💵The First Real-Life Purchase with Bitcoin: A Historic Bite💵

🍕May 22, 2010, marks a pivotal moment in cryptocurrency history. On this day, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first real-world purchase using Bitcoin, trading 10,000 BTC for two large pizzas from Papa John's. At that time, those 10,000 bitcoins were worth about $41.

🏛️Fast forward to today, and the value of those 10,000 BTC has skyrocketed into the millions📈, making those pizzas worth over $300 million at current Bitcoin prices. This transaction is now celebrated annually as "Bitcoin Pizza Day," symbolizing the astonishing growth and acceptance of Bitcoin as a currency.

💰From $41 to millions, Bitcoin's journey from buying pizzas to becoming a global financial phenomenon is nothing short of extraordinary.

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Mastercard To Allow Cryptocurrency Payments In Web 3.0 Using USDC

Payments giant Mastercard has partnered with Immersive to allow users to make crypto payments in the digital, physical, and metaverse worlds.

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Ripple Further Expands Into UAE, Payments Provider Will Use XRP.

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Bitcoin market cap 'flips' payments giant Visa for the 3rd time.

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Alchemy Pay licensed in Indonesia.


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Spanish carrier Vueling will accept cryptocurrency payments from the second half of 2023 following an agreement with Criptan, a platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies, the companies announced.

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India expands national payment network to Singapore.

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Mastercard to allow crypto payments in Web3 via USDC settlements.

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The partnership between Web3 payment protocol Immersive and mastercard will allow users to make crypto payments in digital, physical and metaverse.

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Payments processor Stripe raises $6.5B at $50B valuation, 47% lower than 2021's $95B. Goldman Sachs & JP Morgan advised.

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Silvergate Halts Crypto Payments After Suffering $1 Billion Loss.

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Xapo Bank Becomes First Bank To Offer Bitcoin Lightning Payments.


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Swiss luxury auto dealer New Motors now accepts #Bitcoin  payments

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The Federal Reserve has announced the launch of its new real-time payments system, set to come into effect in July. The service will provide immediate access to funds and offer a “modern instant payment solution.”

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BREAKING:
🇺🇸Federal Reserve announces July launch for 'FedNow'~ an instant payment system!

Source:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20230315a.htm
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🇺🇸 Federal Reserve to launch 'FedNow' instant payments system in July.

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UAE free zone to explore Bitcoin payments for services, lawyer says.


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Solana Takes the Lead in Stablecoin Transactions

Solana is emerging as a major player in the stablecoin market, according to recent data from VISA. In March 2024, Solana captured a whopping 42.3% market share in stablecoin transactions, a significant leap from just 1.9% a year earlier. This surge is attributed to Solana's fast transaction speeds and low fees, making it ideal for high-frequency trading, a major driver of stablecoin volume.

This is a significant development in the blockchain landscape, and it will be interesting to see how Ethereum and other networks respond. Could this be a turning point for Solana?

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EchoPay, an A2A payments provider, has teamed up with TokenIo to introduce A2A #payments for 🇬🇧 UK wholesale merchants. #crypto2023 #BTC