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...
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, ONE POST ERASED $19 BILLION IN AN HOUR — AND THE SAME TRADERS JUST LEVERED UP AGAIN
The 10/10 crash wiped out more than $19 billion and over 1.6 million traders one year ago today. Traders went into...
THE ‘LEDGER HACK’ WASN’T A HACK: A HIDDEN BOARD UNDER THE SCREEN WATCHED YOUR 24 WORDS WALK OUT OVER CELLULAR
Nobody hacked Ledger's code. Someone wired a second board into the screen, read your 24 words as they were drawn, and...
‘WE KNOW WHERE IT IS’: THE US IS SEIZING $1 BILLION OF IRAN’S CRYPTO — AND NOT A SINGLE SATOSHI OF IT IS BITCOIN
Bessent says the US will seize $1 billion of Iran's crypto this week. Every cent will be a stablecoin or an...
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...