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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
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 read
MarketsBitcoin above $100,000 is a round number, not a strategy
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.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationA 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
SecurityDMM Bitcoin’s theft is Japan’s custody lesson, again
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.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 readBitcoinBitcoin’s fourth halving is the same schedule with new wrappers around it
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.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 read
SecurityA hacked SEC account is not an ETF approval
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.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 readCompanies