Our monthly educational e-bulletin "TwentyOne" is out. This month we focus on why Bitcoin, not crypto.
✅ https://mailchi.mp/bitcoincoalition/21-bitcoin-not-crypto-jan21-2025
Important moment for a reality update. This $TRUMP coin is just the latest in a long series of pump and dump crypto scams. Study Bitcoin and learn why it’s fundamentally different from crypto. Bitcoin, not crypto.
Thank you! Yes, Joel Lightbound (Liberal), Ben Lobb (CPC), and Pierre Poilievre (CPC) for sure. However, we have a lot of work to do educating MPs, MLAs/MPPs et al. We began this work slowly, in 2024, and are hoping to scale up in 2025. Something that may help, will be the glaring light from political endorsement of Bitcoin in the U.S. that we expect to see this year. Canada will have a major game of catch up to play though.
Get Bitcoin (BTC), spend BTC. However, if you choose to save your BTC, this global, fixed supply, digital currency is also a better store of value and purchasing power over time than riskier, more speculative investments like stocks, bonds, and real estate.
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve
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Earlier this week, at Bitcoin block height 879,262 we sent our federal recommendations to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Leader of the Official Opposition, all other federal party leaders and party executives, all MPs, Senators, and Provincial Premiers.
In addition to calling for key federal policy measures, we hope that our federal recommendations provoke urgent dialogue at provincial and municipal levels too.
Since delivering our federal recommendations earlier this week…
✅ BTC has grown from $1.8 to $2.05 Trillion global market cap.
✅ 3 more U.S. states have introduced legislation to establish Strategic Bitcoin Reserves (SBR).
✅ NY Times & Washington Post have both published articles about the imminent U.S. Govt Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
✅ The Govt of El Salvador has added an additional 3.0 BTC to its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve via the National Bitcoin Office. The 🇸🇻 SBR now stands at 6030.18 BTC.
✅ The Govt of Thailand has introduced a pilot project for use of BTC as currency.
✅ 4 new Bitcoin circular economies around the world have been added to the nostr:npub1l00kxrz9h56hss4krvs52z77z3rlj8prf0pdf0msxxpy5lj8rylq9xnypq network. More than 60 local BTC circular economies are now operating globally.
✅ Canadian publicly-traded company Good Food Corp became the latest 🇨🇦 company to announce that it is adding BTC to its treasury.
And much more.
Global adoption and use of Bitcoin (BTC) is accelerating quickly. It is imperative that all political parties in Canada, and governments at federal, provincial, and municipal levels all make Bitcoin-focused public policy a strategic priority. 🇨🇦
A harmonized de minimis exemption of $10,000 CAD/USD on all BTC transactions for goods and services throughout 🇨🇦🇺🇸, as recommended by nostr:npub1j46na8czzv909c6zr7charcr63zuxd2d7jw3jjfy9j33d72c0aksgxdffy and nostr:npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc nostr:npub1978t0ppn7wc4akp8knsjhqyed3d776xptn7qvkuaf3nrj4qu32vqg28wxa would support a strong, competitive Can-Am region.
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While we believe the Govt of Canada should demonstrate leadership, municipalities across Canada should not wait.
All forward-thinking municipalities across Canada should follow the lead taken by Mayor Ken Sim and Vancouver City Council to make Vancouver a more “Bitcoin friendly” city. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities should support this movement.
https://bitcoincoalition.ca/2025-01-15-news-release
We are at a crossroads. Most Canadians, and our federal, provincial and municipal governments in 🇨🇦 are currently on the "debt/fiat standard". Our urgent recommendations issued to the Government of Canada this week are a call for us to move toward the "Bitcoin standard" or be left behind. While our governments may be slow or may never act, we (ie, individuals) can! Study Bitcoin and move toward the Bitcoin standard. https://bitcoincoalition.ca/2025-01-15-news-release
NEWS RELEASE: Bitcoin Coalition of Canada delivers new federal recommendations to power economic growth, social development, and environmental action
2025.01.15 -- The Bitcoin Coalition of Canada (BCC) has tabled critical new recommendations for the Government of Canada, outlined in “Leveraging the Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits of Bitcoin, Now and For Future Generations.”
The recommendations have been sent to all Members of Parliament, federal political party executives, Senators, Premiers, and MLAs/MPPs.
The BCC is urging the federal government to take several key measures to harness the wide-ranging potential of Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin mining for Canada and Canadians:
1. Implement a de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin transactions under $10,000 CAD and commit to a more detailed study of how best to facilitate Bitcoin’s use as currency in Canada.
2. Eliminate capital gains tax on Bitcoin (BTC) held for more than one year.
3. Provide incentive support and remove regulatory red-tape to scale up Bitcoin mining in Canada.
4. Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) for Canada, with the goal of securing 100,000 BTC over four years beginning in 2025.
FULL NEWS RELEASE: https://bitcoincoalition.ca/2025-01-15-news-release
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS PAPER: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/53bd0c95-dfdc-4fed-9c78-a7c2f6c673ab/downloads/5b096fa8-4ff0-4db0-abc2-8b6b86e29321/BCC%20Federal%20Policy%20Recomendations%20-%20January%2020.pdf?ver=1736879907486
One of the best ways for Canada and Canadians to pre-empt and counteract the types of “economic force” that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is threatening against Canada is for Canadian households and all levels of government — federal, provincial/territorial, municipal — to establish Strategic Bitcoin Reserves (SBR) now!
In our November 2024 e-bulletin we did a deeper dive on SBR: https://mailchi.mp/bitcoincoalition/21-bitcoin-strategic-reserves-update
Welcome to Nostr nostr:npub1xfryjdm8c47v354zmhapf5t3av0y9qzxjg8sgmeqkswpm5ca7faqtn8mvx! Hey world, please follow them and help boost the Canadian Bitcoin community on Nostr. Thanks!
Happy Bitcoin Genesis Block Day! On this day, 16 years ago, the Bitcoin protocol and network was officially released into the world. #cdnpoli #cdnecon #BTC
Good morning and happy January 2, 2025. As of 8:30am EST the BTC/CAD exchange rate is:
1.00000000 BTC / $139,450 CAD
$1.00 CAD = 00000717 BTC
$1.00 CAD = 717 sats
#cdnpoli #cdnecon
Happy New Year from the Bitcoin Coalition of Canada! Here’s looking forward to an amazing year ahead, on many fronts. #Bitcoin #BTC #cdnpoli #cdnecon
Congratulations to the people of El Salvador! The Government of El Salvador now holds 6,001.77 Bitcoin (BTC) on behalf of its population. Coincidentally, that’s 6,001.77 more BTC than the Government of Canada. 🇸🇻🇨🇦
Bitcoin mining should be incentivized and supported by federal and provincial governments in Canada 🇨🇦.
✅ financially supports scale up of renewable energy production.
✅ helps stabilize electrical grids
✅ mitigates climate change through methane reduction, flared gas capture and other innovations.
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Now Russia is transacting in Bitcoin. The U.S. Government and States are implementing Strategic #Bitcoin Reserves (SBR). Other countries are doing so as well. This is no longer in the realm of the hypothetical. This is now an urgent priority.
We need a Canadian Bitcoin strategy in order to not fall further behind.
✅ Tax reforms, including a de minimis exemption for using Bitcoin as money, and a change to capital gains rules
✅ Incentives to encourage more Bitcoin mining in Canada
✅ Strategic Bitcoin Reserves for federal government, provinces, and municipalities
