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I remember the first time I watched a Canadian bank executive dodge a question about Bitcoin. It was 2021, at a fintech panel in Toronto, and the room went quiet when someone in the audience asked whether any of the Big Five would ever hold BTC directly. The executive smiled, adj
I remember scrolling through the Texas Comptroller's announcement last November and stopping mid-sentence. Not because the dollar figure was enormous—$5 million is, after all, a rounding error in state budgets—but because of what it signified. For the first time in American histo
Last month, I reviewed a leaked draft of the Treasury Department's March 2026 congressional report on innovative technologies to counter illicit finance. What caught my attention wasn't the standard regulatory language about AML compliance—it was the frank acknowledgment that tra
Joint guidance from the Fed, OCC, and FDIC establishes how banks should treat Bitcoin-backed and crypto-asset securities on their balance sheets. In a move that brings regulatory clarity to one of the most contentious areas of digital asset banking, the Federal Reserve, Office of
Governor Cook's May 2026 speech reveals the Fed's evolving stance on tokenization and its implications for Bitcoin markets. On May 8, 2026, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook delivered a speech that signaled a significant shift in the central bank's approach to digital assets. Sp
White House Teases Major Bitcoin Reserve Update: What the Administration Is Actually Planning Patrick Witt says a "big announcement" is coming. Here is what we know—and what remains unclear—about the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. In May 2026, Patrick Witt, the executive director of
Treasury's AML Strategy: Bitcoin Compliance Enters a New Era of Surveillance The 2026 National Money Laundering Risk Assessment puts Bitcoin under a microscope Washington has never used before. When the Treasury Department released its 2026 National Money Laundering Risk Assessme
The IRS Bitcoin Tax Crackdown: What Digital Asset Reporting Means for Users Washington's new reporting requirements are about to shine a spotlight on every Bitcoin transaction. The days of treating Bitcoin transactions as invisible to tax authorities are officially ending. When t
Washington is expanding its Bitcoin enforcement playbook beyond market structure to address the human cost of crypto fraud. When the Justice Department announced the Scam Center Strike Force in early 2026, it marked a subtle but important shift in federal crypto enforcement. This
Washington did not just bless another crypto service. It widened the federal banking lane for Bitcoin market plumbing. I still remember when federal crypto guidance felt like a sequence of grudging exceptions, each one drafted with the tone of an institution trying not to touch t
