Cha-ching - All Time High and Luxury Bitcoin Commerce
Emirates Airlines and Monaco yachts for bitcoin in are just in time for the recent all time high.
Bitcoin Commerce luxury could be back in fashion, promising signs for payment adoption in Africa, 2025 stablecoin report and more!
Yachts for bitcoin and Emirates Air could find Bitcoin whales ready to spend
Speed Wallet publishes a 2025 report on trends in stablecoins
South African bitcoin payments startup secures funding to expand
Could “Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet” mean bitcoin on the Lightning node?
Looking for a laugh? Check out our Bitcoin meme of the week at the back of the Roundup! 😁
Find it all here, and thanks from the Velas Team!
Bitcoin Payments for Yacht Zoo and Emirates Air
Bitcoin whales enjoying the all-time high can now celebrate by buying a yacht in Monaco at the Yacht Zoo.
And - in a similar vein - Emirates Air is reportedly exploring crypto payments with crypto dot com.
This could be part of a larger story arc if we are following the 2021 bull market pattern. If you’re in the market for luxury goods - the opportunities to pay with bitcoin may be on the rise.
https://www.yacht-zoo.com/yacht-brokerage-monaco/
https://www.ccn.com/news/business/emirates-airline-exploring-crypto-payments/
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Inside Speed Wallet’s 2025 Stablecoin Report
Speed Wallet just published a 2025 stablecoin report and stablecoins look set to continue their takeover of the global payments industry.
One of the standouts of the report was a breakdown of the most popular use-cases including cross border e-commerce, B2B payments and no-fuss global payroll.
The report is worth a read, including a breakdown of the key trends in 2025 and an interesting set of predictions for where stablecoins are going from here.
Check it out here:
https://www.tryspeed.com/blog/global-stablecoin-trends-2025/
African Bitcoin Payment Startup Secures Funding to Expand
MoneyBadger, the South African startup that powers the successful Pick n Pay bitcoin payment system, just secured an additional $400,000 USD investment to expand their systems through Africa.
We love this quote from the mybroadband article: “while the West debates crypto regulation, MoneyBadger is making Bitcoin spendable at scale.”
They’ve reportedly developed an intuitive QR code payment system that has been increasingly popular in South Africa.
Lots more info in the article here:
LQWD Looking to Maximize it’s BTC Treasury with Lightning
Let’s go to Canada, on the other side of the globe, where LQWD, a bitcoin treasury company, looks serious about deploying its stored Bitcoin on the Lightning Network.
We think this could be a logical next step to the “Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet” trend - a way to hold bitcoin as an investment and deploy it on the Lightning Network to earn routing fees - in bitcoin.
Growing a business’ balance when calculated in bitcoin (as opposed to dollars, for example) is a notoriously tricky task - we think this idea could be a great strategy to accomplish it.
Let’s hope all these new bitcoin businesses will get routing⚡
And our Bitcoin Commerce meme of the week.............🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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