The bank collapses have started!
🇵🇾PARAGUAYS LARGEST BANK JUST COLLAPSED.
What's wild is only days ago they were incentivising people to deposit money in the bank for a "50% cashback" promotion.😅😂
Absolutely criminal.
Monday: Tuesday:
The blue wave will lead to more money printing.
The accelerated money printing will lead to higher prices in bitcoin, gold, and productive land.
Don't fight the money printer.
WTH?! The EU has officially lost it's damn mind. They are going to taxing ai businesses, when they have no ai businesses. Keeping new businesses from being created and now if the zombie apocalypse comes they want people to think about how to pay the banks and other bills?!
🇪🇺 The EU is telling 450 million people to pack an EMERGENCY bag.
And it has put “payments” on the same list as food, water and medicine.
On November 3, Brussels unveiled new crisis guidelines.
The rule: every household should be able to survive the first 72 hours of an emergency on its own, with a grab bag ready to go.
The 7 things the EU says you NEED to cover:
1. Food
2. Water
3. Heat and light
4. Medication
5. Hygiene
6. Information
7. Payments
Why payments?
Because card machines and banking apps NEED power and internet.
In April 2025, when Spain and Portugal lost power, card terminals went dark and people queued at cash machines that still worked.
Some countries are already going FURTHER than Brussels:
• Sweden tells people to cope on their own for a full week
• The Netherlands raised its advice from 48 hours to 72
• France published a 27-page survival guide
The EU even wants an annual Preparedness Day, starting October 23, 2027.
The guidelines are non-binding. Brussels says the goal is to avoid panic, not cause it.
But the message is clear. People are expected to have a way to pay that doesn’t depend on the grid.
If the power went out tomorrow, how would you pay for anything?
To truly understand Bitcoin you must have some grasp of:
- Economics & Money
- Open-Source Software
- Computer Science
- Game Theory
- Politics and Law
- Trading and Investing
- Digital & Physical Security
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BREAKING: BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY'S BLOCK JUST RELEASED A MAJOR #BITCOIN AD CAMPAIGN
THE AD IS TARGETED AT THE 60,000,000 BTC-CURIOUS AMERICANS
"WE BELIEVE IN A BETTER SYSTEM WHERE NOBODY CAN PRINT MORE MONEY. THAT'S BITCOIN"
THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO TAKE BTC MAINSTREAM
THIS IS THE WAY �
JUST IN: 🇩🇪 Germany’s tax-free Bitcoin era comes to an end in proposed draft bill.
• 25% tax plus surcharge hits 2027 buys.
• Pre-2027 holdings keep 1-year tax exemption.
• Feedback deadline set for October 6.
🚨Important Heads-Up for Crypto Investors in Portugal: Watch Out for the "Tax Haven" Trap on Your Trades! 🇵🇹
Many of you moved to Portugal attracted by its relatively favorable crypto environment, especially the potential for 0% capital gains tax on long-term holdings (over 365 days). But there's a nuance that can quietly turn that 0% into 35%.
Under Portuguese tax rules, capital gains from crypto assets (Category G) and certain investment income (Category E) are normally taxed at 28% for short-term disposals (or exempt for long-term under specific conditions). However, if the counterparty to the transaction is located in a jurisdiction considered a "tax haven" (paraíso fiscal) according to Portugal's official blacklist, the rate jumps to 35%.
The rules for traditional assets (like stocks) already apply this 35% penalty when the counterparty is in a blacklisted jurisdiction and while crypto regulations aren't 100% explicit on mirroring this exactly, the parallel is strong enough that it's prudent to avoid the risk altogether.
What counts as the "counterparty"? It can include:
1⃣The country where your exchange's EUR/bank accounts are held
2⃣The location of the exchange's operating office
3⃣The jurisdiction of the exchange's operating license
If all of these point to a blacklisted jurisdiction, you're potentially exposing your gains to the higher 35% rate.
This is the list of fiscal paradises in Portugal: https://t.co/KwDfEagyIK
My personal advice?
If your current exchange setup falls into this category, consider migrating to a platform licensed/operated in a non-blacklisted jurisdiction (ideally EU/EEA or a DTT/TIEA country) to stay on the safe side and protect those long-term exemptions.
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🇪🇺 Europe’s first major institutional gathering since MiCA fully came into force.
Join us and connect with the leaders shaping Europe’s digital asset future! https://t.co/THt2QcWPO3
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🚨107 BITCOIN WORTH $8.3 MILLION JUST VANISHED FOREVER
Five long-dormant wallets suddenly transferred 107 BTC to a burn address yesterday, permanently removing roughly $8.3M worth of Bitcoin from circulation after sitting untouched for more than 11 years.
Destroying this much value in a single transaction is almost unprecedented in Bitcoin history.
What do they know?
⚠️Be cautious when using @bitvavocom crypto exchange as a Portuguese resident
Even though the platform offers a “Convert” feature that appears to let you swap one cryptocurrency directly for another (e.g. Bitcoin to Ethereum), Bitvavo executes these trades by selling the source asset for euros and then buying the target asset with those euros in the background.
Example:
What you intend: Swap Bitcoin → Ethereum (hoping to keep it as a non-taxable crypto-to-crypto move).
What actually happens: Bitcoin is sold for € → Ethereum is bought with those €.
This creates a taxable events under Portuguese rules: a disposal of BTC .
With the implementation of DAC8 (which increases reporting from exchanges to tax authorities starting 2026), Portuguese tax authorities will receive detailed transaction data from Bitvavo.
As a result, these internal fiat conversions may be treated as realised capital gains, potentially triggering 28% tax on short-term gains (assets held less than 365 days).
Your intention of simply rebalancing within crypto could therefore lead to an unexpected tax liability....
I can NOT overemphasize this enough:
DO NOT TRUST EMAILS
DO NOT TRUST PHONE CALLS
DO NOT TRUST SMS MESSAGES
DO NOT TRUST CHAT MESSAGES
DO NOT TRUST INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS!
Any message saying there is a security problem with an account that needs to be urgently fixed is a 🚩
Tokenization is no longer theory. It’s becoming the backbone of modern finance. 🚀
Tyler breaks down how fixed-rate, fixed-term lending could eliminate some of DeFi’s biggest pain points:
⚡ Floating rate chaos
⚡ Oracle dependency
⚡ Contagion risk