George Saoulidis
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Japan Pension Fund Allocates 1% to Crypto via Hedge Fund
A $130M Japanese pension fund plans 1% crypto allocation through a hedge fund. Japan's tax cuts and regulation are driving adoption...
Illinois Passes 0.2% Tax on Every Bitcoin Transaction
Illinois Governor Pritzker signed SB 3019, taxing every Bitcoin transaction at 0.2% — even when you lose money. Self-custody is the...
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Called Bitcoin “Your New Gold” — Now He Runs the Fed
Kevin Warsh once said "if you're under 40, bitcoin is your new gold" on CNBC. Now he's Fed Chair after his...
Taiwan’s Central Bank Explores Bitcoin as Strategic Reserve
Taiwan's Central Bank met with the Bitcoin Policy Institute to discuss adding Bitcoin to its $602B reserves as a geopolitical hedge...
BitGo Joins Fortune 500: Bitcoin Custody Goes Mainstream
BitGo becomes the first crypto infrastructure company on the Fortune 500. What this milestone means for Bitcoin custody, OCC regulation, and...
Bitcoin Difficulty Drops 10% — Second-Biggest Drop of 2026
The 11th biggest difficulty drop in Bitcoin’s entire history just happened—and most people didn’t notice. On June 14, 2026, the difficulty...
T. Rowe Price Crypto ETF Approved: Wall Street’s Altcoin Basket
The SEC approved T. Rowe Price's TKNZ ETF — an actively managed basket of up to 15 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Dogecoin,...
Japan Slashes Bitcoin Tax From 55% to 20% — What It Means
Japan passed a bill cutting Bitcoin taxes from 55% to 20% and classifying crypto as financial instruments. Here's what this means...
Hungary Decriminalizes Bitcoin: End of the Orban-Era Crypto Ban
Hungary's new government scraps criminal penalties for Bitcoin trading, replacing Orban-era jail terms with EU-compliant MiCA licensing for crypto services.
BlackRock Files for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) — Wall Street’s Latest Bitcoin Wrapper
BlackRock filed an amendment for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), a covered call ETF that generates yield from Bitcoin....
Quick Reads
THEY HIKED YOUR MORTGAGE $85 A MONTH — AND BITCOIN SPIKED IN THEIR FACES ANYWAY
The Fed raised rates for the first time since 2023. Bitcoin spiked anyway. Here’s why that’s the best advertisement Bitcoin ever...
THEY KILLED YOUR CRYPTO PROTECTION ON MONDAY. TODAY THEY VOTE TO LOCK UP THEIR OWN BITCOIN FOR 20 YEARS
THEY KILLED YOUR CRYPTO PROTECTION ON MONDAY. TODAY THEY VOTE TO LOCK UP THEIR OWN BITCOIN FOR 20 YEARS Monday, the...