Law and Ledger is a news segment focusing on crypto legal news, brought to you by Kelman Law – A law firm focused on digital asset commerce. The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. This week brought significant developments concerning prediction markets, offshore exchanges, digital-asset taxation and international crypto fraud.
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The central bank is surveying 31 financial institutions on how a major exchange shutdown, prolonged crypto downturn or losses at another firm could affect their operations.
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Btcpay Server issued an emergency shutdown warning Nov. 1, 2026, after reports that attackers were draining bitcoin from hot wallets connected to self-hosted payment servers. Founder Nicolas Dorier linked the reported compromises to versio…
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Reports indicate that after the October 30 deadline, out of the 150-200 companies expected, only 40 applied for operating licenses. The licensing process has consolidated the VASP industry, with many companies exiting Brazil as compliance …
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Operators were told to run ./btcpay-down.sh while the project investigates. The alert did not identify affected versions or announce a patch.