https://easycryptoguides.com/ Latest cryptocurrency news from EasyCryptoGuides. en-gb https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-cancels-crypto-exemption-vote-clarity-that-did-not-happen https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-cancels-crypto-exemption-vote-clarity-that-did-not-happen Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Commissioners were due to consider proposing a tailored offering regime for some crypto fundraising. The session was pulled. Existing securities law did not take the afternoon off. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/trezor-shipmonk-leak-a-parcel-vendor-is-not-the-wallet https://easycryptoguides.com/news/trezor-shipmonk-leak-a-parcel-vendor-is-not-the-wallet Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides ShipMonk told Trezor it had unauthorised access to order data. About 13,700 recent buyers were exposed. Hardware wallets and keys were not. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/delayed-prices-on-a-publication-are-not-a-bug https://easycryptoguides.com/news/delayed-prices-on-a-publication-are-not-a-bug Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Our header quotes a cached snapshot copied from the same production table the old site used. If it says delayed, it is telling the truth — on purpose. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-generic-listing-standards-faster-etp-listings-not-clarity-for-everyone https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-generic-listing-standards-faster-etp-listings-not-clarity-for-everyone Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 17 September 2025 the SEC approved generic listing standards for Commodity-Based Trust Shares, including some digital assets. That shortens a queue. It does not rewrite Bitcoin. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/genius-act-a-stablecoin-statute-is-not-mica https://easycryptoguides.com/news/genius-act-a-stablecoin-statute-is-not-mica Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 18 July 2025 the US president signed the GENIUS Act, the first federal statute aimed at payment stablecoins. Reserves and licences are the plot — not a promise that every dollar token is interchangeable. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/circle-ipo-a-stablecoin-issuer-went-public https://easycryptoguides.com/news/circle-ipo-a-stablecoin-issuer-went-public Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Circle Internet Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 5 June 2025. That is a company event for the firm behind USDC — not a change to the token’s contract. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/coinbase-contractor-breach-insiders-are-still-a-custody-risk https://easycryptoguides.com/news/coinbase-contractor-breach-insiders-are-still-a-custody-risk Wed, 14 May 2025 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides In a 14 May 2025 filing, Coinbase said overseas support contractors stole account data and that it would not pay a $20 million ransom. Keys in cold storage were not the headline. Names were. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-pectra-account-and-validator-changes-not-a-price-thesis https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-pectra-account-and-validator-changes-not-a-price-thesis Wed, 07 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Pectra activated on 7 May 2025. Wallets can opt into contract-like behaviour, validators can get bigger, and rollups get more blob space. None of that is a candle. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-was-forfeited-coins-not-a-buy-button https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-was-forfeited-coins-not-a-buy-button Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-drops-coinbase-case-a-dismissal-is-not-a-new-statute https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-drops-coinbase-case-a-dismissal-is-not-a-new-statute Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bybit-hack-largest-exchange-theft-still-a-company-wallet https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bybit-hack-largest-exchange-theft-still-a-company-wallet Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Bybit lost a record sum from a wallet its signers controlled. Later attribution pointed at North Korea. A 2026 lawsuit tries to freeze what can still be reached. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ross-ulbricht-pardon-silk-road-history-not-a-market-mechanism https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ross-ulbricht-pardon-silk-road-history-not-a-market-mechanism Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/trump-memecoin-a-political-token-is-still-a-token https://easycryptoguides.com/news/trump-memecoin-a-political-token-is-still-a-token Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 17 January 2025 an official TRUMP token launched on Solana. Celebrity and a campaign are marketing. The product is still a mint, a pool, and a wallet. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/what-regulatory-clarity-actually-means-when-you-read-it-in-a-headline https://easycryptoguides.com/news/what-regulatory-clarity-actually-means-when-you-read-it-in-a-headline Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-above-100000-is-a-round-number-not-a-strategy https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-above-100000-is-a-round-number-not-a-strategy Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 5 December 2024 bitcoin traded above $100,000 for the first time. Round numbers are how headlines keep time. They are not laws of physics. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-election-2024-a-vote-is-not-a-protocol-upgrade https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-election-2024-a-vote-is-not-a-protocol-upgrade Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/dmm-bitcoin-hack-japan-exchange-theft-after-coincheck https://easycryptoguides.com/news/dmm-bitcoin-hack-japan-exchange-theft-after-coincheck Fri, 31 May 2024 06:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 31 May 2024 DMM Bitcoin reported an unauthorised outflow of 4,502.9 BTC. A company wallet was emptied. Bitcoin’s rules were not. