Accepting Bitcoin is one thing. Paying your staff in it is another. Bitcoin Ekasi moved all its assistants' salaries into sats this week — Bitcoin at the start of the local money cycle, not just the checkout. In Santo Domingo, a burger shop paid a bread maker in sats, who used those same sats to send a remittance abroad: one payment doing a sale, a wage and a cross-border transfer with no bank in between. Reliability stayed part of the story. The Liquid sidechain reported ~$320M drained, then saw most of it returned on-chain a day later, minus a haircut — a reminder that partial recovery isn't the same as being made whole. And BTCPay shipped another security-driven release, trading some convenience for a smaller attack surface.

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Bitcoin Ekasi moved its assistants' salaries into sats, a Santo Domingo shop paid a worker who sent those same sats home as a remittance, and a Kib...

Accepting Bitcoin just got easier: the new BTCPay plugin turns a Blink Lightning address into a full merchant setup — no node, no API key, your keys. Lightning Labs ships Wavelength, pooled sats buy a cow, and a town in El Salvador pays for laundry, juice, and coffee in bitcoin — this week's brief.

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$49.3M pushed through open-source BTCPay rails in a year. A Salvadoran school canteen improvising NFC cards so kids can tap to pay in sats. New merchants in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Bitcoin payments, proving themselves at every scale — this week's brief.

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Bitcoin payments proved themselves at both ends this week: one operator pushed $49.3 million across 70,566 transactions on open-source BTCPay rails...

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Huge milestone: 40 Million Kenyans now have a Bitcoin Lightning Address Simply using their current phone number. Smart analysis from @Destiny

40 Million Kenyans Now Have a Bitcoin Lightning Address. Here Is What That Actually Means.

M-Pesa has 40 million active users in Kenya. Every single one of them now has a Bitcoin Lightning Address.

Weekly Brief 2026/19 Pick n Pay is accepting Bitcoin at thousands of South African stores. BTCPay reported $40M processed by one operator in six months. BTC Map logged 2,500 net new merchants in April. The numbers are compounding.

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Pick n Pay Adds Bitcoin at Thousands of Stores. The Numbers Are Compounding

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Weekly Brief 2026/13 Zambia's Livingstone has 115+ Bitcoin merchants in a city of 177,000 — verified at restaurants, markets, and the airport. Guatemala completed its first Lightning transactions. In rural Kenya, a savings group bought a goat and a mattress with sats.

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Real Bitcoin circular economies don’t grow like mushrooms. 🍄🚫 In our latest post, Hermann Buhr Vivier shares the "No Mushroom" philosophy: why sustainable adoption is a long game built on 15+ years of trust, not just vanity metrics. 🌍⚡️ Read more:

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Weekly Brief 2026/04 🌍 Bitcoin isn't just "coming"—it's here. From R1.4M in monthly retail spend in South Africa to Steak 'n Shake's new Bitcoin employee bonuses, the circular economy is scaling fast. 📈 Check out the Weekly Brief:

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Weekly Brief 2025/47 Our first weekly brief is out now, tracking how Bitcoin payments adoption is accelerating around the world. See the latest data and stories shaping the use of Bitcoin as everyday money. Read it here:

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Square enables Bitcoin at 4M U.S. merchants; South Africa’s QR rails open 680k+ locations

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New post! ​Inflation is a hidden tax on everyone. Our new guide breaks down the "Cantillon Effect" and why Bitcoin is the peaceful revolution against the money printer. ​Read more: blink.sv/blog/inflation

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