c/crypto-news

For traders in the EU, there's been a lot of chatter about MiCA and its impact on crypto exchanges. A lot of exchanges are either limiting what they offer to European users or pulling out of the region entirely. This puts a lot of capital at risk and users need to be proactive about it. For those who don't know me, I work in web3 and write content on projects and what's happening in the space. The exchange Bitpanda is running a campaign that fits this moment and helping out users who may be looking to switch exchanges. They're one of the longer-standing European platforms that's fully regulated and stayed compliant through the MiCA transition, and right now they'll pay you to move assets over. The campaign is called Bring Your Assets. Basically, you transfer your crypto into a Bitpanda account, leave it 30 days, and get 5% back paid in Bitcoin. Bitpanda is a regulated custodial exchange, so while you won't be able to do anything onchain, if you're a "buy-and-hold" type of investor and want the benefits of a CEX, this is a nice little boost. If you keep everything in self-custody and never touch an exchange, this isn't aimed at you. Where it makes sense is if you already hold balances on exchanges, or your current European venue is one of the ones cutting back, and you'd rather consolidate onto something regulated that isn't going anywhere. Effectively, you're getting paid 5% to move assets. Some details: The campaign runs from 18 June to 5 July 2026. You transfer crypto into your Bitpanda account through the app or website during that window, and it needs to stay there for 30 days. Everyone who qualifies gets 5% cashback paid in Bitcoin on the amount they bring over. The first 1,000 participants who move €1,000 or equivalent lock in €50 in BTC, which is that same 5% shown as a round number. Cashback is credited by 30 July 2026. It's open to fully verified users in selected European countries, with the full list on the campaign page (https://www.bitpanda.com/en/campaigns/bya-june-26). MiCA is going to keep separating the platforms that did the regulatory work from the ones that didn't, and EU users are going to keep consolidating toward the compliant ones. Bitpanda paying to accelerate that is a smart use of the moment. If you were already going to hold on an exchange, 5% in BTC to pick a regulated one is a reasonable deal. Note: While I did my due diligence and there's no obvious risk with Bitpanda collapsing, I obviously can't guarantee that. Please make sure you are familiar with the risks associated with custodial accounts. Bitpanda has been around for quite some time and has never had any issues. DYOR & NFA - this post is for informational purposes. submitted by /u/TimmyXBT [link] [Kommentare]

So i've been using Bisq and got some btc in electrum wallet, and i wanted to buy some XMR. I had sent myself the exact amount of BTC Bisq displayed as needed to be sent, but electrum wallet told me i also have to pay for the mining fee which i had totally forgot about. Consulting mempool i saw a high priority fee (2 sat/vbyte) would be like 10 cents, should i just send 1 $ more in btc to my wallet and go on with the transaction? submitted by /u/MaterialDrummer7454 [link] [Kommentare]

I sold my last startup to build to build GM Markets It makes the global equity market accessible as on-chain tokens. The core flows: connect, deposit, trade, withdraw, work end-to-end and are backed by 1:1 custody. But you should expect rough edges as we iterate quickly. Some surfaces are marked with a small "Beta" tag to flag where the experience is still evolving (e.g. leaderboard, the AI assistant, real-time chart data). Trade with funds you can afford to test even with adding any fund you can just get on the product test it and share the experience in th ecomments of DMs. Pls do share youe experience or anything that surprised you. submitted by /u/Economy-Mud-6626 [link] [Kommentare]

The last cycle for altcoins was very disappointing. One of the few chains that did reasonanly well was Solana, driven by the memecoin narrative. However, i believe that this stupid narrative is precisely why we didn't see gains across all the other blockchains. In my opinion, the only way to get wagmi back is for everyone to move away from memecoins, which have diluted the entire market and, to make matters worse, made the whole crypto space look like a dumb scam. I think we could turn last poor cycle into a period of double accumulation if the memecoin narrative were to disappear completely. Attention would then shift back to the major blockchains and we would get the attention of 2019/2020/2021. Whether it's ETH, ADA, VET, ICP, SUI, ALGO, XLM, AVAX, LTC, etc. - as long as it's a major blockchain, we would get that wagmi back. Wouldn't it be a lot cooler to have all the people win that stayed in the space instead of giving the next cycle again away to influencers and wannabie stars that scam with their memecoin? What's your take on this? submitted by /u/Timely-Fig2030 [link] [Kommentare]

