George Saoulidis
George Saoulidis is your new favourite bitcoin writer. Find all his stuff at https://georgesaoulidis.com/links
SAYLOR BOUGHT 334 BITCOIN LAST WEEK. STRIVE BOUGHT 2,000 WITH MONEY THAT COSTS 13% A YEAR — AND IT IS ALREADY UNDERWATER
Strive bought 2,000 BTC for $169M last week — six times what Saylor's Strategy bought — funded by preferred stock paying...
$15 TRILLION BLACKROCK SAYS ROBOTS WILL SAVE IN BITCOIN – AND THE ROBOTS WILL HOLD THEIR OWN KEYS. YOU STILL WON’T.
BlackRock's new 'Machine-Native Economy' report says the next big source of crypto demand is software, not people - stablecoins for spending,...
CONGRESS FAILED TO PASS THE CLARITY ACT — SO THE CFTC JUST LEGALIZED LEVERAGED CRYPTO TRADING FOR RETAIL AND ADMITTED IT CANNOT MAKE ANYONE USE IT
The Senate couldn't pass the CLARITY Act, so the CFTC wrote the rules itself: Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM would let...
A MAN WAS BEATEN WITH HAMMERS FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL HE SENT HIS BITCOIN — AND THE ‘EXPERTS’ ARE BLAMING HIS SELF-CUSTODY WALLET
Three masked men, a fourth on FaceTime, 45 minutes of hammers, and a threat to stab a seven-months-pregnant woman. Chainalysis says...
CHINA BANNED CRYPTO FOR 13 YEARS — CHAINALYSIS SAYS SELF-CUSTODY WALLETS GREW 43X ANYWAY
Chainalysis found unique peer-to-peer stablecoin wallets in China grew 43-fold in two years and now drive 59.1% of a $176 billion...
FINCEN JUST KILLED THE DRAGNET FOR YOUR SELF-CUSTODY WALLET — AND TOLD YOU IN WRITING IT’S COMING BACK
FinCEN quietly withdrew its 2020 unhosted-wallet reporting rule and its 2023 “primary money laundering concern” finding on crypto mixing. Coin Center...
GITHUB DELETED BITCOIN DEVELOPERS’ CODE ON A GOVERNMENT’S ORDERS. NOW THE EXIT RAMP IS A PROTOCOL NOBODY OWNS.
India ordered GitHub to geoblock an open-source repository and reportedly gave it three hours. A month earlier GitHub deleted rust-lightning contributors'...
BITCOIN ETFs JUST POSTED THEIR BEST QUARTER OF 2026 — AND BITCOIN IS STILL DOWN ON THE YEAR. HERE IS THE MATH WALL STREET BURIED.
Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.3 billion in Q3 while the year-to-date net is $985 million. A $5.4 billion first-half hole is...
BLOCK JUST SPENT MILLIONS TELLING 60 MILLION AMERICANS BITCOIN IS MONEY — WHILE ITS OWN APP HOLDS THE KEYS
Block's "Bitcoin Does" campaign launched Oct 1 to sell bitcoin as everyday money to 60 million Americans. Then there's the fine...
THE SEC JUST APPROVED 3X LEVERAGED BITCOIN — THE SAME MEN WHO BLEW UP 96% OF YOUR NEIGHBOR’S MONEY ARE BACK FOR MORE
The SEC just cleared six triple-leveraged ETPs from Volatility Shares. Their existing 2x crypto funds are down up to 96.15% annualized...
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THEY’RE WRITING THE CONFISCATION RULES FOR 6.4 MILLION BITCOIN — AND A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IS FIRST IN LINE
Nine crypto firms launched the Quantum Alliance to "prepare" Bitcoin for quantum attacks. The alliance says 6.4 million BTC — 30.2%...
RUSSIA JUST BANNED PEER-TO-PEER BITCOIN AND TOLD YOU THAT YOU CAN’T MOVE YOUR COINS TO YOUR OWN WALLET — THEN GAVE ITS BIGGEST BANK A LICENSE TO HOLD THEM
The Bank of Russia confirmed direct peer-to-peer crypto trades end July 1, 2027 — and that individuals can't move coins from...