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....
THEY TOLD YOU YOUR COINS WERE SAFE. ROBINHOOD IS 100% EXPOSED, REVOLUT 99%, BINANCE 83% – AND THE FIX IS CALLED ‘BUNKER MODE’
Justin Drake says move your Bitcoin to fresh addresses. Glassnode: 6M BTC sit behind exposed public keys. Robinhood 100%, Revolut 99%,...
LEDGER SPENT 11 YEARS SELLING YOU SELF-CUSTODY. NOW IT WANTS YOU TO PLEDGE A WRAPPED COPY OF YOUR BITCOIN TO A LENDING PROTOCOL.
Ledger now lets wallet users borrow USDC or USDT against wrapped Bitcoin — 50% LTV, 1% fee, liquidation risk. Crypto lending...
BLACKROCK TOOK $122 MILLION IN ON TUESDAY AND PULLED $207.7 MILLION OUT ON WEDNESDAY — THAT’S WHAT ‘INSTITUTIONAL ADOPTION’ LOOKS LIKE
US spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $484.9M on Wednesday — the biggest daily exit since June 25 — and BlackRock's IBIT led...
THEY PROMISED NEVER TO SELL. THEN $770 MILLION OF SEIZED BITCOIN WALKED INTO COINBASE PRIME — INCLUDING 2,456 COINS NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN
The US government just moved 9,261 seized Bitcoin — $770M — onto Coinbase Prime, including 2,456 coins from holdings nobody has...
ROBINHOOD HOLDS 185,000 BITCOIN FOR YOU – TODAY IT BOUGHT 294 FOR ITSELF
Robinhood custodies 185,000 BTC for its customers. On October 7 it put $25 million of Bitcoin on its own balance sheet...
THEY SAID $250,000. BITCOIN PRINTED ITS OCTOBER LOW AND $550 MILLION OF LEVERAGE DIED INSTEAD
Bitcoin fell to $82,734 - its October low - as Iran's Hormuz threat pushed Brent crude to $102 and 10-year Treasury...
SINGAPORE DEPORTED A BITCOIN LEGEND FOR WRITING PRIVACY CODE – AND WON’T TELL HIM WHY
Amir Taaki wrote BIP 0001 and the first CoinJoin. Singapore questioned him 6 hours, then deported him. Four countries in one...
1.1 MILLION USERS HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT OF THEIR BITCOIN SINCE JUNE — AND THE REGULATOR JUST SAID NO AGAIN
BaFin refused bitcoin.de's MiCA license. Trading has been frozen since June 12 and 1.1 million customers' coins were already moved to...
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...
Quick Reads
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...