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In March, a couple in their sixties get tied up in their own home in Le Chesnay (Yvelines) by three men posing as police officers. At knifepoint, the husband is forced to transfer €900,000 in Bitcoin. In February, the head of Binance France narrowly avoids an armed break-in at his home in Paris, the three attackers flee empty-handed after failing to find him there.

These aren't isolated incidents. France's Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on June 30 that the country has recorded 77 kidnappings, extortions, and attempted attacks tied to the crypto sector since January, up from 45 for all of 2025.

For scale: according to data compiled by Jameson Lopp, France alone recorded 19 "wrench attacks" in 2025, more than double the total in the US, and over a quarter of all documented cases worldwide.

The numbers from the minister:

• 200 people arrested over the past year, "either after the fact or preemptively"
• 724 holders and industry figures registered on the immediate identification platform (a direct emergency hotline), up 11% year-over-year
• One case cited: in the Somme, on June 26, perpetrators were arrested just 8 hours after the incident, after the victim used this hotline

The new plan, described as "more ambitious," rests on three pillars:

1. Stronger intelligence sharing to identify criminal networks, some of whose organizers operate from abroad
2. Expanded partnership with ADAN (France's digital asset industry association), including a new expert network bringing together industry and state agencies
3. Stronger operational and international coordination with the countries where organizers are based

On that last point, Nuñez gave a concrete example: after the arrest in Morocco, in June 2025, of a French-Moroccan suspect accused of ordering a string of kidnappings, including that of Ledger co-founder David Balland, kidnapped in January 2025 and freed in a raid by France's GIGN tactical unit, the wave of attacks stopped abruptly, overnight.

Other notable 2026 cases: in April, a family of five was extorted for €700,000.

One technical detail explains in part why Bitcoin holders specifically get targeted: unlike a bank transfer, a Bitcoin transaction signed under duress is irreversible: impossible to block or reverse once it's broadcast to the network. That completely changes the risk/reward calculation for attackers compared to a traditional robbery.

And you, what security measures do you take as Bitcoin Hodlers?

3,588 BTC sold this morning by the person who invented HODLing for corporations.

Saylor broke "never sell" in may with 32 coins as we though but he again sold this morning with 3,588 coins and a $216 million filing.

while 32 coins was a proof of concept to show the market the mechanism works, maintain confidence so now 3,588 coins is a quarterly dividend payment.

Strategy's preferred stock obligations run $750-800 million annually,btc is at $62K against an average purchase price of $75,699 and the equity premium that let them raise cheap capital has inverted into a disc. The model that worked elegantly at $100K btc is running on fumes at $62K lol.

The irony is that saylor understood the self custody argument better than almost anyone and spent years explaining why holding bitcoin through any intermediary like an exchange, an ETF, a corporate wrapper introduces counterparty risk that direct ownership doesnt have but he just bet that his corporate wrapper was different because conviction.

It wasnt diif but leverage and leverage without a timeline is just a margin call waiting for the right price.

Sometimes boring is just correct.

Is 3,588 coins a one quarter event or does this file every quarter until btc recovers above $75K?

I was reading a lot of AI data centres that were planned to be built are now being scrapped due to the cost of AI. I think a lot of these were at the early stages of being built, or construction hasn't been started yet, but what if a large data centre, already built and operational, is deemed too costly to continue providing AI services for whatever reason. Can they realistically pivot into mining bitcoin due to a lot of the infrastructure already needed, being there?

back when credit cards first came out, the majority of people were convinced that they would never become popular because they werent "real money". nowadays almost everyone carries a card.

how long do you thing itll be until bitcoin does the same thing? feels like were currently in the same stage of people thinking its not "real money"

For those who believe the 4 year cycle hasn't break yet, where are we exactly ? Most I heard is the end of the bear will be Oct 2026.

Which one would you recommend? I've been using Cash App to DCA with no fees or spread. Does Strike have anything that Cash App doesn't have?

We're cooked in the short term imo

Every time I think I’m calm, BTC reminds me who’s in charge.

MicroStrategy may have hit a breaking point. If they are forced to sell Bitcoin to cover operational costs, it could trigger a dangerous feedback loop: selling drives the price down, which forces further liquidations. We could be looking at a market bloodbath today, putting a $15k price target on the table before year-end.

BLOOD BATH COMING! You have been warned! Short BTC now

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Wavespace, a Bitcoin neobank serving the Eurozone, has announced MiCA compliance of its ‘self-custodial’ debit card. The young fintech company is at the cutting edge of Bitcoin payments technology in Europe, with support for the Lightning Network, and auto DCA to self-custody.

Debit cards in the Bitcoin and broader crypto industry have traditionally worked by preloading custodial accounts with bitcoin or stablecoins. The process of preloading was usually on-chain, taking time to settle and requiring manual input from the user to send from self-custody wallets or cold storage. If the preloaded balance ran out on the card, spending would not be possible.

Wavespace’s self-custody debit card solves these problems with a novel Bitcoin technology called Nostr Wallet Connect, or NWC for short. This protocol, documented in NIP-47, allows users to connect a service like this debit card to a self-hosted Lightning node. The user sets a minimum balance, say $200 and every time the user spends from the card via the VISA network, Wavespace pulls sats from the user’s self-custodial wallet to top up the card. This process minimizes custodial exchange risk while maximizing user exposure to the asset and automating away the friction to spend bitcoin.

NWC is a technology developed by the Nostr ecosystem, a high-tech niche within the Bitcoin industry that is branching out into social media and other communication protocols.

As a high-tech neobank, Wavespace gives users a personal IBAN account, which they can send fiat to, to purchase Bitcoin. Their automated DCA services can be set to withdraw bitcoin upon purchase to a selected Bitcoin address.

The company is MiCA compliant, making it one of the few surviving Bitcoin exchanges in Europe, as the complicated crypto regulations came online.

On the privacy front, the deep Lightning network integration of Wavespace lets user get access to the banking system in a clear and compliant manner, without exposing all their payment data on the Bitcoin blockchain. Since Lightning payments are off-chain, there is no single public record that leaks user data; instead, transactions move through payment channels between various user services, leaving no obvious public trace. The result is a growing compromise between the high privacy, cypherpunk values that created the Bitcoin and crypto industry, while also unlocking access to the legacy financial system, and compliant integration with regulation-heavy areas like Europe.

In an interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Eivydas Račkauskas, Chief Orange Pill Giver at Wavespace, said that 70% of the payments made on the platform use the Lightning Network and that the company is looking into the ARK protocol for further self-custody-oriented payments integrations. He also revealed that the company is integrated with Lightspark and is ready for an expansion into the USA, though he did not reveal further details on the matter.

Wavespace has been almost entirely bootstrapped and self-funded, according to Račkauskas, except for an early Relai angel investor who supported them in 2025. They are currently in the middle of another fundraising round.

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Is it something to be worried about?

Hey everyone,

I've acquired BTC from June 2025 - March 2026 and been saving up USDC per month to deploy into BTC more aggressively on a nice dip.
This is why I would always recommend DCAing; it's near impossible to time the tops and bottoms of any market perfectly and this assures your average purchase price balances out nicely.
I'm curious to know what your strategy is for BTC, feel free to share!

Of course I buy every week for the last 2 years and the one time I decide not to buy and wait for sub 60k again it shoots back up to just under 64 fml typical, should I wait for October or just continue dca