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RegulationA Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is forfeited coins, not a buy button
On 6 March 2025 the White House signed an order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve from forfeited BTC. No taxpayer market order was required that day.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
RegulationThe SEC dropped its Coinbase case. That is a dismissal, not a statute.
On 27 February 2025 the SEC filed a stipulation to dismiss its civil enforcement action against Coinbase. The 2023 complaint is off the docket. The Exchange Act is not.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
RegulationRoss Ulbricht’s pardon is Silk Road history, not a market mechanism
On 21 January 2025 Ross Ulbricht, convicted for operating the Silk Road marketplace, received a presidential pardon. The ledger did not come up for a vote.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min readRegulationWhat “regulatory clarity” actually means when you read it in a headline
Policymakers, exchanges, and token issuers all love the word clarity. It rarely means the thing a retail reader hopes: that the hard questions have been retired.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min readRegulationA US election is a vote, not a protocol upgrade
On 5 November 2024 Donald Trump won the US presidential election after a campaign that talked about crypto. A vote is personnel and statutes later. It is not a patch.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationSpot ether ETPs got a listing yes. Trading is a later stamp.
Nasdaq, Cboe and NYSE may list trusts that hold ether. That is the same wrapper idea as January’s bitcoin products — a different asset, still not a wallet.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationSamourai Wallet’s arrests are a legal theory about mixing as a service
On 24 April 2024 the US charged Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill over Samourai Wallet. Privacy software and a business that takes a fee are being argued in court, not on a mailing list.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationUS spot bitcoin ETFs are a wrapper, not a new Bitcoin
BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale and others got to list products that hold bitcoin. You buy a share. A custodian holds coins. That is the product.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationA court rebuked the SEC on Grayscale. That is not an ETF.
Judges said the SEC treated similar bitcoin products differently without a coherent explanation. Shares of a trust still are not bitcoin in your wallet.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationThe SEC sued Binance and Coinbase. Enforcement is not a white paper.
Two complaints in two days alleged unregistered exchange, broker, and clearing functions — and, for Coinbase, an unregistered staking programme. A lawsuit is a theory. It is not “crypto is illegal”.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
RegulationHong Kong’s 2023 retail-crypto day was a licence regime
The AMLO trading-platform rules started. Licensed venues may serve retail with suitability and token due diligence. A start date is not a shopping holiday.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readLatest Regulation news
RegulationThe CFTC asked questions about a crypto exchange licence. Questions are not the licence.
On 5 October 2026 the CFTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The Federal Register printed it on 13 October. Comments run to 14 December. There is no rule text in force.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min readRegulationFinCEN withdrew two wallet proposals that had never taken effect.
On 5 October 2026 FinCEN withdrew the December 2020 unhosted-wallet proposal and the October 2023 plan to treat crypto mixing as a primary money-laundering concern. Both withdrawals took effect on 6 October. Neither draft had ever been in force.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
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