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“Imagine if Best Buy, Bank of America, Fox News and an NFL team were all owned by the same individual. All of them will have lightning capabilities in the future,” Jose Lemus, CEO of Ibex Mercado, told Cointelegraph. The world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) conference, Bitcoin 2023, in Miami, Florida, passed without major fanfare this year. Past conferences announced nation-state adoption, massive crypto integrations in the United States, and islands and territories worldwide embracing Bitcoin.  Nonetheless, at Bitcoin 2023, one partnership with a potentially significant impact on the world’s 15th-largest economy flew under the radar. We're thrilled to announce our partnership with Grupo Salinas. Looking forward to seeing the positive impact this collaboration will have.️ #Bitcoin #bitcoiconference2023 https://t.co/rkAjWnmKsK pic.twitter.com/yWIWc6751B — IBEX ️ (@PoweredbyIBEX) May 18, 2023 José Lemus, the CEO of Ibex Mercado, closed out the Bitcoin 2023 Industry Day. He announce...

The seller even got help from Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, though it's still up in the air whether the artist actually made the "sale." Crypto Twitter was briefly set ablaze on May 14 with a suggestion that the world’s first real-world purchase made by Bitcoin may have been for a JPEG, not pizza.  In a tweet from independent developer Udi Wertheimer, the Bitcoin advocate shared a screenshot showing what could have been the first-ever purchase using Bitcoin — even predating the infamous Bitcoin Pizza. This Twitter Space was FIRE We discovered that: the first purchase EVER with bitcoin was buying a JPEG for 500 BTC in Feb 2010 it pre-dates the the famous 10,000 BTC pizza satoshi himself helped facilitate the JPEG sale laser-eye cult in absolute SHAMBLES pic.twitter.com/b6ESOkbf0i — Udi Wertheimer ‍️ (@udiWertheimer) May 14, 2023 The posted screenshot is dated Jan. 24, 2010, a full four month s before Bitcoin Pizza Day — where Bitcoin developer ​​Laszlo Hanyecz ...