New Congress. Same appetite for your transaction history.
Hold your own keys. Protect your privacy. Vote with your money.
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Live on Bitcoin. Buy gift cards with BTC and Lightning. Private by default, no account needed. Canadian, since 2014. Tor: http://6v6ffrjiqp7rywcbtgx5mq4hrc3x5ejeoxgnoq5ejrx464cbqdrfkkyd.onion/
Permission-slip Bitcoin just dropped.
Russia's central bank put BTC on the retail list — brokers, caps, the whole babysitter package.
Hold your own keys.
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Source: 
Crypto Briefing
Russia's central bank approves Bitcoin, Ether and USDT trading for retail investors
Russia's central bank gives retail investors crypto access, approving Bitcoin, Ether, and USDT with regulations for trading limits.
pixiv says Wise suspended its company account, cutting Wise payouts for Thai creators on FANBOX and BOOTH.
Artists did the work. A middleman decided whether they get paid.
Sats don't ask permission.
Live on Bitcoin, anywhere in the world. 🟧
You keep asking why we don't do a reloadable Bitcoin card.
Gnosis Pay just answered: breached. Names, home addresses, card numbers, linked wallets.
That's the KYC pile those cards run on. Hard pass.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Source: 
Data breach on the legacy system powering Gnosis Pay-branded cards - Gnosis Pay
On 3 November 2026, our monitoring systems detected unauthorised access to the system powering Gnosis Pay-branded cards. Our enterprise platform, w...
A man pleaded guilty to copying gift card numbers off store racks and putting the cards back for shoppers to buy.
134 cards in his car.
Skip the rack.
Pay with Bitcoin, get your code.
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Source: 
https://www.firstalert4.com
Man seeking asylum admits to nationwide gift card fraud
A Chinese national pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis to nationwide gift card fraud.
A former FBI agent pleaded guilty to stealing about $2.5M in crypto from investigation wallets.
The people who seize coins can also walk them out the door.
Source: 
Decrypt
Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $2.5M in Crypto From 35 Investigations - Decrypt
Patrick Yaroch drained wallets using credentials the FBI had collected, then asked ChatGPT for advice on starting a new life in Europe.
Gopax froze deposits, withdrawals and trading after a hack threat email, then shoved assets to cold storage.
Your wallet doesn't need a ticket queue.
Hold your keys. Spend your sats.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Source: 
Yonhap News Agency
GOPAX suspends withdrawals following hacking threats | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX said Friday it had su...
They put the anti-Bitcoin senator in charge of the committee that writes the rules.
Cool. We'll be over here buying groceries with sats while they book another hearing.
No permission slip required.
Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/regulation-and-legal/elizabeth-warren-senate-banking-chair-crypto/
Bull Bitcoin just made Payjoin the default on every on-chain trade. Privacy as the default, not a buried toggle.
Spending instead? Payjoin is already on for Bitcoin purchases at https://coincards.com.
Privacy is not a crime. 🟧
Payjoin Trading: A Novel Approach to UTXO Consolidation and Privacy With Automated Collaborative Transactions by Default
Bull Bitcoin is the first exchange in the world to offer Payjoin for deposits and withdrawals, on by default from BULL Wallet.
One day your bank says your savings are safe.
The next day: app gone, cards gone, life savings frozen, and you're waiting on a central bank payout schedule to get a slice back.
Nobody can freeze keys you actually hold. No bank required.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Questioning the system is one thing. Building an alternative is another.
Bitcoin gives us a way to do more than question the status quo. We can build, run, support, and use something different.
Freedom doesn't defend itself.
ECB: the digital euro will have "cash-like privacy."
Translation: the people who print the money would also like full access to your wallet.
Hard pass.
Your keys, your business.
Source: 
European Central Bank
Shaping the future of money
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price...
Today's timeline: "why does nobody actually spend Bitcoin?"
Also today: Block's filing shows it gave up half its Bitcoin profit by cutting fees to get people spending.
We've been on the spending side since 2014.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Source: 
Bitcoin Magazine
Block (XYZ) Sets Aside $764 Million For DOJ Settlement
Block agreed in principle to a $764 million deferred-prosecution deal over anti-money-laundering failures at Cash App, a sum that exceeds its $566 ...
France's National Assembly just voted to make people declare self-custody wallets worth €100k+. Skip it and fines run up to €10,000. Not law yet.
A government list of who holds their own keys. What could go wrong?
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Source: https://cryptoast.fr/plus-de-100-000-e-en-crypto-des-deputes-veulent-que-vous-declariez-vos-wallets/
Heads up: several of the biggest gift card networks are having redemption problems. Some cards may not open or show a code yet.
It's not just us. It's upstream, industry-wide.
Hang on to your card. Support is on it.
Our Tor site is off for now. 🧅
It got hit with 100+ fake orders and contact form spam, and Tor traffic skips the protection that keeps our clearnet site clean.
We'll reassess once the attacks slow down and we can harden tor a bit. 🟧
Halloween's barely over, and we're already talking Christmas shipping. 🎃🎄
Yeah, we know.
Ordering physical gift cards from us? Canada and U.S. shipping deadlines start December 11.
Give yourself extra time and some peace of mind.
https://coincards.com/holiday-shipping-2026
To whoever's pointing AI bots at our Tor site:
We built the .onion for privacy, not for your scraper farm.
Stop attacking it or we pull the plug. Your call.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Stop holding. Start spending.
Gift cards paid in Bitcoin, on-chain or over Lightning. Any fees shown before you pay.
No bank in the middle. Real humans on support. Since 2014.
Follow for the sats-spending life.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
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3 a.m. in Paraguay. One switch.
About 3 million Ueno Bank customers woke up to dead cards, dead ATMs and no transfers. Funds frozen for up to 15 days.
Bitcoin doesn't have a 3 a.m. switch.
Live on Bitcoin. 🟧
Source: https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-ueno-digital-bank-seizure-santiago-pena-9d7521ddee45a185d2618c7e09a243a3