Cryptocurrency regulation and policy
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...
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.
Bitcoin De Minimis Tax Exemption Gains Steam in Congress
House Ways and Means Committee hears testimony on a de minimis tax exemption for small Bitcoin transactions — a move that...
Trump to Banks: Don’t Undermine Our Crypto Agenda
President Trump warned banks against blocking crypto legislation as Senator Lummis pushes the Clarity Act. The battle between Wall Street and...
Retired Couple Sues Bitcoin Depot Over $76K ATM Scam
An Idaho couple lost their entire $76,000 retirement savings to scammers at Bitcoin Depot ATMs. The class-action lawsuit reveals how fraudsters...
ARMA Bill Introduced — US Aims for 1 Million Bitcoin Reserve
Congress just introduced the American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA) — a bipartisan bill to codify a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with a...
Quick Reads
Wall Street’s Short Sellers Just Lost $282 Million in a Day Betting Bitcoin Would Die — and the Treasury Is About to Punish YOU for Their Mistake
Bitcoin smashed $81,000 and liquidated $282 million of short positions in 24 hours — 62% of all crypto shorts wiped out....
BLACKROCK JUST SUCKED IN $503M IN ONE DAY — AUGUST IS ITS BIGGEST ETF MONTH — YOU STILL OWN NOTHING
BlackRock's IBIT just recorded its biggest single-day inflow since May — $502.99M in one day — making August 2026 the strongest...