THE ‘NEVER SELL’ PREACHERS JUST MOVED $521 MILLION IN ONE WEEK — 96% OF IT WENT TO THEIR OWN STOCK AND DEBT, NOT BITCOIN
Strategy spent $192.4M repurchasing its own preferred shares and just $21.5M on 250 BTC. Metaplanet raised $329M — $149M to repay...
THE UK SEIZED 61,000 BITCOIN FROM A FRAUDSTER — A JUDGE JUST RULED THE 128,000 PEOPLE HE ROBBED HAVE TO PROVE IT IN CHINESE LAW
A judge ruled Chinese law governs claims to 61,000 BTC seized from Zhimin Qian. If the 128,409 investors he robbed can't...
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'...
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...
AFRICA’S FIRST BANK JUST OFFERED TO HOLD YOUR BITCOIN — THAT IS NOT CUSTODY, THAT IS CAPTIVITY
Absa became the first African bank to offer Bitcoin custody, chasing a $1.5 billion market. One line in the launch briefing...
COMMUNITY BANKS CALLED BITCOIN A SCAM FOR TEN YEARS. NOW THEY’RE SUING TO KEEP CRYPTO FIRMS OUT OF THE BANKING CLUB.
The Independent Community Bankers of America just sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to block crypto firms from...
THE PEOPLE WHO TOLD YOU TO BUY THE TOP ARE NOW YOUR SELL WALL
Glassnode says the investors who bought last year's rally are now selling more coins per day than at any point in...
THE SEC JUST ADMITTED SELF-CUSTODY IS REAL — THEN BURIED IT UNDER A CONDITION
The SEC proposed new crypto custody rules on Oct 1, letting advisers and funds hold client crypto themselves — but only...
THE ECONOMY ADDED 29,000 JOBS. THE FEED RAISED RATES ANYWAY. NOW WATCH THEM CALL IT A SOFT LANDING.
America added 29,000 jobs in September. Economists wanted 90,000. The Fed raised rates a month ago and markets just celebrated the...
CORE LIGHTNING JUST TOLD THE WORLD ITS NODES ARE GETTING ROBBED — AND IT WON’T SAY WHO OR HOW
The team behind Bitcoin's most-used Lightning implementation says attackers are hitting unpatched nodes right now. They won't name the vulnerability. They...
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GERMANY’S BIGGEST BANK SAID BITCOIN’S SELLOFF WAS ‘A LOSS OF CONVICTION’ — NOW IT’S BUILDING THE VAULT THAT HOLDS YOUR COINS AND YOU WILL NEVER GET THE KEYS
Deutsche Bank launches Bitcoin custody within weeks, then Asia in 2027. It holds the coins. It never hands you the keys....
THE UNELECTED INDEX COMMITTEE JUST VOTED TO FORCE YOUR RETIREMENT FUND TO DUMP BITCOIN — $2.8 BILLION IN FORCED SELLING AND NOBODY ASKED YOU
MSCI just adopted rules that can delete Strategy, Metaplanet and other Bitcoin treasury companies from its global indexes. JPMorgan estimated $2.8...