🚨🇫🇷 IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO BUY BITCOIN AT CARREFOUR
Swiss company Cryptonow is launching its crypto gift cards in 2,284 points of sale in France, including Carrefour stores. They make it possible to buy between €25 and €500 worth of Bitcoin directly in-store.
Each card contains an activation code that gives access to a crypto wallet, allowing you to then hold your assets or manage them via the Cryptonow Invest platform.
🚨 Blue Origin raises $10 billion and is now valued at $130 billion.
SpaceX is valued at $2 trillion after its IPO.
We can think what we want about SpaceX’s valuation, but... the gap says a lot about the difference in execution between the two companies.
Blue Origin was founded in 2000, one year before SpaceX.
It had 25 years and Bezos’s billions to develop its rockets.
SpaceX succeeded in landing and reusing its boosters in 2015. Blue Origin reached orbit for the first time in 2023 with New Glenn (8 years behind Falcon 9).
Today, SpaceX is: - 10,600 satellites in orbit - Starlink - contracts with NASA - crewed missions - Starship - an ecosystem that extends all the way to X / xAI
Meanwhile, Blue Origin remains limited: - New Shepard for suborbital tourism - New Glenn (explosion in May... still in the testing phase).
Besides, the timing of this fundraising isn’t a coincidence: when an iconic company in a sector goes public at a record valuation, it creates a reference effect (all comparable companies see their valuation pulled upward).
Bezos personally puts in $2 billion (1% of his fortune) to signal his conviction. 👀
The real question: in a space industry dominated by Musk, is there room for a second private player of this size?
🚩The poorest U.S. state, Mississippi, has a higher GDP per capita than the United Kingdom, France, and Italy; the second-poorest U.S. state even outstrips Germany.
Europe is being suffocated by regulation, over-taxation, and redistribution orchestrated by the left. One cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Split orders recorded a record trading volume of $3.4 billion for the month of June.
This represents growth of +279% compared to the previous month and +1,400% compared to the previous year.
The growth was mainly driven by SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO and the increasing demand for 24/7 trading.
In addition, the Solana network now accounts for more than 90% of the volume traded in these assets.
A substantial share of this volume growth was propelled by Jupiter, the world’s largest onchain platform, which saw monthly volume growth of +56%, with about 60% of the volume of split orders taking place during off-peak hours and on weekends.