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#Bitcoin

[Darth Bitcoin @markredtally]

Bitcoin is hope

If you fancy finding out what it is and why it's so treasured then this is a good place to start

https://t.co/ArjLGvGc6S

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Strategy has acquired 1,550 BTC for $101 million to increase our $BTC Reserve to ₿845,256. We have also increased our USD Reserve by $100 million to $1.0 billion. $MSTR $STRC https://t.co/1Zf1AVsP1H

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

The Clarity Act passed committee. The floor is next. We did not come this far to quit at the 5 yard line.

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

₿REAKING: The first federal home loan in American using bitcoin was officially approved today. Joe and Amy living in Michigan, bought a new house using their bitcoin wallet as collateral for a Fannie Mae mortgage.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Strategy has acquired 24,869 BTC for ~$2.01 billion at ~$80,985 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 12.6% YTD 2026. As of 5/17/2026, we hodl 843,738 $BTC acquired for ~$63.87 billion at ~$75,700 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC https://t.co/y1zvePEuym

[BitcoinTreasuries.NET @BTCtreasuries]

JUST IN: Strategy’s Michael Saylor just said, "The idea of digital credit is to give a bank account to a billion people that pays them 10% without volatility."

"We've invested $60 billion in a crypto reactor to create $10-20 billion a year high yield bank account backed by #Bitcoin that will grow 30-50% a year."

"What I would recommend to my friends and family is $STRC." 🔥🚀

[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

Scott Bessent just told the world that financial infrastructure is a weapon and then 4-star admiral just told Congress what beats it.

Admiral Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, called Bitcoin "a peer-to-peer, zero trust transfer of value" that supports "all instruments of national power." He said this in a Senate hearing. On the record. Right as the Treasury was openly bragging about engineering currency collapse in Iran as a military strategy.

Operation Economic Fury works because the legacy system runs on trust. Trust that your reserves are safe. Trust that your payment rails stay open. Trust that the correspondent bank holding your nation's wealth doesn't get a strongly worded letter from Washington tomorrow morning. The dollar is a weapon precisely because everyone agreed to depend on it.

Zero trust money breaks that weapon entirely.

Here's where the game theory gets uncomfortable.

Iran already figured this out. Cut off from SWIFT, they built alternatives. They mined Bitcoin at scale. They collected tolls on 20% of the world's oil supply in Bitcoin, settled on-chain before any Western authority could touch it. Your sanctioned adversary is already operating on the network your admiral just called a tool of national power.

The CCP's monetary think tank reached the same conclusion. After Trump announced the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, they published research on Bitcoin as a strategic asset. The same government that built a surveillance state on financial control is studying the one monetary network that surveillance can't reach.

When your enemies are adopting Bitcoin and your own generals are calling it a power projection tool, you don't get to opt out. You can't sanction your way around it. You can't bomb the network into submission. The only move left is to accumulate faster than your adversary.

Bessent is showing you what the old system can do to you. Paparo is telling you what replaces it. Iran is proving it works in live conditions. And the CCP is taking notes.

Bitcoin doesn't care who's winning the geopolitical argument. It just keeps producing blocks.

The admiral knows it. Iran knows it. The CCP knows it. The senator in that hearing room admitted he couldn't even follow the conversation.

That gap is where everything is decided.

[Decentra Suze @DecentraSuze]

Thank you @Ed_Miliband, your red tape and grid bureaucracy have actually done something right. You have made it easier, faster and make more business sense to mine Bitcoin rather than connect to the grid.

A Yorkshire gas field that could supply over 10% of Britain’s annual demand is being positioned for early Bitcoin mining rather than immediate supply to the national grid.

Reabold Resources plans a small on site gas fired power station using private gas to mine Bitcoin, generate early revenue and help fund further development of the field.

Connecting to the grid is slow, costly and tied up in years of approvals, infrastructure build out and negotiations. Using the gas on site allows immediate monetisation from existing wells and creates early cash flow without waiting for the wider system to catch up.

When the fastest and most viable route for a domestic energy resource is private on site use rather than supplying the grid, it becomes clear that Bitcoin isn’t the problem.

This neatly exposes how misaligned UK energy policy, infrastructure and incentives have become.

It’s amazing what businesses can do to stay profitable, even when the government tries to make it almost impossible.

Full article: https://t.co/VqwwjRRpdp

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

BREAKING: Bitcoin CEO issues statement

"Unlike Bitcoin, the electricity that powers Telsas is still derived mostly from fossil fuels.

When Tesla can show measurable progress on this important issue, we will allow Telsa to start accepting Bitcoin payments again."

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

You weren’t meant to live an uncomfortable life. $STRC

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

It’s time to put the laser eyes back on. $BTC

[Kwasi Kwarteng @kwasi_stackbtc]

Here is the uncomfortable truth:

The British political class is years behind when it comes to Bitcoin and digital assets. We are asleep at the wheel.

Too many people in Westminster are happy to dismiss it with throwaway lines about “Ponzi schemes” without having spent even a few hours/days understanding what it actually is.

Bitcoin didn’t appear in a vacuum. It is the latest chapter in a very long story, the evolution of money itself.

From gold, to paper backed by gold, to purely fiat currencies controlled by central banks.

Anyone who has seriously studied that history can see why a decentralised monetary network with a fixed supply was inevitable.

That doesn’t mean every crypto project has merit. Far from it.

But confusing Bitcoin with the worst excesses of the crypto industry simply reveals a lack of understanding and full transparency, this was once my view also before I took the time to learn.

Britain should be leading the conversation about the future of money and financial infrastructure.

Instead, far too many of our decision-makers are still trying to understand the last one.

Bitcoin is the future.

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

🇱🇺 LUXEMBOURG ANNOUNCED THEY INVESTED 1% OF THEIR SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND INTO #BITCOIN

WORLD'S 4th RICHEST COUNTRY BUYING BTC.

MASSIVE 🔥

[Quinten | 048.eth @QuintenFrancois]

Bitcoin is at one of the most oversold levels in history 🚨

[Joe Consorti @JoeConsorti]

One more week until the 20,000,000th bitcoin is mined.

The remaining 1,000,000 will take 114 years.

[Bitcoin for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

Very cool overview of who owns Bitcoin.

[K A L E O @CryptoKaleo]

In the 9 years I’ve been on crypto twitter I have never seen so many negative posts on my timeline.

Anyone claiming that Bitcoin is dead or dying has a fundamental misunderstanding of Bitcoin.

You can honestly extrapolate that thought to crypto as a whole.

It can’t be killed.

And what can’t be killed is destined to innovate and grow.

And as much as they try to institutionalize it, it can’t be controlled by any single entity.

Bitcoin isn’t just digital gold.

It’s decentralized, trustless financial freedom.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Vitalik doesn’t buy Ethereum, only sells it.

Ripple doesn’t buy XRP, only sells it.

The US doesn’t buy USD, only prints it.

There can only be one Bitcoin— wake up

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

Nine months ago today, Steak n Shake launched its burger-to-Bitcoin transformation when we started accepting bitcoin payments. Our same-store sales have risen dramatically ever since.

Bitcoin payments for Steak n Shake burgers go into our Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which then funds Bitcoin bonus pay for our employees.

We have combined a decentralized, cash-producing operating business with the transformative power of Bitcoin.

Thank you Bitcoiners!

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360 has been merged into the official Bitcoin BIPs repository, aiming to strengthen Bitcoin against quantum 👀

[Mandrik @Mandrik]

$58k gang right now