Binance released 12.93 ETH before my country's investigation could even reach them. I accept my mistake, but I still don't believe this was a fair outcome. Binance ID: 18023508 Case ID: 2262356179 Order No: 22805267579357126656 Hello everyone, I'm sharing my experience because I hope it helps others avoid what happened to me, and because I genuinely believe this case raises important questions about how cross-border P2P disputes are handled. I have used Binance for about five years and completed many P2P trades without major issues. I understand the platform's rules, and I'm not here to claim that I did everything perfectly. Unfortunately, one trade changed everything. I opened a P2P order to buy 12.93 ETH (around €40,000). During the order, the seller told me inside the Binance chat that his bank account was blocked and asked me to pay through Payeer instead. He personally sent me the Payeer account details in the official Binance order chat. Believing I was following the seller's own payment instructions, I completed the payment immediately and uploaded full proof. Instead of releasing the ETH, the seller later claimed that his account had been hacked and that the money had gone to someone else. At that moment I realized this was no longer an ordinary P2P dispute. I immediately reported the case to the Turkish Cyber Crimes Prosecutor's Office. The prosecutor officially opened an investigation and issued a written order instructing Turkish cyber police to contact Binance through official law-enforcement channels and request that the disputed crypto remain frozen during the investigation. From that point on, I believed the legal process would be allowed to continue. Unfortunately, that never happened. I personally visited the cyber police office four different times asking whether Binance had been contacted. Every visit ended with the same answer: "Come back later." Eventually I was simply told to leave. While I was waiting for the authorities to complete their part of the process, Binance closed the dispute. Later Binance informed me that Vietnamese law enforcement had contacted them on behalf of the seller, but they had received nothing from Turkey. As a result, Binance released all 12.93 ETH back to the seller. The seller immediately withdrew the assets. My money was gone. I want to be completely honest about one important point. Yes, I made a mistake. I paid to the Payeer account that the seller sent me inside the Binance order chat instead of using the payment account shown on his Binance profile. I fully accept responsibility for making that mistake. I am not asking anyone to ignore Binance's rules or excuse my error. What has been extremely difficult for me to accept is what happened afterward. Once a criminal investigation had officially started, and Binance had been informed that legal proceedings were underway, I genuinely believed the disputed assets would remain frozen until law enforcement had a reasonable opportunity to communicate with Binance. Instead, the case was finalized before my country's authorities ever managed to send their request. That decision meant I permanently lost 12.93 ETH. This has been financially devastating for me. I am not sharing this to attack Binance or ask strangers for sympathy. I am sharing it because I believe users should know how vulnerable they can become when a dispute involves multiple countries and communication between authorities is delayed. If nothing else, I hope my experience encourages discussion about whether disputed assets should remain frozen when a documented criminal investigation is already in progress but international communication has not yet been completed. I have retained all evidence, including payment records, Binance chat logs, prosecutor documents, timestamps, and correspondence. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. submitted by /u/Next-Witness891 [link] [Kommentare]

​ So I got talked into investing in this crypto project called GTBS (Gatbits) and the more I look into it, something doesn't feel right. They promised ₹50k a month for putting in ₹5 lakh, and claimed the whole thing is backed by some Sheikh in Dubai. But when I dug deeper, I found some weird stuff: The partnership letter from the Sheikh's office appears to be fake. I can't figure out where the ₹50k/month actually comes from. It doesn't add up mathematically. Has anyone else invested in this? Are you actually making money or getting paid out? Or is this the usual Ponzi thing where early investors get paid from new money coming in? Would appreciate if anyone has actual info about this project or if I'm just paranoid. submitted by /u/No-Situation4626 [link] [Kommentare]

