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Tuesday, July 7, 2026
A Cape Town spaza-shop counter: a shopkeeper holds up a QR code as a customer pays by phone
On the Ground · Cape Town

South Africa Put Bitcoin at 650,000 Checkouts

No mandate, no ministry — payment processors wired bitcoin into the QR code South Africans already scan at the till.

By The Bitcoin Beacon · 5 min read
Markets · Virginia

Strategy Sells Bitcoin to Pay Its Dividends

The company that swore it would never sell moved 3,588 coins in a week — to service the paper it sold to buy them.

Network & Mining · Global

An August Deadline Splits Bitcoin's Developers

BIP-110 would filter data inscriptions from blocks. Its forced-activation clock runs out in weeks — with almost no miners aboard.

The Take · Opinion

Europe Just Hired Bitcoin as a Notary

A new standard anchors the EU's mandated AI-content watermarks into bitcoin blocks: a hash, a timestamp, a record nobody can rewind. The dullest use case may be the stickiest.