Digest: the most important events of April 7

Payment giant Strike has announced integration with Shopify based on the Lightning Network. Rumors of cooperation with Apply Pay have not yet been confirmed, but integration with the second most popular e-commerce solution in the world already indicates 100% acceptance of bitcoin as an alternative payment instrument.

Strike has also announced a partnership with NCR, one of the world’s largest operators of ATM and POS terminal networks. What adds fuel to the fire is that in the near future, it will be possible to cash out cryptocurrency in even the smallest town. And today, you can already pay in a McDonald’s or Walmart (though only in the United States).

Peter Thiel said that Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon (CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co), and Larry Fink (BlackRock Inc) do not allow bitcoin to break through the $ 100,000 mark. He did not provide any concrete evidence other than the skepticism of this elderly trio, but the opinion of Elon Musk’s former partner is always interesting.

In the United States, the tax filing season is approaching and it turned out that the vast majority of crypto investors have not filed their returns. 96% of respondents do not know how to file them correctly, and 74% confirmed that they would not refuse information assistance because of this ignorance.

The island of Roatán in Honduras and the Madeira region of Portugal are planning to accept bitcoin, and a Mexican senator has hinted that negotiations will soon resume to make bitcoin legal tender in the country. In total, about 10 countries are actively considering legalizing the world’s #1 cryptocurrency.