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.

Bitcoin News

Bitcoin 2026: Sovereignty, Settlement, and the Repricing of Trust

By 2026, Bitcoin looks less like speculation and more like infrastructure, repricing trust as it becomes a refuge, a settlement layer, and a tool f...

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 ⚡️👇 https://medium.com/authority-magazine/the-future-is-now-david-parkinson-of-musqet-on-how-their-technological-innovations-will-shake-up-0cdca306f0de

💥 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:

Vodafone IoT powers the future of borderless payments

Discover how Vodafone’s IoT connectivity helped a payment services business simplify transactions securely

We are hiring! Interested in helping us build the future of money? 👉 *Wanted* - Senior Full Stack Engineer to boost our eCommerce capabilities. Details below. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4321256178/

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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

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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 🔥💣💥

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Our Chief Executive Officer, @npub1drz0...qddy and Adrian Cannon, our Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer,, appeared on @Roxom TV the other day. They explained what makes @MUSQET different, how we are leading the way in the future of payments and working to bring about the Bitcoin Standard!

@npub1drz0...qddy and Adrian Cannon from @MUSQET were on @Roxom TV today, demonstrating our payment terminal. View quoted note →

Activating CTV + CSFS improves Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Thank you @₿𝔢𝔫 ∞/2.1Psat ⚡️💊🧠📚🇳🇿🇩🇪Ⓐ🏴🌹 for signing this open letter on behalf of @MUSQET

Bitcoin Development

CTV + CSFS: a letter to the technical bitcoin community

An open letter signed by technical members of the bitcoin community calling for the final review and activation of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and OP_CH...

Exciting news! We are preparing to launch a campaign on Republic Europe (formerly Seedrs), offering you the chance to buy equity in our business - to share in our mission, to be part of our future. Interested? Here's what to do: 1. Visit our landing page to join the priority investor list

Log In To Invest In Businesses Or Raise Startup Funding

Become an online seeder in new startup businesses and invest money online with European equity crowdfunding platform Republic Europe.

2. Fill in your details 3. We'll email you when the campaign goes live. We are building the future of business on Bitcoin. Join us! Approved by Republic Europe on 07/04/25

Bitcoin mining is going mainstream.

“The FCA faces a choice. It can continue down a path that drives businesses away, or it can create a regulatory environment that supports growth while protecting consumers." An important and timely article by @Susie Violet Violet Ward for Forbes on how UK regulators are crushing innovation, stifling growth, pushing companies offshore, and making the UK increasingly hostile to Bitcoin businesses. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/18/uk-financial-conduct-authority-drives-out-business-and-hurts-consumers/