2025 “was one of the most consequential years Bitcoin has ever had. Regulatory clarity improved. The technical stack continued to harden. User adoption continues to expand with more on-ramps and layer 2 solutions coming online. While most of the market fixated on charts, the foundation kept getting stronger.
“Institutional capital is no longer circling, it is here. Nation states are no longer whispering, they are experimenting in public. Bitcoin has continued to mature, and it increasingly looks less like a speculative asset and more like global sound money. Heading into 2026, the question is not if Bitcoin works, it’s whether the average person is ready for the world that is forming around it.”
We are kicking off this year with some comments & predictions from our CEO, David Parkinson, and other industry leaders being featured by Bitcoin News. We look at the economy at large, the threats facing individuals and businesses more broadly in the context of AI and other factors, and the adoption of Bitcoin as a new global collateral & payments layer.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/bitcoin-2026-sovereignty-settlement-repricing-of-trust
Bitcoin is economic gunpowder for the future of money.
Dive into how we are using the Lightning Network to make Bitcoin a real medium of exchange in everyday commerce, in this new interview featuring our CEO, David Parkinson ⚡️👇
💥 We're going to be at Bitcoin MENA from 8-9 December.
If you're going to be there, let us know so we can say GM 🤝
🔔 Investor Opportunity 🔔
Musqet is growing.
From £0 processing volume in Q2 2024 to approaching £100m today and a pathway to 2,500 customers across the UK and Europe - £300m volume by Q1 '26 then onto £1 billion by EOY '26 - our progress is on track.
Revenues are increasing. We have partnerships with Gibraltar Bank, Verifone, Vodafone and Google chromeOS which stand us in great stead to lead the adoption and use of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange globally as an integrated part of full merchant payment services.
Our next generation payments & ePOS platform delivers significant value to customers as well as reduced costs in the majority of cases. With Bitcoin at the heart of our ecosystem we will not just accelerate merchant payment adoption, but also bring customer rewards, payroll and financing solutions to Bitcoin for businesses.
We are seeking investor support to give us liftoff. Having achieved everything that we have since July 2023 with just £2.3m, the final £3.1m remaining of our total £5m raise will provide the runway we need to deliver the £1 billion volume in 2026, and grow to £16m EBIT by 2029.
If you are an angel, a fund or any other investment vehicle, please reach out via DM or directly at david@musqet.tech.
We have capacity for a number of additional £50k-£100k investments as well as larger funding allocations to complete the round.
Bitcoin adoption and freedom money is the objective we set out to bring to the world and we need your support to achieve this.
~ David
CEO, Musqet
Thrilled to announce our partnership with Vodafone!
Their new case study spotlights how Vodafone IoT powers Musqet's borderless payment terminals — providing the seamless connectivity to enable Bitcoin, debit & credit card acceptance across 180+ countries.
Check it out: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/case-studies/powering-future-borderless-payment
Paying for drinks at The Dog & Gun with our nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9ukqzxthwden5te0dehhxarjvd5x2cmt9ekk2tmjv4kxz7g5r9kjz wallet- actually NOT a bad advert for bitcoin since nostr:nprofile1qqsd7gqv4s60d743gfv8x4z09krv6zmn6x02sswcfsrt0ymshw3pfqcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtck79e6m customer service were available and responding to dms past 10pm on a Saturday night and fixed the pub's lightning channel!
#RealLifeBitcoin 💪⚡ https://nostr.download/212508c6af4fdd5216a23e6573645c0dc8cdf76e9d429f349a4e80f0cb2c4f66.mp4 
Thanks for flagging it. Bug squashed. Onwards! 🫡
More details of what we need and how to apply are here: https://musqet.notion.site/2a44b42f541d80f3aec6e6b087cf0b2f
We are hiring!
Interested in helping us build the future of money? 👉
*Wanted* - Senior Full Stack Engineer to boost our eCommerce capabilities. Details below.
A generous bounty! This is a mockup but it’s live. We need actuals! Also on two screens on the High St - this is Great Eastern Street
Shoreditch, London, 15 October 2025.
Bitcoin is money.
In 2024, we exhibited at Hospitality Tech - a large tech expo targeting hospitality operators, hosted at the massive 100,000m² Excel Centre in London.
This year:
- c. 1 in 10 people we spoke to owned Bitcoin
- Almost everyone we spoke to was open to accepting Bitcoin
- Several had already started the process of seeking out Bitcoin-enabled payment providers
- One had already built + exited a Bitcoin-based business, and was working on a new one
- We have firmly left the Innovator stage of adoption and are rapidly moving through Early Adopter and on into Early Majority phase
- Bitcoin is no longer laughed at, but taken seriously as an enabler for businesses - especially the spending power it can unleash
- Merchants are looking to increase footfall, increase average spend, and increase customer stickiness. Our hospitality model, built around Bitcoin, ePoS, Hospitality Ops & Loyalty, allows us to directly attack and solve for each of these goals.
- We came away with 60 leads to follow up, spanning three continents.
- Merchants are still not too late to get to Bitcoin. But they are not early, either...
TLDR: Bullish
🔔 And we are LIVE at the Hospitality Tech Expo in the Excel London!
If you’re here, come and see how we are enabling the next generation of payments + ePOS.
#Bitcoin
We are not in Kenya 🇰🇪 yet, but when we get there, we will fix this! 🧡
Resistant to decay.
Spendable, and acceptable, by all.
Bitcoin is better money.
🚨 *BREAKING NEWS*
For the 1st time ever, we have demonstrated Bitcoin-enabled payments via a Chrome-based EPOS as part of Google's stand at NRF Paris 🔥💣💥
Our Chief Executive Officer, nostr:nprofile1qqsx338c76w35zgmux9uzt69ud8g8s286cttn0s090hrpgxsap6hgjqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcnsfww0 and Adrian Cannon, our Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer,, appeared on nostr:nprofile1qqsr7wsusu63u3qzm4evaadu43eydg4trvaw22l6u200gujjkl55ctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj95crztnev94kj6r0dehx2tnrdakj7e6fpff the other day. They explained what makes nostr:nprofile1qqsd7gqv4s60d743gfv8x4z09krv6zmn6x02sswcfsrt0ymshw3pfqcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtck79e6m different, how we are leading the way in the future of payments and working to bring about the Bitcoin Standard!
Hopefully nostr:nprofile1qqsr7wsusu63u3qzm4evaadu43eydg4trvaw22l6u200gujjkl55ctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj95crztnev94kj6r0dehx2tnrdakj7e6fpff can share some clips!
We handle both Bitcoin (self custody or direct to fiat if the merchant isn't orange pilled yet) and fiat payments in one machine for merchants so it's not really a pop-up, once off thing.