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-spot-ether-etps-approved-same-wrapper-different-asset https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-spot-ether-etps-approved-same-wrapper-different-asset Thu, 23 May 2024 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/cz-sentence-is-a-person-not-binance-the-chain https://easycryptoguides.com/news/cz-sentence-is-a-person-not-binance-the-chain Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides The founder of Binance was sentenced in Seattle after a Bank Secrecy Act plea. A person went to prison. A token did not get a patch. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/samourai-wallet-arrests-mixing-as-a-service-is-a-legal-theory https://easycryptoguides.com/news/samourai-wallet-arrests-mixing-as-a-service-is-a-legal-theory Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-fourth-halving-same-schedule-new-etf-context https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-fourth-halving-same-schedule-new-etf-context Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 20 April 2024 Bitcoin’s block subsidy halved again, as the code said it would. Spot ETPs were already trading. Those are two facts, not one destiny. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-fees-went-quiet-that-is-still-a-story-about-demand https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-fees-went-quiet-that-is-still-a-story-about-demand Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides When the network is cheap, it is tempting to declare a new era of usability. More often it is a lull in who is bidding for the same block space. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/trezor-support-portal-leak-was-a-helpdesk-not-the-device https://easycryptoguides.com/news/trezor-support-portal-leak-was-a-helpdesk-not-the-device Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides On 17 January 2024 Trezor said a support ticketing vendor had been accessed. Hardware wallets stayed intact. The inbox did not. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-spot-bitcoin-etfs-approved-a-wrapper-not-a-new-bitcoin https://easycryptoguides.com/news/us-spot-bitcoin-etfs-approved-a-wrapper-not-a-new-bitcoin Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale and others got to list products that hold bitcoin. You buy a share. A custodian holds coins. That is the product. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-x-hack-a-compromised-account-is-not-an-approval https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-x-hack-a-compromised-account-is-not-an-approval Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Someone took the phone number behind the SEC’s X login and announced ETF approval a day early. Social media is not the Federal Register. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/binance-guilty-plea-a-company-settled-the-chain-did-not https://easycryptoguides.com/news/binance-guilty-plea-a-company-settled-the-chain-did-not Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides DOJ, FinCEN and OFAC took admissions and a multi-billion-dollar bill. Zhao pleaded to a Bank Secrecy Act failure. The token’s rules of consensus were not in the plea. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sbf-conviction-is-a-fraud-verdict-not-a-protocol-upgrade https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sbf-conviction-is-a-fraud-verdict-not-a-protocol-upgrade Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A founder was convicted of stealing from customers and lenders. That is criminal law. It is not a market mechanism and it is not a reason to rewrite how wallets work. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/grayscale-sec-ruling-a-court-rebuke-is-not-an-etf https://easycryptoguides.com/news/grayscale-sec-ruling-a-court-rebuke-is-not-an-etf Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Judges said the SEC treated similar bitcoin products differently without a coherent explanation. Shares of a trust still are not bitcoin in your wallet. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/coinbase-base-is-an-l2-product-not-a-new-ethereum https://easycryptoguides.com/news/coinbase-base-is-an-l2-product-not-a-new-ethereum Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A public company shipped a layer-2 network with cheap fees and a marketing summer. That is a product launch. It is not a replacement chain. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/paypal-pyusd-is-another-company-dollar-token https://easycryptoguides.com/news/paypal-pyusd-is-another-company-dollar-token Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides PYUSD is redeemable 1:1 in the brochure, backed by cash and short-term Treasuries, and overseen as a Paxos product under NYDFS. Stable is still a claim. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/xrp-headlines-keep-confusing-a-lawsuit-with-a-product https://easycryptoguides.com/news/xrp-headlines-keep-confusing-a-lawsuit-with-a-product Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides XRP coverage often treats a legal chapter as if it were a software release. Readers deserve both stories, separately. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-filing-was-a-wrapper-application https://easycryptoguides.com/news/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-filing-was-a-wrapper-application Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides The world’s largest asset manager asked to list a product that would hold bitcoin. A filing is not a listing. A listing is not a new bitcoin. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-sues-binance-and-coinbase-enforcement-is-not-a-white-paper https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sec-sues-binance-and-coinbase-enforcement-is-not-a-white-paper Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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”. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/hong-kong-retail-crypto-2023-was-a-licence-regime https://easycryptoguides.com/news/hong-kong-retail-crypto-2023-was-a-licence-regime Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides 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. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/eu-parliament-mica-a-vote-is-not-yet-a-licence https://easycryptoguides.com/news/eu-parliament-mica-a-vote-is-not-yet-a-licence Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Europe now has a text the co-legislators have blessed. Firms still need the Official Journal, technical standards, and a supervisor who will actually issue a licence. