Laws and regulators decide how Bitcoin can be held, taxed and traded. This topic pairs the policy maps (country positions and US state reserve bills) with the dispatches that cover regulators, courts and legislation.
September 1 is the date the law's core provisions bite, and the first weeks of licensed trading will reveal the custody model: whether MOEX and SPB Exchange hold client assets in pooled wallets, whether withdrawal to self-custodyself-custodyHolding your own bitcoin keys rather than trusting an exchange or custodian. The maxim: not your keys, not your coins. is permitted at all, and what…
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The hub: where Bitcoin's price sits against its own trend and history.
The four-year issuance clock, drawdowns and what holding through them looked like.
The machines securing the chain: how much computing they run, how hard mining is, and what they earn.
The bridge: the electricity behind mining, and the oil, gas and power shocks that tie Bitcoin to macro.
Conflicts, sanctions and state moves that spill into money and energy.
Laws, regulators and strategic-reserve bills, country by country and state by state.
Rates, the dollar, inflation and liquidity: the tide every asset swims in.