FRANCE IS NOW THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PLACE TO HOLD BITCOIN — ‘KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER’ BECAME ‘KILL YOUR CUSTOMER’: 90 KIDNAPPINGS AND BEATINGS IN 7 MONTHS
France's Interior Ministry logged 90 violent crypto crimes in 7 months — one every 2.5 days. Chainalysis blames the data leaks....
BITCOIN HARDWARE WALLETS JUST GOT HIT: LEDGER TOLD 90 DAYS OF BUYERS NOT TO TURN THEM ON – INVESTIGATORS SAY $86 MILLION IS GONE
Ledger told buyers from a Malaysian reseller not to set up their devices, then told the ones who already did to...
THE 2010 MINER JUST MOVED $8.3 MILLION FOR A $1.22 FEE — WHILE YOU PANIC-SOLD 55,600 BTC AT A LOSS
100.02 BTC mined in July 2010 moved this week after 16 years — for a $1.22 fee. The same week, short-term...
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...
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...
THEY SOLD YOU ‘MINERS SECURE THE NETWORK.’ THEN THEY WROTE OFF $1.5 BILLION OF THE MACHINES AND RENTED YOUR BACKBONE TO THE AI BUBBLE
Public bitcoin miners shed 75 EH/s in H1 2026, about $1.5 billion of mining hardware at $20/TH, while booking roughly $1.1...
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...
BITCOIN’S LOUDEST PURIST JUST TOOK THE BIGGEST MINER’S PAYCHECK TO BUILD A PRIVATE LANE FOR YOUR TRANSACTIONS
Peter Todd spent years arguing nobody should control what gets relayed. Now he runs Slipstream, MARA's private mempool - where a...
THEY SOLD YOU THE BITCOIN PIONEERS. ADAM BACK’S EMPIRE JUST SHOWED YOU WHAT ‘SAFE HANDS’ ACTUALLY COST
Satoshi cited his work. Then a bug let a stranger mint unbacked Bitcoin on his sidechain, his public treasury listing died...
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COINBASE HOLDS 5% OF ALL BITCOIN — IT JUST WROTE THE WISHLIST FOR REWRITING THE NETWORK’S SECURITY. SATOSHI’S COINS ARE ‘A SEPARATE PROBLEM.’
Coinbase custodies about 5% of all bitcoin and just published what it wants Bitcoin's quantum migration to look like — including...
THEY SOLD YOU A ‘COLD’ WALLET WITH A CELLULAR MODEM INSIDE — MEDIAMARKT JUST PULLED EVERY LEDGER OFF THE SHELF WHILE LEDGER CONFIRMS ONE CASE AND $86 MILLION IS GONE
Cellular modules found in Ledger wallets bought from separate MediaMarkt stores. The chain pulled the product internationally. Ledger confirms one implant.