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Strategy Update: The Largest Corporate Bitcoin Holder Has Now Gone Two Straight Weeks Without Buying a Single Coin — and Spent $139.3 Million Buying Back Its Own Preferred Stock Instead, Roughly 1,781 Bitcoin at Monday’s Close

SGX Update: US Institutions Got a CFTC-Recognised Bitcoin Perpetual Venue Last Week — It Carried $19 Million of Open Interest, at End-August — 0.24% of a Single Crypto-Native Book on Monday — and on the Exchange’s Own Onboarding Timeline No US Client Can Use It for Wednesday’s Fed

SGX won CFTC authorisation under Regulation 48.10 on 10 September to open its bitcoin and

How to Read a Token-Sale Treasury — Six Checks That Tell You Whether a Sale Is Still Running or Has Already Been Cashed Out, Scored on a Live Bitcoin Sale That Emptied Itself on Day Two — Field Guide #48

Six checks that separate a sale still running from one already cashed out: convert the win

Markers Monday: Washington Votes Twice in 48 Hours — Senate Cloture Tuesday, Fed Wednesday — and Bitcoin Goes In With Perpetual Funding 195 Basis Points Above the September Futures Curve, a 300 Basis Point Swing in One Session; T1 Grades a Fail

Two Washington votes in 48 hours — Senate cloture on the CLARITY Act at 14:15 ET Tue

The Bitcoin Token Sale That Paid the Liquid Whitehats in Every Single Mint Emptied Its Own Treasury on Day Two — 1.335 BTC Swept in Seven Transactions Across Two Blocks to Three Addresses With No Prior History

The LEAF / ico-20 sale raised 1.37964517 BTC from 875 addresses in thirty-one hours, then

Revolut Update: A Fake Government Data Request Sent From a Mailbox Inside a Real Government Domain Passed SPF, DKIM and DMARC — and Took Passports, Onboarding Selfies, IBANs and Full Bitcoin Transaction Histories. It Is the Second September Incident in Which Every Authentication Check Passed and the Sender Was Still Not Who They Claimed

Revolut has told customers that passports, onboarding selfies, IBANs, withdrawal records a

How to Read a Flooded Bitcoin Address — Six Checks That Tell a Payment From a Message From a Protocol Marker, Why “1,426 Transactions” Can Mean Almost Nothing Happened, and the Vanity-Address Trap That Defeats Checking the First and Last Four Characters — Field Guide #47

The Liquid whitehats’ address went from 296 confirmed transactions to 1,426 in two d