🇸🇻 EL SALVADOR’S RECENT BITCOIN ACCUMULATION CAME FROM PRIVATE DONATIONS, IMF SAYS The IMF says El Salvador’s Bitcoin accumulation since its first program review in June 2025 was funded entirely through private donations and did not involve public resources. The government is not expected to accumulate additional Bitcoin going forward beyond documented donations. The disclosure comes as IMF staff reached an agreement with El Salvador on its latest program reviews, which could unlock another $140 million in financing.

NEW: Pantera's Dan Morehead said the U.S. is printing about $2T extra a year, with the CBO seeing $3.6T in a decade. The U.S. is the world's largest net debtor, and Bitcoin's supply is capped at 21M. That, he said, is what is pulling people out of paper money.

A $70M Hollywood film titled Bitcoin has entered post-production, directed by Doug Liman and starring Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck, Pete Davidson, and Isla Fisher. Reporting around the script says it leans toward Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto. A U.K. court already rejected that claim, and Wright's own site later said he is not Satoshi. Calvin Ayre is tied to the production.

NEW: Japan's 10-year government bond yield touched 3% for the first time since September 1996. The yield has more than tripled in two years. Tokyo already assumed 3% long-term rates when it budgeted debt-service costs for fiscal 2026. Japan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries. Higher yields at home can pull capital out of global risk markets, including Bitcoin.

NEW: Adam Back subscribes €7.6M into Paris-listed Capital B, the Euronext Growth bitcoin treasury firm. The placement is 13,181,030 shares with four warrants each at €0.58 per unit, for about €7.3M net. Capital B says that cash, plus operating funds, could buy 376 more Bitcoin and lift potential holdings to 3,521 BTC.

WARNING: USER REPORTS FUNDS MISSING AFTER DEPOSITING TO NEOXA EXCHANGE A Bitcoin user is warning others after depositing roughly $500 in BTC to NeoEX/Neoxa, which claims to be the first exchange to list BTCB2, the BIP-110 Bitcoin fork. The user says the deposit has received 18+ on-chain confirmations but has still not appeared in their exchange balance after more than three hours, despite the platform stating that only three confirmations are required. The exchange reportedly accepts crypto deposits only and currently displays BTCB2 trading around $93, along with apparent trades of 1–2 BTC. The user believes the displayed trading activity and BTCB2 listing may be fake and is warning others not to deposit funds until the situation is clarified.

BLAKE2B “BITCOIN” TRADES FOR $82 AS BTC HOLDS NEAR $77,000 The BLAKE2b fork is seeing trades around $82 per coin on the Neoxa Exchange, roughly 900x below the price of BTC. The market is also extremely illiquid, with the highest bid at $82 and lowest ask at $190, creating a massive 131.7% spread. Sell orders extend as high as $389, highlighting the thin liquidity and potential for extreme price swings from relatively small trades.

OCEAN NAMES BOB BURNETT NEW CHAIRMAN OCEAN’s Board of Directors has elected Barefoot Mining founder and CEO Bob Burnett as Chairman as the Bitcoin mining pool undergoes a major leadership transition. Burnett has been involved with OCEAN since its founding, served on its original Board, was the first miner to contribute hashrate to the pool and mined OCEAN’s first-ever block. The appointment follows the departures of co-founder, Chairman and CTO Luke Dashjr and Head of Communications Bitcoin Mechanic. Dashjr left following “different visions for the future of Bitcoin mining” and is launching a new mining venture, CONVOY.

NEW: Ireland is building 2027 tax-advantaged savings accounts and leaving bitcoin out of them. Stocks, bonds, and ETFs qualify, while digital assets are labeled "highly complex and risky" and excluded, following a 2025 EU Commission recommendation. An ETF can sit in the wrapper, your BTC cannot.

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🇧🇷 BRAZIL PREPARES WORLD’S LARGEST AUTOMATIC TAX COLLECTION SYSTEM Brazil is preparing to launch an automatic tax collection system that will withhold taxes at the moment a transaction occurs. Under the “split payment” model, part of each payment will be automatically diverted to the government for taxes before the remaining funds reach the seller. The system is expected to begin operating in January 2027, with mandatory implementation planned for 2028. Unlike more limited systems used in countries such as Poland and South Korea, Brazil plans to integrate the mechanism directly into payment methods, potentially covering a massive share of transactions nationwide. Similar systems have faced challenges elsewhere. Bulgaria and Romania abandoned their models after concerns over high costs, fraud and financial pressure on businesses.

NEW: Bitcoin mining in Paraguay consumes 30% of all the energy consumption of the country, with risks of a crisis in 2029 if hydrological conditions remain favourable, according to energy researcher Victorio Oxilia.

NEW: UK Police seize 20.21 Bitcoin ($1.4M) linked to darkweb marketplaces running between 2016 and 2019.

NEW: Lazarus Group moves $19.4M in Bitcoin

NEW: Capital B raises €21M ($24.5M), with participation from Adam Back and TOBAM.

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CORE LIGHTNING WARNS USERS TO UPGRADE OR TAKE NODES OFFLINE Core Lightning developers are preparing an emergency release after receiving a wave of AI-generated CVE reports over the past 10 days and validating vulnerabilities requiring fixes. The team has escalated its response and will release signed binaries while keeping details of the vulnerabilities under embargo for two weeks. CLN strongly urges EVERYONE to upgrade during that window. If you don’t upgrade, developers recommend taking your node OFFLINE due to the known risks. Previous releases, including 26.04, will no longer be supported.

NEW: Bitcoin miner Sphere 3D could face $2.2M in supplemental US tariffs, before interest, on Bitcoin miners a subsidiary it now owns bought in 2022.