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🇧🇹 Bhutan is allocating up to 10,000 BTC (about $1B) to fund its Gelephu Mindfulness City project, making every citizen a stakeholder, holding the Bitcoin longterm for yields without selling, and ranking 7th globally in sovereign holdings.
Source: https://shorturl.at/cpaGA
âš¡ Bitcoin's Lightning Network has reached a record capacity of 5,637 BTC (about $490M), driven by major exchanges like Binance and OKX adding more deposits for faster, cheaper transactions, while Lightning Labs' new Taproot Assets v0.7 upgrade enables reusable addresses and auditable multi asset transfers to support stablecoins and massive future adoption.
Source: https://shorturl.at/5KzRX
:btc: Tether led an $8M funding round for Lightning Network payments startup Speed, which has processed over $1.5B in volume for 1.2M users by bridging Bitcoin and stablecoins, with the funds aimed at expanding capacity, merchant tools, and global cross border payouts while Tether holds 87,475 BTC in its treasury.
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