🇮🇷 IRAN: Bank Melli, the country’s largest state-owned bank, has reportedly suspended all cash withdrawals after a bank run amid ongoing anti-regime protests. ATMs and card payment systems are reportedly down, signaling growing financial instability and a deepening crisis as protestors storm the streets.

🇺🇬 UGANDA FINDS A WAY AROUND INTERNET SHUTDOWNS During the last two elections, Uganda’s dictator shut off the internet and rigged the vote. Now Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app, is spreading rapidly, letting people organize and communicate even when the internet is cut.

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NOW: Internet traffic across 🇮🇷 Iran has dropped sharply to near 0% The outage comes as Tehran sees the largest protests yet, where demonstrators have set fire to regime buildings, raising signs that a broader uprising may be underway.

JUST IN: US officials are reportedly considering cash payments to Greenlanders to encourage a break from Denmark and a potential move to join the United States. Proposed payments discussed by White House aides range from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, per Reuters.

2026 is the year Bitcoin stops being just adjacent to the stablecoin ecosystem and starts becoming the settlement infrastructure that powers it. - Nikki McPherson of @Amboss

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Bitcoin Will Become a Major Stablecoin Settlement Layer by 2026

For years, stablecoins have grown on top of faster, cheaper blockchains—but never on the one network with the deepest liquidity, the strongest se...

FLORIDA MOVES TO CREATE A STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE Florida lawmakers introduced legislation that would allow up to 10% of select public funds to be allocated to Bitcoin and Bitcoin ETFs while also permitting certain state taxes and fees to be paid in digital assets.

M2 money supply is growing at its fastest pace since the 2022 bear-market bottom. Don’t overthink it. This locomotive will not be derailed.