GM. This is Milk Road, the newsletter that realizes you might need a break from your family (so we compiled a list of cool things you can read over and dissociate to).
Here’s what we’ve got for you today:
- ✍️ 5 things to spend your crypto on
- 🎙️ The Milk Road Show: Bitcoin Isn’t Weak: The Market Structure Has Changed w/ Matt Crosby
- 🍪 Is inflation on the way down?
Bridge helps businesses send, store, accept, and launch stablecoins instantly. Learn how Bridge is powering stablecoin-backed money movement.
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5 THINGS TO SPEND YOUR CRYPTO ON THIS HOLIDAY SEASON 🎅
Alright, it’s Christmas Eve – so we’re keeping things light n’ breezy today!
Starting with a very important question:
Why do we take steps to grow our personal wealth over time?
- To achieve financial freedom?
- To gain true agency as individuals?
- To build a better future for our families?
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. The purpose is to buy more stuff.
(You didn’t know that? C’mon man, catch up.)
With that in mind, here are 5 gifts you can buy yourself this holiday season using crypto (or add to next year’s wish list). 👇
1. Immortality 😇
No, seriously.
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation offers cryonic preservation services for your body once it goes the way of your Aunt Alice and enters ‘the long sleep’.
(All of which can be paid for using BTC.)
Die → wait for the tech nerds to solve death → get resurrected.
Oh, and bonus: you’ll be in good company once you wake up.
2. GTFO (of the house/country)
Want something a little less morbid/biblical? Say no more.
Travala lets you book holidays using an insane range of tokens at checkout.
(Brb, booking a trip to Barcelona with a mix of Bitcoin Cash and SHIB.)👇
3. The dGEN1
Do you need a hardware wallet that looks like a vision of the future from the 1960’s? No.
But you’ll probably want one. (I know I do.)
And you can buy one using a range of different ETH-based tokens.
Alright, three down, two to go.
Keep scrolling to the next article for more. 👇
STRIPE JUST BET BIG ON STABLECOINS
Stablecoins are arguably the biggest use case in crypto right now.
But let’s be real, using them onchain is still way too complex.
That’s exactly the problem Bridge is solving.
Recently acquired by Stripe (yep, that Stripe).
Bridge helps businesses send, store, accept, and launch their own stablecoins instantly.
Here are the three facts about Bridge:
- Users can seamlessly transition between fiat and stablecoins
- Businesses can launch a custom stablecoin in as little as one day
- All Bridge-built stablecoins are interoperable with one another
Stablecoins are going global, Bridge is powering that shift.
👉 Learn how Bridge is powering stablecoin-backed money movement.
5 THINGS TO SPEND YOUR CRYPTO ON THIS HOLIDAY SEASON (P2) 🎅
Ok, ok.
So a retro-futuristic crypto wallet is cool…. but excessive.
(It’s not something you’re going to use every day).
Then how about a crypto-enabled phone? 👇
4. Solana Seeker Phone 2
Sick of waiting for Android and iOS to adopt broad reaching onchain functionality?
The Solana Seeker has onchain payments, DeFi, AI, DePIN, NFTs, web3 gaming baked into it as standard.
And you can pay for it with (you guessed it) Solana-based tokens.
5. A BTC solo miner
Think of this like a lottery ticket that you buy once, then each day you have a 1 in 25M chance of winning 3.15 BTC.
Which – I know – seems like crappy odds… but they appear WAY better once you compare them to your chances of winning Powerball (1 in 292M).
Plus: it's a one-time payment.
Ok, that’s it. Hope this afforded you a little break from the family madness.
(Oh and – mom, if you’re reading this, I want immortality for Christmas.)
… that or a trip to Cabo.
BITE-SIZED COOKIES FOR THE ROAD 🍪
Arc is now live on testnet. If you’re looking to build on Circle’s layer 1, now’s your chance to test it out.*
Eeeep! Polymarket recently acknowledged that several user accounts experienced losses due to a security issue involving a third-party provider.
Is inflation on the way down? Let’s take a closer look at the latest CPI report…
Check this out: here’s a list of BlackRock’s top allocations by percentage (didn’t realize they were such Apple bulls).
Wanna buy the dip? Milk Road Swap lets you trade across Ethereum and Solana tokens in one clean interface.
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