs, Marqeta

🌍 MEA: Troy, mobile money colliding with cards
Acquirers: Paystack, Checkout com, Fawry, Flutterwave, M-Pesa
Schemes: Visa, Mastercard, Troy
Issuers: HSBC, Emirates NBD, FNB, Standard Bank, QNB
Processors: FIS, Network International, Marqeta

Why this matters:

Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ in the US. Brazilian acquirers go under 2%. Adyen processes €1.4T annualized. More UnionPay cards exist than Visa + Mastercard combined (9.6B vs ~5.9B). RuPay went from 3% to 18% of India's credit card market in 3 years.

If you're picking a payment stack in 2026, the right question isn't "who is the Stripe of X?" It's: "Which acquirers, schemes, and processors actually own the rails in each region I serve?"

PS: That's exactly why we built @Subyhq, one card acceptance gateway that speaks all four players, in every region.

[Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io @EliBenSasson]

Future generations are going to look at our payment systems the same way we look at dial-up internet.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.

Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.

Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.

The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.

The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.

This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

@Bankless @mert @tushar_jain @Zcash Dont think @TrustlessState did his homework for this interview. Zcash was founded in 2016 not 2013 as mentioned, and PoW/hashrate and security of the chain potentially changing with PoS wasn’t discussed. Many stones left unturned.

[freddyzur @freddyzur]

¡Milagro en Aragua! Apareció una mega-granja con 4,000 máquinas de criptomonedas que consume 10 MW y... ¡NO TIENE DUEÑO! 🪄✨ Nació solita por generación espontánea en San Vicente.

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

Venezuela will be great again, and make crypto great again. That’s why Erebor and Coinbase execs are traveling there.

[Sultán @elsultanbitcoin]

No hay mensaje más claro para la apertura del sistema bancario venezolano a la industria cripto internacional, que uno de los Co Founders de Coinbase hablando con el presidente del Banco de Venezuela 🇻🇪

[Jonah Burian @jonah_b]

We were early backers of @tether, @circle & @Paxos

Now every fund is bullposting stablecoin data

$300B+ stables, $33T of volume etc

But there’s been surprisingly little business analysis

Who makes money? Who doesn't? Why?

I pulled together our thinking below👇

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

@udiWertheimer @cprkrn @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei @blknoiz06 it is money though

[Giacomo Loathsome Bitcoin Destroyer Zucco @giacomozucco]

Cashu, Liquid, Spark, Arkade, Taproot-channels, are all part of the very same Lightning Network: the common swapping/invoicing language across different Bitcoin security models. But they all come with their different and not-interoperable asset standards.
At @tuscanysummit, @FedericoTenga explaining why RGB is a great candidate as a cross-layer "meta asset standard"!

[Verda Ventures @VerdaVentures]

We mapped 3,535 stablecoin infrastructure companies globally.

One pattern became impossible to ignore:

The stablecoin economy is splitting in two.

Not by chain or token. By geography.

And the divide is much sharper than most people realize.
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[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

@twinfinance_ @belo_app Hey si les interesa el dominio https://t.co/YjyO4BlN40 (o 21 otros dominios para LatAm como https://t.co/5EW8K25Cp2) están a la orden 🧡

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

@Truthcoin @SDLerner @MrHodl Paul the apostle

[Javier ₿astardo @criptobastardo]

El chavismo no quiere que mines bitcoin ni con tus s9 old school

[DolarCripto 🍊💸 @DolarCripto]

@_BitcoinCapital @Vladcostea BIP-300 and then ossify