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-shapella-staking-withdrawals-are-a-queue-not-an-atm https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-shapella-staking-withdrawals-are-a-queue-not-an-atm Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Validators can exit and excess rewards can sweep to an execution address. Both wait in a protocol queue. That is not the Merge, and it is not Dencun. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/usdc-wobble-2023-banking-rails-are-part-of-the-product https://easycryptoguides.com/news/usdc-wobble-2023-banking-rails-are-part-of-the-product Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A regulated dollar token left $1 on a Saturday because a chunk of its cash was at a bank in receivership. Stablecoins run on banking hours even when the chain does not. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sbf-arrest-is-a-custody-fraud-case-not-a-protocol-bug https://easycryptoguides.com/news/sbf-arrest-is-a-custody-fraud-case-not-a-protocol-bug Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides The founder of FTX was taken in Nassau after SDNY filed charges. That is extradition and a docket. It is not a patch to a chain. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/why-bitcoins-weekend-move-is-not-a-strategy https://easycryptoguides.com/news/why-bitcoins-weekend-move-is-not-a-strategy Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Bitcoin can lurch while desks are empty. This weekend that lurch had a company behind it. The useful question is still whether anything changed for you — not whether the candle was red. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-merge-changed-consensus-not-the-fee-meter-by-itself https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ethereum-merge-changed-consensus-not-the-fee-meter-by-itself Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Validators replaced miners. Issuance and the power bill changed. Blobs and quiet layer-2 fees are a later upgrade. Withdrawals are later still. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ofac-tornado-cash-sanctions-code-mixers-and-who-may-touch-what https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ofac-tornado-cash-sanctions-code-mixers-and-who-may-touch-what Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Treasury said the service had laundered billions, including proceeds attributed to North Korean hackers. Compliance desks now have addresses to avoid. A protocol mailing list is not the SDN list. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/voyager-bankruptcy-was-credit-exposure-not-a-chain-halt https://easycryptoguides.com/news/voyager-bankruptcy-was-credit-exposure-not-a-chain-halt Tue, 05 Jul 2022 22:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A public crypto broker had lent a huge unsecured book to one hedge fund. When that fund failed, the app pause became a court file. Bitcoin kept producing blocks. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/celsius-pause-and-three-arrows-were-credit-not-a-protocol https://easycryptoguides.com/news/celsius-pause-and-three-arrows-were-credit-not-a-protocol Sun, 12 Jun 2022 23:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Yield apps and hedge funds that rehypothecate coins can gap. Terra’s unwind was the match. The fire is counterparties. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/terra-ust-luna-collapse-an-algorithmic-peg-is-a-design https://easycryptoguides.com/news/terra-ust-luna-collapse-an-algorithmic-peg-is-a-design Thu, 12 May 2022 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A token that was supposed to stay at $1 by minting and burning LUNA hyperinflated the seigniorage coin instead. Anchor’s yield was demand, not a law of physics. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ronin-bridge-hack-was-a-bridge-not-the-chain-failing https://easycryptoguides.com/news/ronin-bridge-hack-was-a-bridge-not-the-chain-failing Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Sky Mavis’s sidechain bridge did what a 5-of-9 scheme does when five keys are in the wrong hands. Ethereum mainnet kept producing blocks. The game’s on-ramp did not. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/biden-digital-assets-order-was-a-process-memo-not-a-ban https://easycryptoguides.com/news/biden-digital-assets-order-was-a-process-memo-not-a-ban Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides The White House asked for reports on consumers, financial stability, illicit finance, competitiveness, inclusion, and a possible US CBDC. That is coordination. It is not a protocol change. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/wormhole-hack-was-a-bridge-bug-jump-made-users-whole https://easycryptoguides.com/news/wormhole-hack-was-a-bridge-bug-jump-made-users-whole Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A signature-check failure on the Solana side of a cross-chain bridge printed IOUs that were not matched by ether on Ethereum. Users of the wrapped token got made whole by a company, not by maths. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-taproot-was-a-script-upgrade-not-a-rebrand https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-taproot-was-a-script-upgrade-not-a-rebrand Sun, 14 Nov 2021 05:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides A soft fork locked in over the summer and activated on schedule. Complex spends can look ordinary on-chain. That is capability, not a new coin and not a price law. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-near-69000-was-a-print-not-a-new-era https://easycryptoguides.com/news/bitcoin-near-69000-was-a-print-not-a-new-era Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides US CPI came in hot. Futures ETFs were already a story. Taproot was four days away. A round number is still a last trade, not a destination. https://easycryptoguides.com/news/china-crypto-ban-2021-was-a-ban-on-business-not-on-math https://easycryptoguides.com/news/china-crypto-ban-2021-was-a-ban-on-business-not-on-math Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:00:00 GMT EasyCryptoGuides Exchanges, brokers, token sales and derivatives serving mainland residents are out. Holding a key is not the same as running a venue. May’s mining crackdown was a different instrument.