I am the author of the original Bitcoin Rainbow Chart on blockchaincenter.net. As you may know... It is dead! We already added a new color to prolong its life but even that could not save it. BUT: The model behind the original Rainbow Chart was from 2014...we now have 12 more years of data to fit a curve... And thats what I did. The new Bitcoin Rainbow is dynamic which means it calculates a new regression up until the current day... So if we make a lower low, it will adapt. The Bitcoin Rainbow Chart is dead, long live the Bitcoin rainbow Chart submitted by /u/blockchaincenter_de [link] [Kommentare]

A quick google search of crypto lendin companies that went bust: Several major cryptocurrency lending companies collapsed during the 2022 market downturn, setting off a domino effect across the industry. The highest-profile failures include: BlockFi: Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2022 after the collapse of FTX, which had previously extended a credit line to keep the lender afloat. Celsius Network: Filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 due to a massive liquidity crisis triggered by falling crypto prices and heavy exposure to the collapsed Terra ecosystem. Voyager Digital: Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2022 following massive defaults by the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). Genesis Global: The prominent institutional crypto lender filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2023 after suffering catastrophic losses from its loans to 3AC and Alameda Research (FTX). These bankruptcies resulted in tens of billions of dollars in investor losses and highlighted the risks of extreme interconnectedness and a lack of regulatory safeguards in the crypto lending space. No body know how solvent Nexo is as a crypto lender. They could be 100% legit and 100% solvent. But if they are not 100% solvent (like Celsius, Voyager, Blockfi, Genesis), without a Mica license, all who use Nexo in the EU will need to leave and taking their crypto with them. That will be a stress test for them. submitted by /u/punishGoalhanging [link] [Kommentare]

> "The mainstream consensus on gold in 2026 has organized itself around a single, load-bearing thesis: central banks are buying at the fastest pace since the 1950s, this buying is structural and price-insensitive, and it constitutes a permanent floor under the gold price." submitted by /u/NoidoDev [link] [Kommentare]

I really don’t get how people trusted a snake with their savings. It boggles my mind. It’s not like he didn’t have a reputation before and he was just some new guy in the space where maybe you could’ve given him the benefit of the doubt. In 2000, he took part in an accounting scandal for MicroStrategy and got charged for it by the SEC. STRC listed 11 percent returns through dividends for STRC that could pause dividends at any time. I know this isn’t the same but Anchor offered around a 20 percent APY in May 2022 for Luna. We all see how that went down. People were confident and sure that this yield could go on forever. I am not claiming it’ll collapse at this exact moment and won’t pretend to know the timing. However, there are so many signs pointing that this will end catastrophically. They own 4 percent of all Bitcoin in existence. People keep saying “they can just sell their Bitcoin.” If they are over-leveraged, the amount of cash and Bitcoin they have won’t matter. They’ll crash at some point and maybe those of you holding might get a dividend payment but don’t get caught with your pants down. At this point it’s a rite of passage for scammers to be on the cover of Forbes. For example, look at Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes. The signs are there. Those of you invested feel free to call me whatever you want but we’ll see who’s right in the end. Just don’t pretend the signs weren’t there. Best of luck to all of you and I hope you don’t get burned badly. Edit: Those of you invested in MSTR and STRC feel free to talk your shit but I know I’m right and your post will age like milk. Yes I’m petty. submitted by /u/Repturtle [link] [Kommentare]

It seems all crypto going down and up at the same time, same rate and (not 100% accurate but) same percentage, so why does everyone say what they do? Like I hear all the time “XRP trash” and “solana is a glorified meme coin” and etc, just simplified examples. Like at this point does it matter ? It just seems everything follows bitcoin except meme coins submitted by /u/vajinasalad [link] [Kommentare]

Hi everyone! I'm a university student currently working on a UX research assignment focused on the Binance P2P experience. As part of my research, I've been using Binance for a while now and I'm also trying to understand how real users feel about the platform. If you've used Binance P2P (whether occasionally or regularly), I'd really appreciate your thoughts on stuff like: Is there a feature you wish Binance would improve or redesign? What's the most frustrating part of the P2P experience? Is there anything that feels confusing or unintuitive? Have you ever made a mistake because of the interface or workflow? If you could change one thing about the P2P UI, what would it be? Thanks in advance to anyone who shares their feedback. submitted by /u/manavalann [link] [Kommentare]