Kenya’s Bitcoin ATM Frenzy: Chaos, Orange Machines & Unlicensed Warnings 🚨

According to Capital News, these “Bankless Bitcoin” contraptions-bright orange, vaguely menacing-now loiter in malls like Two Rivers (Gigiri) and Westlands, sharing real estate with conventional ATMs. This juxtaposition is either a masterstroke of financial inclusivity or a harbinger of retail hell, depending on whether one believes Bitcoin will replace cash or merely replace one’s savings. 🎉💸

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The real fireworks? A spicy debate about staking on the XRP Ledger. Because nothing says “edge-of-your-seat excitement” like arguing over validator voting mechanisms at 3 a.m. 💤

Ethereum’s Grand March: A Bitcoinesque Odyssey? 🚀💸

Fundstrat, that paragon of crypto wisdom, stands as a lighthouse in the fog of uncertainty, its CIO Tom Lee a bard of bullish ballads. In days of yore (2017, to be precise), he exhorted investors to allocate mere 1-2% of their portfolios to Bitcoin, a sum so modest it would make a peasant blush. Lo and behold! That “modest” BTC, once a humble sapling, now towers as a 100x titan. A tale of patience, perhaps, or a lesson in the folly of underestimating a digital asset’s potential.

Michael Saylor: Bitcoin’s Indestructible? 🤔

The stock, that fragile creature of shareholder hope, has plummeted like a drunkard’s last coin purse. Critics, armed with spreadsheets and hubris, brandish their knives, howling that Saylor’s Bitcoin obsession is a fool’s errand. But the man himself, with the air of a prophet in a world of skeptics, scoffs at their panic. “We are indestructible,” he proclaims, as if the universe itself must bow to his will. Or perhaps he’s just sleep-deprived. 🤷