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• Bitcoin trades at $82,000
• Ethereum trades at $1,800
• Rumble buys 188 BTC worth $17.1M
• US inflation falls to 2.8%, lower than expectations
• Metaplanet buys 162 BTC for $13.2M, issuing a 2 billion JPY zero-interest bond, worth $13.5M
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📬 Mid-Week News Roundup
• Bitcoin trades at $90,000
• Ethereum trades at $2,200
• Metaplanet buys 497 BTC for $43.9M, now has 2,888 BTC
• CZ acknowledges Vitalik Buterin’s pivotal role in crypto’s evolution
• Michael Saylor and Brian Armstrong to join the White House  x.com/CPOfficialtx/s…

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Over the past six months, I've gone from being an observer of Web3 to entering the payment industry. Now, I've chosen to stop and cease working on Web3 payments.

This isn't a retreat after a failure, but rather a judgment and adjustment made after truly getting involved. In these past six months, I've traveled to Yiwu, Shuibei, Putian, and even Mexico, seeing how payments are actually implemented in the most prominent places mentioned in reports. I've also been involved, building a Web3 payment MVP, taking over accounts, developing Web3 payment tools, and trying to run my imagined path from the first step to the last.

But the further I went…

An entrepreneur's account: From beginning to end, why I stopped developing Web3 payments.

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