Introduction "Not your keys, not your coins." It is the most repeated phrase in crypto. It appears on T-shirts, in Twitter bios, in every post-FTX post-mortem. It is used as a warning, a philosophy, and a rebuke. Most people who say it have a general sense of what it means: you should move your crypto […]
Introduction Over one in three US crypto holders have lost access to a wallet or account. Of those, nearly one in three have never recovered their assets. Over one in ten of those who lost access lost more than $5,000 in a single incident. These are not edge cases. They are the normal outcomes of […]
Introduction Every Bitcoin correction brings the same headlines: "Is this the end of crypto?", "Why I sold everything", and the inevitable post-mortem once prices recover. Most bear market content is about price. When to buy. Whether to DCA. Which assets to accumulate. How to manage your emotions when the portfolio is down 50%. None of […]
Introduction Three days from now, July 1, 2026, the largest crypto exchange in the world will go dark for millions of European users. Binance has told customers in several EU countries that it will restrict services because it will not have the required Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license by the July 1 deadline. Customers in […]
Introduction This morning, June 19, 2026, Microsoft published a warning about one of the most sophisticated cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaigns it has ever publicly disclosed. The malware, which Microsoft has been silently monitoring since February 2026, spreads through infected USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard every 500 milliseconds for seed phrases, private keys, and wallet addresses, […]
Introduction Managing $50,000 in Bitcoin and managing $5 million in Bitcoin are not the same problem with different numbers. They are categorically different security challenges with different threat actors, different custody architectures, and different consequences for every mistake. Someone with $50,000 in Bitcoin faces phishing emails and exchange hacks. Someone with $50 million faces targeted […]
Introduction This morning, June 16, 2026, BlackRock listed the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF on Nasdaq under the ticker $BITA. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas confirmed the launch, describing it as targeting 15-25% annual yield while attempting to capture at least 70% of Bitcoin's upside in the process. The iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) […]
Introduction On June 8, 2026, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX CEO currently serving a 25-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history, formally submitted a presidential pardon request to the US Department of Justice. SBF was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 for […]
Introduction Bitcoin is down. Sharply. On June 4, 2026, Bitcoin traded around $64,100, with an intraday low briefly touching the $61,500 area, more than 51% below its October 2025 all-time high near $126,200. The crypto market lost roughly $390 billion in value as nearly $7 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated. CryptoSlateCoinLaw The proximate causes […]
Introduction If you bought crypto for the first time in the last 12 months, you are not alone. Crypto adoption keeps rising, with nearly one in four adults now holding digital assets in 2026. The combination of spot Bitcoin ETF approvals, institutional adoption, and a maturing DeFi ecosystem has brought a new wave of first-time […]
