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Since September 1, 2026 the peer-to-peer marketplace Peach Bitcoin no longer co-signs the release of trades itself. The provider has suspended its escrow co-signature and is operating without
The Pi mainnet is running on protocol 26 on September 2, 2026. The first testnet has been on protocol 27 since August 20; the second testnet is still on 26 today. Specialist media name Septem
$Ethereum is holding the $2,500 handle, but it is not moving with anything like the conviction $Bitcoin showed yesterday. ETH trades at $2,517.8, up marginally against a previous close of $2,
Receiving Bitcoin as salary: how Austria taxes income and later price gains Where an Austrian employee is paid wholly or partly in Bitcoin, taxation is not simply deferred until the coins are
Poland’s lawmakers have once again fallen short of the supermajority needed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of a bill intended to tighten oversight of the country’s crypto market.
Bitcoin as Loan Collateral: When No Tax Arises in Austria Owning Bitcoin, needing liquidity, and yet not wanting to sell the coins: crypto loans promise exactly that model. The investor pledg
Bitcoin Lost in a Wallet Hack: Can the Loss Be Claimed for Tax in Austria? A wallet hack can amount to a complete economic loss for investors who hold Bitcoin. For tax purposes, however, losi
Two numbers are telling opposite stories about XRP right now. US spot XRP ETFs took in $110.49 million in the week ending August 28, their strongest week of 2026, pushing cumulative inflows t
If you hold CORE, one question currently comes before the price: the question of where it sits. If your holding is on an exchange, it may have been stuck since 31 August, depending on the pro
MSCI opened a consultation on August 14, 2026 that would strip companies without a meaningful operating business out of its global equity indexes. On the index provider's own simulation, that
On September 20, and again at the end of October, a new blockchain will read Bitcoin's ledger and credit every bitcoin balance with the same amount of a new coin called ECX. Your bitcoin stay
If you have liquidity sitting in an old Balancer V1 pool, you have to withdraw it yourself. Nobody can pause those pools for you. On August 31, 2026 Balancer called on liquidity providers to
