🇯🇵 Crypto Tax Slashed to 20%! Japan Finally Joins the Party 🎉

The Financial Services Agency (FSA), that stalwart guardian of fiscal order, first whispered of this revolution in the chill of mid-November. Now, the ruling coalition, those masters of compromise and delay, have finally bestowed their blessing. A bill, they promise, shall grace the Diet in the nascent days of 2026, a beacon of hope for the crypto faithful. 📜

Bitnomial’s Bold Crypto Bound: First Federal Spot Trading in the US?

These sharp-minded folks rolled up their sleeves and scribed a self-certification declaration for that grand office of oversight, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), under the law that’s known far and wide as regulation 40.6(a). This law gives DCMs the license-mind you, the good kind of license-to hawk spot products, assuming they pay their respects to some special requirements.

Bitcoin’s Meltdown? 🙄

Oh, look. Peter Schiff is feeling very validated right now.Bitcoin decided to take a little nap below $85K, and he’s all over Twitter – sorry, X – explaining how he totally saw this coming. It’s like watching your aunt predict rain. ☔

🚀 XRP’s ETF Waltz: Less Exchange Drama, More Market Flair! 💃

The inimitable Vincent Van Code (yes, the name alone is a masterpiece) reports that XRP has fled the exchanges like a socialite avoiding a scandal. Binance, Upbit, and Kraken are left clutching their pearls as ETF custodial wallets swoop in. Liquidity? She’s left the building, darling. 🏃♀️💨

Cryptocurrency Requests: Outside U.S. Law Enforcement Takes the Lead

Between October 2024 and September 2025, Coinbase received a staggering 12,716 writs-an increase of 19%, as if the request fever spread like wildfire. From the US, Germany, UK, France, Spain, down Under-Australia, mate!-and others, law enforcement’s digital detectives pinged away. In their infinite wisdom, Coinbase notes that the bulk-about 80%-springs from these nations, hinting at a global love affair with legal papers. 📜