Individuals in the UAE pay no tax on crypto gains, but the picture changes for businesses, VAT and a new global reporting regime. Here is what the rules actually say in 2026.
A draft proposal would strip durable nonces out of Solana, a feature that lets a signed transaction sit unspent for weeks. Attackers used it to drain at least $270 million from the Drift trading platform in April. Custodians that sign offline would have to rebuild how they move funds.
MSCI will publish on November 11 the companies it is cutting from its global indexes under new rules for non-operating firms. Strategy, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, is among those at risk, and JPMorgan put the possible forced selling near $2.8 billion.
A blockchain oracle feeds outside prices to smart contracts, and that number is often the real target. How price feeds work, why attackers manipulate them, and what the Mango Markets, KiloEx and Ostium cases show.
Binance has replaced CFO Kaiser Ng nine days after a $6.34 billion hack, naming Airwallex's Justin Yek as finance chief. Co-CEO Yi He calls the change a long-planned move, though the timing raises questions the company has not fully answered.
The asset manager run by Matthew Cole added 15,124 bitcoin last month, more than half of what it now holds, and paid for much of it with preferred shares that cost 15% a year. Bitcoin has since fallen below $76,000, leaving the October buys underwater.
Bitcoin's digital signatures could one day be cracked by a powerful quantum computer. None exists yet, and the machines that do are thousands of times too small. Here is what is actually at risk, how far the hardware really is, and the fixes already being written.
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Removing durable nonces would close the door on the kind of pre-signed transaction abuse that cost Drift more than $270 million.
Our read: The draft is real and names a concrete mechanism, but it is unapproved, carries no firm removal date, and does not even cite Drift. The suggested replacements carry their own flaw, where a failed transaction may not cancel the approval behind it.
Removal from MSCI's indexes would force passive funds to dump billions of dollars of Strategy stock, a real threat to the largest corporate bitcoin holder.
Our read: JPMorgan put the possible outflows near $2.8 billion, and MSCI's own May simulation flagged Strategy. But the final list is not out until November 11, the two-consecutive-periods buffer could delay any removal, the estimate comes from a single bank, and MSCI declined to act on the same firms in January.
Binance says the CFO change was planned about six months in advance and has nothing to do with the October hack.
Our read: Binance lined up a named successor, Justin Yek, and co-CEO Yi He framed the move as a planned transition. But the company gave no effective date, no document showing the plan predated the breach, and the exit lands nine days after the largest crypto theft on record. Several outlets read it as hack fallout, which Binance rejects.
Strive's rapid bitcoin buying has made it one of the world's largest corporate holders and delivered a $509 million quarterly profit.
Our read: The holdings and the profit are confirmed in SEC filings, but the profit is an unrealized gain booked when bitcoin was higher, the stock has fallen more than 31% in a month, and the October purchases were all made above the current price.
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Bitcoin's digital signatures could one day be cracked by a powerful quantum computer. None exists yet, and the machines that do are thousands of times too small. Here is what is actually at risk, how far the hardware really is, and the fixes already being written.
These companies exist to own bitcoin. They raise cash from shareholders and lenders, buy coins, and report how many they hold per share. Strategy started the model and holds the most by far. It prints value when the share price runs ahead of the bitcoin, and bleeds when it does not.
Searches for a Bitcoin wipeout spike whenever the price drops. A fall to exactly zero would need a worldwide failure that has not happened since 2009, yet Bitcoin has still lost most of its value more than once. This guide separates a crash from a true zero.
Binance has replaced CFO Kaiser Ng nine days after a $6.34 billion hack, naming Airwallex's Justin Yek as finance chief. Co-CEO Yi He calls the change a long-planned move, though the timing raises questions the company has not fully answered.
The asset manager run by Matthew Cole added 15,124 bitcoin last month, more than half of what it now holds, and paid for much of it with preferred shares that cost 15% a year. Bitcoin has since fallen below $76,000, leaving the October buys underwater.
Binance has told customers in France, Spain, Italy and Poland that it will start charging a monthly fee on November 29 and close their accounts on December 31, after missing the EU's MiCA licensing deadline. Withdrawals stay open until then.
A draft proposal would strip durable nonces out of Solana, a feature that lets a signed transaction sit unspent for weeks. Attackers used it to drain at least $270 million from the Drift trading platform in April. Custodians that sign offline would have to rebuild how they move funds.
A blockchain oracle feeds outside prices to smart contracts, and that number is often the real target. How price feeds work, why attackers manipulate them, and what the Mango Markets, KiloEx and Ostium cases show.
Zcash turned on its NU7 upgrade at block 3,543,405, cutting block times to 25 seconds and starting a fee reserve meant to pay for security after 2031. One old privacy pool holding about 12,224 ZEC is now frozen.
MSCI will publish on November 11 the companies it is cutting from its global indexes under new rules for non-operating firms. Strategy, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, is among those at risk, and JPMorgan put the possible forced selling near $2.8 billion.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion in the week to November 6, 2026, almost all of it from BlackRock's IBIT. The headline looks like a wall of institutional selling. The detail is narrower, and it tracked a falling price more than it drove one.
Bitcoin dropped below $76,000 as a sharp selloff in AI and tech stocks spread to crypto, triggering $1.26 billion in liquidations and a fifth straight day of US spot ETF outflows.