THAILAND JUST OPENED ITS STOCK EXCHANGE TO BITCOIN ETFs — WHILE FRANCE WROTE A FORM TO MAKE YOU DECLARE YOURS
Thailand's SEC cleared Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs for the Stock Exchange of Thailand from October 16. In the same week, France's...
A BANK WILL LEND YOU MONEY AGAINST YOUR BITCOIN — A CUSTODIAN HOLDS THE KEYS AND A COURT SELLS THEM IF YOU MISS A PAYMENT
South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank is now lending won against Bitcoin. A custodian holds the coins and a court sells them on...
FRANCE JUST VOTED TO TAX YOU FOR LEAVING THE COUNTRY — AND TO MAKE YOU DECLARE EVERY BITCOIN YOU HOLD IN SELF-CUSTODY
France's National Assembly Finance Committee backed an exit tax on crypto above €800,000 and a 31.4% tax on swapping Bitcoin into...
A LENDER SAID IT OUT LOUD: ‘WE’RE VERY HAPPY TO TAKE OWNERSHIP’ OF YOUR BITCOIN WHEN YOU DEFAULT — AND THE BILLIONAIRE PITCHING YOU BITCOIN MORTGAGES HIDES HIS OWN FROM THE SAME LENDER
A Coinbase Asset Management president told a New York conference that lenders are "very happy to take ownership" of your Bitcoin...
THEY TOLD YOU WALL STREET OWNS BITCOIN NOW. THE DATA SAYS YOU STILL HOLD TWO-THIRDS — AND YOU SOLD THEM 696,000 COINS ANYWAY
Individuals still hold 13.9 million BTC — two-thirds of every coin that will ever exist. River data shows they net-sold 696,000...
COLDCARD SPENT YEARS TELLING YOU TO TRUST NOBODY — THEN ITS OWN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT POSTED A LINK ASKING FOR YOUR SEED PHRASE
Coldcard's own X account posted a link claiming a firmware bug. The page was built to collect seed phrases. Coinkite says...
THEY SOLD YOU A ‘FIXED SUPPLY’ — A COUNTING ERROR FROM 2015 COULD HAVE PRINTED BILLIONS OF XRP FROM NOTHING
RippleX quietly patched a decade-old flaw that could have created spendable XRP out of thin air. Here is the difference between...
THEY TOLD YOU BITCOIN IS PRIVATE. THEN THEY TAUGHT YOU TO SWEEP EVERY COIN INTO ONE TRANSACTION – AND YOUR WALLET JUST LINKED YOUR ENTIRE STACK TO YOUR REAL NAME
Cake Wallet's Seth for Privacy warned this week that spending one no-KYC coin alongside a KYC coin links your entire Bitcoin...
TETHER FROZE $1.45 MILLION INSIDE ‘DECENTRALIZED’ THORCHAIN VAULTS — NO WARNING, NO REASON, NO COURT ORDER, AND NOBODY TO APPEAL TO
Tether froze 1.45 million USDT inside a 'decentralized' protocol's vaults with no warning, no reason and no court order. Its only...
THE RICH JUST RAISED $37.5 MILLION TO NEVER SELL THEIR BITCOIN — WHILE YOUR FAMILY IS FORCED TO SELL TO PAY THE TAX BILL
A Bermuda insurer backed by Sam Altman raised $37.5M to let wealthy families borrow against Bitcoin and pass it to heirs...
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Self-Custody Needs a Node: Umbrel + Hardware Wallet
A hardware wallet holds your keys, but your node checks the rules. Pair it with Umbrel for real self-custody.
COINBASE COULDN’T KEEP CUSTOMER MONEY IN THE RIGHT ACCOUNT FOR FIVE YEARS — IRELAND FINED IT $3.6 MILLION, AND WASHINGTON STILL CALLS IT CUSTODY
Ireland's central bank fined Coinbase EUR 3.25 million for leaving customer money in the wrong accounts for five years. Coinbase says...