{"id":72672,"date":"2026-02-17T05:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72672"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:46:45","slug":"bitcoin-can-send-any-amount-of-money-anywhere-on-earth-in-minutes-on-a-bank-holiday-says-michael-saylor-critics-arent-buying-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72672","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Can Send ‘Any Amount’ Of Money Anywhere On Earth In Minutes On A Bank Holiday, Says Michael Saylor \u2014 Critics Aren’t Buying It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Strategy Inc. <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<\/a>MSTR<\/a>) Chair Michael Saylor<\/strong> touted on Monday Bitcoin\u2019s<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <\/a>BTC<\/a>) ability to enable fast and cheap global transfers even on bank holidays like Presidents\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n

Saylor Champions Bitcoin\u2019S 24\/7 Operation<\/h2>\n

Saylor highlighted Bitcoin\u2019s fee estimator on X, with a fee rate of 1 satoshi per virtual byte for instant settlements during periods of low congestion. One satoshi is the smallest unit of Bitcoin, equal to 0.00000001 BTC. At the time of writing, its value was about $0.00068.<\/p>\n

Lightning transactions also include a variable fee component applied to the payment amount. In the given scenario, it was shown to be 0.0003%. <\/p>\n

The screenshot posted by Saylor didn\u2019t show the total transaction amount, but the final transaction fee, including the base fee highlighted earlier, came to $0.44.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a bank holiday, Bitcoin can send any amount of money anywhere on earth in minutes,\u201d Saylor said. <\/p>\n

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On a bank holiday, …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) Chair Michael Saylor touted on Monday Bitcoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: BTC) ability to enable fast and cheap global transfers even on bank holidays like Presidents\u2019 Day. Saylor Champions Bitcoin\u2019S 24\/7 Operation Saylor highlighted Bitcoin\u2019s fee estimator on X, with a fee rate of 1 satoshi per virtual byte for instant settlements during periods of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-72672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}