The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin

77 Bitcoin kidnappings logged in France since January — and Canada isn't immune. A Toronto CEO was ransomed for $1M. Saylor sells $216M in Bitcoin. Carney admits climate defeat. CUSMA gets rejected. This week on the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast: French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirms 77 kidnappings and extortions targeting Bitcoin holders since January 2026 — already past all of 2025....

77 Bitcoin kidnappings logged in France since January — and Canada isn't immune. A Toronto CEO was ransomed for $1M. Saylor sells $216M in Bitcoin. Carney admits climate defeat. CUSMA gets rejected. This week on the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast: French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirms 77 kidnappings and extortions targeting Bitcoin holders since January 2026 — already past all of 2025....

Bitcoin just crashed below $60,000 to a 20-month low - the worst first half on record - with the Fear & Greed Index at 18 (Extreme Fear). Is the bull market over, or is this the bottom smart money is buying? Plus: a deepfake of PM Carney drains a senior's $900K, Strategy's leverage cracks, and Bull Bitcoin beats MiCA. This is the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast. Bitcoin closed a brutal fir...

Bitcoin just crashed below $60,000 to a 20-month low - the worst first half on record - with the Fear & Greed Index at 18 (Extreme Fear). Is the bull market over, or is this the bottom smart money is buying? Plus: a deepfake of PM Carney drains a senior's $900K, Strategy's leverage cracks, and Bull Bitcoin beats MiCA. This is the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast. Bitcoin closed a brutal fir...

Illinois just signed the most punitive digital asset tax in US history — a 0.2% fee on every Bitcoin transfer, purchase, and receipt. Effective January 1, 2027. No exemption for transfers to your own wallet. And out-of-state brokers serving Illinois residents are captured too. This week on Canadian Bitcoiners, we break down exactly what the Illinois Digital Asset Tax Act does, who it hits, and why...

Illinois just signed the most punitive digital asset tax in US history — a 0.2% fee on every Bitcoin transfer, purchase, and receipt. Effective January 1, 2027. No exemption for transfers to your own wallet. And out-of-state brokers serving Illinois residents are captured too. This week on Canadian Bitcoiners, we break down exactly what the Illinois Digital Asset Tax Act does, who it hits, and why...

Trump family made $2.3 BILLION in crypto profits while everyday investors lost nearly the SAME amount — Reuters EXPOSED the $TRUMP coin, World Liberty Financial & American Bitcoin playbook. Plus Bitcoin's worst week since FTX, Canada's $100M to Palestine & more. A bombshell Reuters investigation found the Trump family pocketed at least $2.3B across four crypto ventures — World Libe...

Trump family made $2.3 BILLION in crypto profits while everyday investors lost nearly the SAME amount — Reuters EXPOSED the $TRUMP coin, World Liberty Financial & American Bitcoin playbook. Plus Bitcoin's worst week since FTX, Canada's $100M to Palestine & more. A bombshell Reuters investigation found the Trump family pocketed at least $2.3B across four crypto ventures — World Libe...

Robinhood walked into Canada the same week Bitget walked out — and that's not even the strangest thing that happened to Canadian Bitcoiners this week. This week on the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast we break down the Canada crypto exchange shake-up, an undetectable counterfeit bug in a major privacy coin, a hardware-wallet chip vulnerability, Ottawa's plan to take equity stakes in Canadian co...

Robinhood walked into Canada the same week Bitget walked out — and that's not even the strangest thing that happened to Canadian Bitcoiners this week. This week on the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast we break down the Canada crypto exchange shake-up, an undetectable counterfeit bug in a major privacy coin, a hardware-wallet chip vulnerability, Ottawa's plan to take equity stakes in Canadian co...

Michael Saylor just broke the one rule he built his empire on. Strategy (MSTR) sold Bitcoin for the first time since 2022 — 32 BTC, ~$2.5M — and the "never sell" era is officially over. He's calling it "inoculating the market." Genius move… or the first crack in the $61B Bitcoin machine? Full breakdown below 👇PLUS Three anonymous parties just asked a New York court to hand...

Michael Saylor just broke the one rule he built his empire on. Strategy (MSTR) sold Bitcoin for the first time since 2022 — 32 BTC, ~$2.5M — and the "never sell" era is officially over. He's calling it "inoculating the market." Genius move… or the first crack in the $61B Bitcoin machine? Full breakdown below 👇PLUS Three anonymous parties just asked a New York court to hand...

