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The new bill is expected to be presented to the Danish Parliament in early 2025, with the country's Tax Law Council recommending that the rules should not be implemented before January 1, 2026, at the earliest.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor's view that concerns over regulated bitcoin custody were mainly from "paranoid crypto-anarchists."

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) announced it has invested nearly $25 million (€23 million) in 60 global open-source technologies over the past two years. During this time, it received over 500 submissions proposing more than €114 million in work.

A new research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that governments can either tax or ban "fixed supply private-sector bubble assets that are not a claim to any real resources" to ensure the long-term viability of large and permanent budget deficits.

After more than 10 years of service, Dutch bitcoin-only exchange BL3P will be shutting down on December 20th, 2024.

A new paper by ECB economists describes a 'Bitcoin-positive' scenario as one in which the price of Bitcoin continues to rise significantly and sustainably over time.

Italy intends to increase the capital gains tax on Bitcoin from 26% to 42% as part of a strategy to fund costly election commitments while reducing the budget deficit.

"OpenSats is pleased to announce long-term support for Greenart7c3 for his ongoing contributions to the nostr ecosystem," announced the non-profit.

The bitcoin infrastructure company has completed a $210 million convertible note financing round, led by Fulgur Ventures. The funds will be used to fast-track the adoption and development of Blockstream’s layer-2 technologies, expand mining activities, and increase bitcoin treasury holdings.

At the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 conference, Bitcoin miner manufacturer Bitmain announced two new machines: the Antminer S21+ Hyd and the Antminer S21+.

2140 is a new non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, co-founded by Bitcoin developers Josie Baker and Ruben Somsen, dedicated to supporting open-source Bitcoin research and development.

Disclosed vulnerabilities include a blocktxn remote node crash (CVE-2024-35202), an issue with mutated blocks hindering block propagation, and a node communication issue due to inv-to-send sets growing too large.