A Bitcoin developer is coming for Satoshi's coins and the EU cuts Russia off from crypto.

Paul Stork, a longtime Bitcoin developer, is proposing a 2026 hard fork to split up the Bitcoin

blockchain. The controversial part is that Satoshi Nakamoto's 1.1 million Bitcoin would show up on the new

chain, and Stork plans to reassign fewer than half of those coins to early investors to fund

development. The community isn't having it. Bitcoin advocate Peter McCormick called it theft

and disrespectful, and developer Josh Ellathorpe warned it sets a dangerous precedent,

saying now it's Satoshi, but it could be anyone later. The EU released its most expansive

Russia sanctions package to date and for the first time, crypto is at the center of it. The

block is imposing a total ban on all crypto providers and decentralized platforms established

in Russia, barring EU citizens from

transacting with them. Russia's digital rubble CBDC and the rubble-pegged RUBX stable coin

are also explicitly banned. And AVE has raised more than $220 million to cover bad debt

from the CalPDAO exploit. The attacker triggered a bank run that pulled $10 billion out of the ABE protocol.

The recovery effect called DEPA United is being led by AVE and Vantle.

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