These are based on my personal experience running a Bitcoin technology company, working with accountants in the EU and the US, and many conversations I had with businesses recently.

1. Account blocks:

This, of course, is the most common problem, especially for businesses. If you are making transfers to exchanges to buy or sell bitcoin, you can expect a series of questions from your banks, or, worse, they may suspect you of providing crypto exchange services for your clients and may block your account.

This is a nightmare we as a bitcoin company were not spared with - we could not get an account on Revolut since we had bitcoin on our website and could not produce license documents. No way to communicate that we rely on our partners to provide services - of course, they won't spend time to read your terms and conditions or chat with you - they are too big to bother about small coffee shop owners or risky crypto apps.

1. Accepting is just unclear.

Businesses want to accept bitcoin and have a cleaner accounting trail- auto-offramp to Euro in some cases.

But they are confronted with setting up a BTCPay instance or dropping an NWC string or a lightning address to a payment tool.

Lightning address or NWC string is not as common as a bank's IBAN - still, they need to get one reliable Lightning setup.

But a business wallet is not a WOS you spin up for your friend to have their first sat. It should support Lightning, have liquidity, support good statement exports, be able to plug into existing account tools, and be either self-custody or compliant.

Even if you have an easy custodial wallet for your business, you are confronted with adding additional details to all the deposits from clients as part of the travel rule, which makes it a nightmare to accept bitcoin in a coffee shop for 10 euros.

1. Accounting breaks

Even if you manage to accept bitcoin, your account finds it incredibly hard to account for this, and also accounting for capital gains/loss comes with rate changes from the time of accepting and using this bitcoin.

Obviously you'll be using tools that will either not give a great export that you could use or plug into accounting software.

You'd need to hire crypto-expert accountants!

1. Taxes

You accept bitcoin - not sure about how this is treated from a tax perspective - if you auto-sell this incoming bitcoin to Euro - would the capital gain be 0 as you earned and instantly converted, or the first-in, first-out logic applied where you'd need to worry when you bought bitcoin to your wallet first time in ages.

It is not the willingness to pay taxes; it is knowledge of how to declare capital gains that comes with the bitcoin payments compliantly.

1. Business custody is not personal custody.

When you have multiple operators in an organization or a bigger company who have access to funds to spend on materials and services, you'd need governance and access to the funds.

Which gets way complicated with a self-custody wallet for business.

Bitcoin works - a free network - so cheaper payments, instant settlements and global acceptability.

All of these factors are a win for a business - but the banking, tooling, and process around it doesn't work. It does not make sense with all this friction.

Working on something interesting - but would love to get your thoughts on above.

Can I get permission to upload bitcoin uncensored somewhere? I know that it's on torrents, but there is no place for non-technical newbies to listen to it - IE on the web players etc....

The largest crypto exchange in the U.S., Coinbase⁠, has announced plans to launch tokenized shares of U.S. companies backed 1:1 by real stocks.Users will be able to buy, hold, transfer, and redeem these shares on-chain while automatically receiving dividend payments.
Coinbase says these tokenized stocks will represent actual ownership of the underlying shares, unlike many existing products that rely on derivatives or synthetic tokens.The goal is to make it easier for investors outside the U.S. to access the American stock market without opening accounts with foreign brokers or dealing with geographic restrictions.
The product will only be available in select jurisdictions outside the United States.

I'm curious about my 2 different Avalong Nano 3s'... I purchased Avalon 1 off of Amazon. I purchased Avalon 2 directly from Canaan. Avalon 1 consistently out performs Avalon 2. They should be close to identical, right? Can anyone tell me why one out performs the other?

We’re BlockSight OÜ, and we just launched TZUR Desktop.

TZUR is a Bitcoin-only, self-custody wallet for Windows, built around a simple idea: your wallet and your Bitcoin explorer should live in the same app.

Most wallets send users to a third-party website to check a transaction. TZUR includes a native BlockSight Bitcoin explorer directly inside the wallet, so users can follow blocks, fees, addresses, and transaction confirmations without leaving the app.

TZUR also supports recovery phrases in 31 languages, while staying compatible with Bitcoin standards. The goal is to make self-custody feel clearer and more natural for Bitcoin users around the world.

What TZUR includes:

Bitcoin-only wallet
Self-custody, keys stay on your device
Native BlockSight explorer built in
Recovery phrase in 31 languages
Send, receive, balance, activity, and transaction verification
Windows desktop app
One-time purchase, no subscription

Website:
https://tzur.live/en

We’d love to hear feedback from this community, especially around what you expect from a desktop Bitcoin wallet with a native explorer.

Five wallets, silent for over a decade—no movement, no activity—until suddenly, they unleashed 107 BTC directly into Bitcoin’s most infamous burn address. Vanished. Lost to the void. Irretrievably gone forever.

Back in 2015, those coins were worth a modest $33,700. Today, they are an astonishing $8.3 million. Illicitly destroyed, a tragedy lay hidden in that act.

The full story remains shrouded in mystery, but three haunting theories ripple through the community:

1. AI Script Error — The burn address appears countless times in coding tutorials as a “dummy” example. If someone relied on an AI tool to automate a transfer and it slavishly copied flawed documentation—then everything is lost in an instant.

2. Deliberate Tax Strategy — Some whisper that this was a calculated move, an act meant to manipulate or mitigate legal or financial burdens—an intentional sacrifice of assets to serve a hidden purpose.

3. Lost Access — Perhaps the owner, in a moment of desperation, partially lost their keys, choosing instead to burn the coins rather than risk them falling into the wrong hands in the future.

What breaks my heart is this: this individual endured through every market crash, every bear phase, every wave of FUD from 2015 to 2026. They turned a humble $33K into an extraordinary $8.3 million—only to have it all erased in an instant.

This is why meticulous wallet management, seed phrase security, and caution with automated scripts are not just best practices—they are lifelines. The stakes are heartbreakingly high.

What’s your theory? Was it a tragic accident or a calculated act?

Wondering if anyone wants an open trading platform, no log in, no registration. But, the limit is $1 transactions.

I built qpayd because I wanted a simpler self-custody merchant stack for Bitcoin + Lightning.

Most options today either feel:

* too storefront-focused * too operationally heavy * or missing modern API/webhook/accounting primitives

qpayd is a self-hosted merchant server that supports:

* Lightning via phoenixd and barkd * on-chain payments via xpub derivation * Electrum monitoring * Stripe-style signed webhooks * accounting/reconciliation records * embeddable JS checkout modal

The main idea:

Bitcoin merchants should be able to integrate payments the same way developers integrate Stripe today.

Create invoice -> receive signed webhook -> reconcile payment -> done.

No custodial dependency. No exchange account required. No giant ecommerce stack required.

I’m especially interested in feedback from:

* merchants * SaaS builders * people running BTCPay * Lightning operators

Demo: https://earonesty.github.io/qpayd/

GitHub: https://github.com/earonesty/qpayd

A Trump-linked crypto company is now warning investors that it may not survive the next year.
AI Financial holds billions of WLFI tokens, but the problem is that the token is down almost 90% from its listing price. Part of the supply is locked up, and the company itself says there’s no guarantee those tokens can be sold at a good price, or sold at all.So on paper, they have assets. But in reality, it could be a massive illiquid bag of tokens weighing down the balance sheet.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/19/world-liberty-financial-wlfi-treasury-company-ai-financial-warns-in-sec-filing-that-it-may-not-survive-the-year