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BNY Mellon is entering the Bitcoin arena with the creation of a “Digital Assets Unit.” The New York-based bank will issue, hold and transfer bitcoin on behalf of its asset-management clients. The bank is a custodian of over $41 trillion in assets and has $2 trillion under management.

Twitter CEO Donates $1M to Coin Center

Now in 2021:

Mastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This Year

Mastercard is planning to give merchants the option to receive payments in cryptocurrency later this year. The payments giant has not yet disclosed which digital currencies it intends to support, or where. Mastercard first filed a patent for handling bitcoin payments in 2013 but abandoned that effort in 2015.

https://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-accepts-crypto-payments

See how you can't trust the banksters!?!?!?!

Although won't Bitcoin make his dream of Universal Basic Income impossible since he can't print more of it and hand it out to the citizens?

Hmmm

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ark-cathie-wood-bitcoin-400000-000053537.html

BTCC, it's on the TSX (Toronto exchange) so if you can buy stocks there, you can buy it.

“With an etf you don’t have to worry about premium fluctuations and share price should move in tandem with actual btc price moves. I’m a long holder of qbtc.u as well but this is worth looking into” - some Twitter dude

Nigerians defy government order, turn to P2P exchanges for Bitcoin

And they have one of the highest bitcoin-user penetration for any country.

Many African people have nothing to lose and they are aware how awful politicians can be - so I expect them to continue leading the way to more bitcoin adoption.

While experts were arguing about Apple and would it buy Bitcoin or not, Twitter announced its desire to participate. The Chief Financial Officer of Twitter Ned Segal said on Wednesday that Twitter is looking for options to pay employees in cryptocurrency. It was also said that Twitter wants to put a part of its funds into Bitcoin.

I think by "issue" they mean a client can withdraw the bitcoin from the banks custody service to their own wallet. Without selling for dollars and being sent dollars.

Bank of New York Mellon, the nation's oldest bank, is making the leap into the market for cryptocurrencies. The custody bank said Thursday it will hold, transfer and issue bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on behalf of its asset-management clients. In time, BNY Mellon will allow those digital assets to pass through the same plumbing used by managers' other, more traditional holdings.

LOL

If only it could be like this every day! 😉

https://digitalik.net/btc/cycle_repeat

This graph is showing how it would be if from today price change would repeat it's pattern from previous cycle. It goes 1458 days ahead (full cycle).

https://youtu.be/Pb5oIIPO62g

In this lecture-style presentation, John Cleese claims that creativity is not a special talent. People are either in an ‘open’ or ‘closed’ state of mind. The closed mode enables people to apply themselves to tasks with vigour and concentration; the open mode is more relaxed and conducive to creative thinking. Cleese talks about how leaders can induce an open mode in their team members and establish confidence in them to accept that there is a succession of learning steps on the road to total quality.

Interesting that they are calling Biden "President Elect" when he hasn't officially been elected yet then.

Maybe they should call him "Presumptive President Elect" instead?

When is the actual electoral college vote going to take place?