Funds tied to the $577M HashFlare Ponzi-style crypto scam have moved for the first time in over three years, sparking fresh questions about recovery efforts, asset shuffling, and who still has control of the wallets.
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Bitcoin Policy Institute’s Freedom Tech DC 2026 aims to bring Bitcoin, privacy, and self-custody into Washington’s policy crosshairs, framing crypto as financial infrastructure and a civil-liberties fight—not just a price chart.
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Nakamoto is ditching its healthcare business to focus entirely on Bitcoin, betting that a cleaner mission and sharper execution will beat corporate clutter. Bold move — but going all-in on BTC still demands real discipline, not just conviction and a shiny thesis.
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U.S. crypto groups are backing a bill to let miners and stakers choose when rewards are taxed, arguing the IRS shouldn’t demand cash taxes on illiquid tokens. Critics warn it could become a loophole for big players.
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Strive bought 759 BTC for about $50 million, briefly topping Strategy’s latest weekly purchase and pushing its stack to 19,864 BTC. The move boosts its Bitcoin-first treasury push, but its average buy price is still above spot—so, yes, the bags are still a little underwater.
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Japan has arrested a suspect in a Prince Group-linked crypto fraud probe allegedly tied to $15B in dirty money, underscoring crypto’s dark side: scams, laundering, and borderless crime. Bitcoin isn’t the scam — scammers just love the rails.
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USB wallet malware is a hard reminder that cold storage is only as safe as the hardware’s supply chain. Hardware wallets still beat exchanges, but tampered devices, fake products, and sloppy seed-phrase handling can turn self-custody into a costly trap.
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Bitcoin developers are debating whether to remove a legacy wallet privacy flag — a cleanup that could simplify code but also make Bitcoin wallets easier to fingerprint and track. Cleaner software, maybe; cleaner surveillance, probably.
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Strategy bought 520 BTC for $35M and lifted cash reserves to $1.4B, blasting bearish “liquidity crunch” talk. With 847,363 BTC now on the books and most new capital kept as cash, Saylor’s firm looks far less cornered than the doom crowd claimed.
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Two Texas brothers pleaded guilty in a federal case tied to the armed kidnapping of a Minnesota family and the theft of about $8 million in crypto — a brutal reminder that crypto crime can turn physical fast, and privacy is part of security.
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