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The SEC and CFTC Stopped Waiting on Congress

Bitcoin ripped back toward $80K this week on three fronts at once. Trump said he'd listen to a bigger government buy, Treasury doubled its long bond buybacks, and a Chinese Nasdaq firm found its own way into the trade. Regulators didn't wait on Congress either.

Aug 23, 2026

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Wall Street Wants In. Strategy Might Get Kicked Out.

BlackRock cut the price of entry for swapping Bitcoin into IBIT by 96%. MSCI is trying to kick Strategy and Metaplanet out of its indexes for the crime of holding too much Bitcoin. UBS tripled its position. JPMorgan more than doubled its. And Tether finally got the audit it promised nine years ago.

Aug 16, 2026

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$111 Million Gone. Clarity Act Delayed. Strategy Sells Again.

The Coldcard exploit has climbed past $111 million confirmed, with Galaxy Research now tracking at least 15 separate attackers. The Senate punted the Clarity Act to September, and Bitcoin shrugged, crossing $65,000 anyway. Putin signed Russia's first comprehensive crypto law while Washington's stalled. Strategy sold another 1,638 Bitcoin below its own cost basis. And BTCPay Server just disclosed an actively exploited vulnerability. Update your server before you read the rest of this.

Aug 7, 2026

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Your Coldcard May Have Generated a Guessable Seed. Here Is What to Check.

On July 30, Coinkite disclosed that a firmware bug had been silently disabling the hardware random number generator on Coldcard wallets since March 2021. Instead of true randomness, affected devices fell back to predictable entropy sourced from device details like the serial number and internal clock. An attacker exploited this and swept 594 BTC, worth approximately $38 million, from about 500 wallets in a 25-minute window early Thursday morning. If you own a Coldcard and generated your seed using the device itself, read this now.

Jul 31, 2026

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The Institutions Just Funded Bitcoin's Survival. The Senate Is Still Trying to Kill Its Future.

Raphael Zagury takes the helm at Twenty One Capital as Jack Mallers returns to Strike following a board split that ended a three-way merger with Elektron Energy. BlackRock, Fidelity, Coinbase, Strategy, and five other firms launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium, pledging $15 million to fund the developers who maintain Bitcoin's code. The Clarity Act got an ethics provision this week and immediately stalled again. A British Bitcoin treasury company just voted to liquidate. And Bitcoin ETFs just posted their longest inflow streak in 21 weeks.

Jul 26, 2026

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