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We hope more people fall in love with holding their own keys 🔑
Blink Wallet
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making bitcoin everyday money
What stays the same in Blink: your Lightning address, your QR codes, instant payments, your Dollar Balance.
What changes: you get a 12-word recovery phrase. You hold the keys. We can't touch your funds. Unilateral exit to on-chain bitcoin.
More sovereignty, more responsibility. Update and try it.
We Are Launching Non-Custodial Accounts for Blink Wallet — The Facts and The Full Story
Your keys, your Bitcoin: bringing non-custodial control home to Blink Wallet
Zapstore
Blink - the everyday bitcoin wallet — Zapstore
Blink 3.0 — now with non-custodial accounts. Hold your own keys with the same simple experience Blink is known for. Blink is the Bitcoin wallet t...
Huge milestone: 40 Million Kenyans now have a Bitcoin Lightning Address
Simply using their current phone number.
Smart analysis from @npub1d39s...h33r
40 Million Kenyans Now Have a Bitcoin Lightning Address. Here Is What That Actually Means.
M-Pesa has 40 million active users in Kenya. Every single one of them now has a Bitcoin Lightning Address.
Weekly Brief 2026/19
Pick n Pay is accepting Bitcoin at thousands of South African stores. BTCPay reported $40M processed by one operator in six months. BTC Map logged 2,500 net new merchants in April. The numbers are compounding.
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Weekly Brief 2026/19
Pick n Pay is accepting Bitcoin at thousands of South African stores while BTCPay Server reported $40 million in payments processed by a single ope...
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Pick n Pay Adds Bitcoin at Thousands of Stores. The Numbers Are Compounding
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Weekly Brief 2026/19 — Pick n Pay, $40M on BTCPay, and the Compounding Numbers
Pick n Pay accepts Bitcoin at thousands of South African stores. BTCPay reports $40M processed by one operator in six months. BTC Map logs 2,500 ne...
Weekly Brief 2026/13
Zambia's Livingstone has 115+ Bitcoin merchants in a city of 177,000 — verified at restaurants, markets, and the airport. Guatemala completed its first Lightning transactions. In rural Kenya, a savings group bought a goat and a mattress with sats.
Weekly Brief 2026/13
Zambia's Livingstone logs 115+ Bitcoin merchants in a city of 177,000 as Guatemala completes its first Lightning transactions and Kenya's Bitcoin C...
Drop beats not bombs 🎼
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Real Bitcoin circular economies don’t grow like mushrooms. 🍄🚫
In our latest post, Hermann Buhr Vivier shares the "No Mushroom" philosophy: why sustainable adoption is a long game built on 15+ years of trust, not just vanity metrics. 🌍⚡️
Read more:
Building Sustainable Bitcoin Circular Economies
Hermann Buhr Vivier on the long Game of Bitcoin circular economies - Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025
Weekly Brief 2026/04
🌍 Bitcoin isn't just "coming"—it's here.
From R1.4M in monthly retail spend in South Africa to Steak 'n Shake's new Bitcoin employee bonuses, the circular economy is scaling fast. 📈
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Featured in this issue:
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@El Flaco (author)
Weekly Brief 2026/04
Scaling the Circular Economy: 700,000 New Ways to Spend Bitcoin
Weekly Brief 2025/47
Our first weekly brief is out now, tracking how Bitcoin payments adoption is accelerating around the world.
See the latest data and stories shaping the use of Bitcoin as everyday money.
Read it here:
Weekly Brief 2025/47
Square enables Bitcoin at 4M U.S. merchants; South Africa’s QR rails open 680k+ locations
When you can pay for everything with bitcoin - what changes next?
New post!
Inflation is a hidden tax on everyone.
Our new guide breaks down the "Cantillon Effect" and why Bitcoin is the peaceful revolution against the money printer.
Read more: blink.sv/blog/inflation
New post!
Bitcoin adoption isn't just a headline - it's happening one wallet at a time.
Our new post shares 4 real and 1 fictional stories from people in Kenya, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Italy using Bitcoin in their daily lives.
Read more:
Bitcoin Adoption Stories: Five Real Tales From All Over The World
Bitcoin adoption is speeding up. Join us as we travel around the planet to explore Bitcoin personal stories of the heartfelt kind.
"I use Blink for onboarding newbies, but it's a turn-off when SMS doesn't arrive instantly... 😪"
Say no more, fam 🧑🔧
With the latest version of Blink, it's possible to add phone number later, so onboarding is Lightning⚡️ fast!
Lightning? ⚡️
Bitcoiners asked for it.
We built it.
Everybody uses it.
The consequence?
Fast, low-cost transactions. 🎉
But no sleeping.
Let's keep on building 🚀 
Bitcoin is on the rise in Kenya 🇰🇪
African continent is preparing to leapfrog once again - follow the builders:
@npub1xxcy...tfly / Zambia 🇿🇲
@BitcoinEkasi / South Africa 🇿🇦
@npub1djkg...9fhz / Kenya 🇰🇪
@npub1tk59...q7qp / Nigeria 🇳🇬
#SPEDN
How paying with bitcoin feels like ⚡️😎
We’re happy to share that Blink has completed a transaction aimed at supporting its growth and commitment to Bitcoin communities worldwide.
With Lukas Duczko as the new CEO and a capable board in place, Blink will continue to focus on driving Bitcoin adoption from the bottom up. We look forward to the future and the communities we serve.
https://www.blink.sv/blog/blink-completes-transaction-to-accelerate-growth-and-boost-support-of-bitcoin-communities-around-the-world