Dennis Weidner
Dennis Weidner is managing director of Cryptoticker.io GmbH in Berlin and runs the editorial operation behind CryptoTicker, published since 2017 in German, English, French and Spanish. A founder and investor, he has worked with digital business models for more than twenty years. His writing focuses on the point where regulation meets what investors actually do: MiCA authorisation of trading venues, taxation and DAC8, self-custody and staking. He works from verifiable primary sources rather than price speculation — supervisory registers, vendor post-mortems, original specifications. His articles are analysis, not investment advice.
Expertise
Crypto Taxes, Bitcoin, Staking, Regulation, NFTs, DeFi
Total Articles730
October 4, 2026 4:27 AM
VANRY on Kraken: withdrawals stay blocked until five minutes past the deadline — what you can do now
Kraken has blocked VANRY withdrawals until December 10, 2026, 15:05 UTC, five minutes after its own withdrawal deadline. Selling is ruled out, withdrawing is blocked, and forced liquidation follows in December.
October 4, 2026 4:15 AM
SEC clears six 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether ETPs: how to check the daily math
The SEC approved the listing of six triple-leveraged exchange-traded products on October 2, 2026, among them the first ones on bitcoin and ether. Nothing trades yet, and for German accounts a separate hurdle applies.
October 4, 2026 1:42 AM
Five crypto apps for beginners: costs and custody compared
Fee-free rarely means free of charge with crypto apps: between 0.15 and 2.49 percent per purchase lies a factor of ten. What five apps cost German beginners, who holds the coins and which app permits a transfer to your own wallet.
October 4, 2026 1:33 AM
Building a crypto portfolio: the four largest coins move in step at 0.82 to 0.90
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP moved almost in parallel over twelve months, with drawdowns of 52 to 73 percent from their peaks. What that means for weighting a portfolio.
October 4, 2026 1:13 AM
EGLD withdrawals frozen, Upbit decides from October 19: What is going on with MultiversX?
The MultiversX chain is running again, but not every exchange is: EGLD transfers are frozen at Bitvavo and on Binance's native network, while Kraken has been open since October 1. Upbit decides between October 19 and October 23 whether trading continues.
October 3, 2026 10:51 PM
Shiba Inu price prediction: “Yours truly”, the developer answers when asked who pays for Shibarium
On October 2 a Shiba Inu developer answered in two words who pays for running Shibarium: he does. What that means for the Shiba Inu price prediction is shown by a calculation from the burn rate, the circulating supply and the network data.
October 3, 2026 10:37 PM
Dogecoin price at $0.0931: weaker over the week than Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana
Dogecoin is trading at $0.0931 and around 0.0827 euros on Saturday evening, the weakest of the six large coins over the week. This article shows where the levels lie on the downside and the upside, and what investors in Germany should settle now on the route in, custody and the holding period.
October 3, 2026 10:20 PM
2027 start for the UK stablecoin regime: what the Bank of England mandate means
The Bank of England's new innovation objective is a signal for digital payments, not a stablecoin licence. What still decides the outcome are the FCA rules, supervision and the timetable running to 2027.
October 3, 2026 7:15 PM
Shiba Inu today: one ETP in Europe, 18 names on a US fund list, and what matters now in Germany
Shiba Inu has reached three regulated venues since this summer: a certificate in Sweden, a fund list on NYSE Arca and a Japanese approval. For a German brokerage account that means less than the headlines suggest, and precisely that gap is today's real story.
October 3, 2026 4:40 PM
Investing in Bitcoin With a Savings Plan or a Lump Sum: What the December 31 Tax Cut-Off Changes
Anyone putting money into Bitcoin now chooses between a lump sum, a monthly instalment and an ETN in a securities account. The German finance ministry’s draft bill would keep the one-year holding period only for holdings bought by December 31, 2026.
October 3, 2026 4:28 PM
Sweatcoin Token SWEAT: Bitvavo Closes Trading on October 7, and What Matters Now
The Sweat Foundation is ending Sweat Wallet and the SWEAT token in their current form on December 30, 2026. At Bitvavo, one of the two remaining euro markets, trading and withdrawals close as early as October 7, and whatever is left in the account after that is converted into euros automatically by October 15.
October 3, 2026 1:41 PM
Dogecoin Price Prediction: $0.10 as the Ceiling, and What to Watch at a 2.5 Percent ETP Fee
Dogecoin trades at $0.0927 on October 3 and therefore sits on its 200-day average. More important than the mark at $0.10 is the route question for German investors: a 2.50 percent fee in the Xetra ETP against the one-year holding period on a direct purchase.