$970M. ~12,000 Bitcoin. The Prime Trust estate is trying to CLAW BACK coins that already LEFT Swan Bitcoin — and Strike, Galaxy & Fold are next. 2026's lesson: NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS. Why Canadians must self-custody NOW.On this week's Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, Joey and Len break down the biggest custody story in years: a bankruptcy court reaching back through the exit door to...

$970M. ~12,000 Bitcoin. The Prime Trust estate is trying to CLAW BACK coins that already LEFT Swan Bitcoin — and Strike, Galaxy & Fold are next. 2026's lesson: NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS. Why Canadians must self-custody NOW.On this week's Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, Joey and Len break down the biggest custody story in years: a bankruptcy court reaching back through the exit door to...

Iran just launched Hormuz Safe — a Bitcoin-settled maritime insurance platform routing $10B in Strait of Hormuz shipping AROUND SWIFT. Bitcoin is now a geopolitical settlement layer. Canada take note. Iran's Ministry of Economy quietly switched on "Hormuz Safe" on May 16 — a state-backed platform that lets shipping companies buy insurance for transit through the Strait of Hormuz and...

Iran just launched Hormuz Safe — a Bitcoin-settled maritime insurance platform routing $10B in Strait of Hormuz shipping AROUND SWIFT. Bitcoin is now a geopolitical settlement layer. Canada take note. Iran's Ministry of Economy quietly switched on "Hormuz Safe" on May 16 — a state-backed platform that lets shipping companies buy insurance for transit through the Strait of Hormuz and...

Saylor just broke Strategy's "NEVER SELL" Bitcoin rule. The $1.5B dividend math, the 11.5% yield, the Q1 -$12.5B net loss, and what it means for Canadian MSTR holders — explained. Michael Saylor told investors on Strategy's Q1 2026 earnings call that he will "probably sell some Bitcoin to pay a dividend, just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it."...

Saylor just broke Strategy's "NEVER SELL" Bitcoin rule. The $1.5B dividend math, the 11.5% yield, the Q1 -$12.5B net loss, and what it means for Canadian MSTR holders — explained. Michael Saylor told investors on Strategy's Q1 2026 earnings call that he will "probably sell some Bitcoin to pay a dividend, just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it."...

Canada's $195B Alberta pension fund (AIMCo) just made its first-ever Bitcoin allocation — buying $219 million of Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) the same week Ottawa announced a nationwide ban on Bitcoin ATMs. We break down the AIMCofiling, the Stephen Harper board angle, the political collision course with Carney's federal Liberals, and what this means for every Canadian Bitcoiner. I...

Canada's $195B Alberta pension fund (AIMCo) just made its first-ever Bitcoin allocation — buying $219 million of Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) the same week Ottawa announced a nationwide ban on Bitcoin ATMs. We break down the AIMCofiling, the Stephen Harper board angle, the political collision course with Carney's federal Liberals, and what this means for every Canadian Bitcoiner. I...

The "largest quantum attack on Bitcoin" just collapsed. Project Eleven paid 1 BTC for a 15-bit ECC break — but a classical computer does the same thing. Bitcoin's 256-bit security is untouched. A researcher won the Project Eleven Q-Day Prize for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, billed by the press as the "largest quantum attack on B...

The "largest quantum attack on Bitcoin" just collapsed. Project Eleven paid 1 BTC for a 15-bit ECC break — but a classical computer does the same thing. Bitcoin's 256-bit security is untouched. A researcher won the Project Eleven Q-Day Prize for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, billed by the press as the "largest quantum attack on B...

BIP 361: Bitcoin Core devs want to FREEZE Satoshi's coins — 5.6M BTC (~30%) permanently locked to stop quantum computing attacks. Is it theft or survival? The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast debates. This week Len and Joey break down the most controversial Bitcoin proposal in years: BIP 361, the post-quantum migration plan championed by Hunter Beast that would render an estimated 5.6 million Bitco...

BIP 361: Bitcoin Core devs want to FREEZE Satoshi's coins — 5.6M BTC (~30%) permanently locked to stop quantum computing attacks. Is it theft or survival? The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast debates. This week Len and Joey break down the most controversial Bitcoin proposal in years: BIP 361, the post-quantum migration plan championed by Hunter Beast that would render an estimated 5.6 million Bitco...

Adam Back Satoshi Nakamoto — the New York Times investigation claims to have found Bitcoin's creator. We break down why it's clickbait. Plus: Iran accepts Bitcoin and USDT for Strait of Hormuz oil tanker tolls, Trump's World Liberty Financial meme coin disaster, and Canada's Liberal convention drops an exit tax bombshell. On this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, Joey and...