NEW: There is “roughly an 80% chance” 🇹🇼 Taiwan establishes a strategic Bitcoin reserve within five years and close to 100% within ten, says Taiwanese legislator Dr. Ko Ju-chun.

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🇨🇳 CHINA MAY TREAT CRYPTO MIXERS AS MONEY LAUNDERING RED FLAGS Senior Chinese legal scholars and prosecutors are calling for a sweeping overhaul of how the country investigates and prosecutes cryptocurrency-related money laundering, arguing that Bitcoin, stablecoins, mixers, privacy coins, and decentralized exchanges have outpaced existing laws. The proposal highlights three major weaknesses in China’s current framework: difficulty charging offenders under existing statutes, challenges collecting and authenticating blockchain evidence, and obstacles recovering crypto assets moved across borders. Among the recommendations are expanding money laundering investigations, requiring blockchain forensic analysis in criminal cases, recognizing on-chain data as admissible evidence, allowing courts to infer criminal intent from the use of mixers, privacy coins, and anonymous wallets, and giving investigators broader authority to conduct blockchain surveillance and technical investigations. The paper also calls for a national platform to seize, custody, value, and liquidate confiscated crypto assets, along with stronger international cooperation to trace, freeze, and recover digital assets transferred overseas.

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BITCOIN BANK ADOPTION STILL IN EARLY STAGES: STRATEGY Strategy has introduced its Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index, estimating that major banks and financial institutions are 32% of the way through Bitcoin adoption. The company says adoption of Bitcoin and the broader digital asset ecosystem is accelerating but remains in the early stages. Strategy added that details on the index’s methodology and future updates will be released later, and invited institutions to submit questions, corrections, or additional public data. $BTC

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BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE MOVES TO INTERVENE IN ‘ABANDONED BITCOIN’ LAWSUIT The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) has filed a motion to intervene in the New York “Abandoned Bitcoin” case, where an anonymous plaintiff, “Noah Doe,” is seeking a court declaration granting legal ownership of allegedly abandoned Bitcoin, including coins widely believed to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto. If granted, BPI would become an intervenor-defendant, allowing it to participate directly in the case. Court filings argue the nonprofit has a strong public interest in the outcome given its work on Bitcoin policy and civil liberties.

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DID YOU KNOW: Someone vibecoded a website that turns the 1 second Bitcoin chart into a live action war between bulls and bears.

We all miss $100K Bitcoin. But BTC has only spent 217 days above $100K in its entire 6,397-day history. That's just 3.4% of its existence. Patience.

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Bitcoin Core drops version 31.1.

SENATOR URGES SENATE TO KEEP NON-CUSTODIAL BITCOIN DEVELOPER PROTECTIONS IN CLARITY ACT Sen. Ron Wyden urged Senate leaders to preserve the BRCA provision in the CLARITY Act, warning that removing protections for non-custodial, open-source developers would undermine legal certainty for Bitcoin and crypto software while doing little to combat illicit finance. Wyden argued developers who never control user funds should not be treated as money transmitters.

Bitdeer unveils the new Sealminer A4 Ultra Hydro, a Bitcoin ASIC with 1 petahash (1 quadrillion calculations/s).

BREAKING: Polymarket has enabled instant Bitcoin deposits via the Lightning Network, powered by Spark. Users can now fund prediction markets with self-custodial BTC in under a second.

NEW: The Digital Chamber files an amicus brief urging to dismiss the New York lawsuit seeking ownership of 3,8 Bitcoin, as it would set a dangerous precedent for self-custodial wallets.