Key Takeaways Swedish Tax Agency fined six Boden crypto firms around $56.5 million over illegal tax schemes in 2026. Broad 2024–2026 audits levied over $50 million nationwide, signaling a strict crackdown on mining operations. Bikupan Datacenter faces restructuring and awaits a Supreme Administrative Court ruling on its tax appeal. Audit Uncovers Systemic Tax Evasion The…
Key Takeaways Willy Woo sees parallels between the current market and 2015. Another analyst says his data shows no such decoupling. Different calculation periods can produce sharply different readings. Bitcoin-Stock Split Revives the 2015 Comparison Bitcoin market analyst Willy Woo argued Sept. 6 that BTC’s relationship with stocks had reached its widest divergence in nearly…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Surviving a crypto bull market is surprisingly difficult for retail investors. Even when asset prices surge across the board, up to 93% of retail traders end up losing money. They routinely buy at the peak…
Key Takeaways Capital B bought 376 BTC for $29.4M, lifting its bitcoin treasury to 3,521 BTC. Adam Back and TOBAM-backed funding show firms still using equity markets to expand bitcoin treasuries. Investors will watch whether bitcoin gains can close Capital B’s roughly $80M cost-basis gap. Capital B Adds Bitcoin After $33.3M Private Placement Capital B…
Key Takeaways DBS and Citi basically pulled off a USD payment in just minutes this weekend using Swift’s ledger. Pretty quick compared to how TradFi cross-border payments usually work. Swift’s 17-bank pilot is pushing tokenized deposits closer to becoming an actual 24/7 banking option, instead of something that’s mostly talked about in theory. Citi thinks…
Key Takeaways Hunter Biden plans to launch 1 billion LAPTOP tokens on Base on Sept. 9. LAPTOP reserves 20% for airdrops, including wallets that lost money on TRUMP. Hunter Biden’s project ties 30% of LAPTOP supply to event burns or charity. Biden Takes the Laptop Story Onto Base The token is scheduled to launch Sept….
Key Takeaways Liquid recovered 3,400 BTC worth $268 million, while the actors kept 598.5 BTC. Blockstream patched bridge nodes after an Elements bug helped drain nearly 4,000 BTC. Liquid remains paused Sept. 7 as operators work to restore 1:1 L-BTC backing. The return marks a significant turn in an incident that began Sunday, Sept. 6,…
Key Takeaways Trader 0x362a shorted 15,785 ZEC at $867 on Sept. 4 and is down $5.27M after ZEC hit $1,249. The account also shorts 30,000 tokenized Strategy shares on Hyperliquid, down 52% as MSTR trades near $142. Free margin reads $0 and the ZEC short liquidates at $1,316.95, so a 10% rally erases the $3.76M…
Key Takeaways Data shows altcoin perp open interest passed bitcoin’s on Sept. 6, the first flip since Dec. 2024. Altcoins outside the top 10 top $200B, up 10% in September, and ZEC open interest hit a record $2.4B. The fear and greed index reads 71 and bitcoin’s dominance is 59%, leaving the flip fragile if…
Key Takeaways Liquid Network is paused after hackers drained roughly BTC 4,000 from its federation wallet. L-BTC is now backed by just 4.7% of the bitcoin required to maintain its 1:1 peg. The biggest question is what L-BTC will be worth when peg-outs resume — and who will absorb any shortfall. In the most recent…
