Google Multi-Party Compute: What MPC Custody Means for Banks Google is not launching a crypto wallet for you and me. It is building something more consequential for the plumbing of finance: a service that lets banks hold and move cryptocurrency and tokenised assets without any single machine ever holding a complete private key. The product…
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Standard Chartered Crypto Trading in the UAE: Binance Rival? In mid-October 2026, Standard Chartered opened spot Bitcoin and Ether trading to wealth clients in the UAE, with approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Eligible clients can now buy and sell both assets straight from their existing bank accounts, with no separate wallet and…
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Bitcoin Cold Wallet Myths: 7 Beliefs That Cost Real Money 1. Introduction: Why Bitcoin Cold Wallet Myths Cost Money Now Bitcoin trades near $64,559, roughly 49% below its October 2025 high, and the on-chain pattern in a drawdown is familiar: coins leave exchanges and move into cold storage. That behaviour is sensible. What follows it…
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Coldcard Hack Explained: The Seed Flaw and Self-Custody 1. Introduction: A Wallet Failure, Not a Bitcoin Failure The Coldcard hack is the largest self-custody loss event Bitcoin has seen. Beginning on 30 July 2026, attackers swept coins out of thousands of addresses whose owners had done what the industry told them to do: buy a…
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