Australia plans to replace its 50% capital gains tax discount with inflation indexation and a 30% minimum tax floor as digital asset licensing tightens nationwide

More than 100 amendments, union pressure, and bank lobbying now stand between the 309-page CLARITY Act and the Senate Banking Committee markup on May 14 in Washington

The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to a 14-year Federal Reserve governor term, setting up a chair vote as his Bitcoin comments break from prior central bank skepticism

Hardware attestation now required to pass certain reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification challenges, with iOS and certified Android passing while custom ROMs fail by design

Roughly 250,000 unique addresses per day are being gossiped through the network, up from an eight-year baseline of 30,000 to 60,000, with no claimed attribution

American Bankers Association chief Rob Nichols sent an emergency Mother's Day letter to bank chief executives hours before the May 14 Senate Banking Committee markup vote

Switzerland's effort to put bitcoin on the Swiss National Bank balance sheet fell short of signatures, while other state holders are selling or sitting on seized coins

Bitcoin briefly showed at two cents on the Revolut app while the network and major exchanges showed no comparable move, exposing the feeds behind every quoted price

The CLARITY Act greenlights an ETF and brokerage path for Bitcoin while leaving self-custody, privacy tools, and peer-to-peer coordination in regulatory crosshairs

Lars Klingbeil's budget plan could end Germany's one-year tax break for long-term holders, pairing future revenue hunger with Europe's expanding reporting machine

Major pools and miners joined the working group behind Bitcoin mining's open protocol upgrade, pushing efficiency, encryption, and miner autonomy closer to production

Executives say bitcoin-backed digital credit could reach $3 trillion, but the pitch depends on investors preferring engineered yield over simply owning bitcoin outright