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Take Ethereum Profits or Wait Out the Holding Period? What the Price Jump Means for Your Tax Bill
Ether reached its highest level since the end of January on September 11, 2026, and many are asking whether to sell now. In Germany the answer hangs on the purchase date first: we work out which tranches are tax free and which of them are showing a gain at all.
20 days ago
Revoke Token Approvals on Ethereum: A Revocation Now Costs 0.52 Cents
Every decentralized exchange, every lending pool and every bridge asks for a token approval, and it keeps running after the swap is done. We counted 5,910 approvals and worked out what a revocation really costs today.
20 days ago
The Most Profitable Crypto Airdrops of the Week: Week 38
At Kraken the withdrawal window for two tokens credited by airdrop closes on September 25, and a widely shared “current” claim in fact dates from October 2025. Five airdrop dates for week 38, each checked at the source.
20 days ago
Fed Rate Decision of September 16: What It Means for Your Bitcoin Savings Plan
Recap as of September 27, 2026: this article appeared before the US Federal Reserve's rate decision on September 16, 2026, when futures markets mostly expected a hike. It describes what a hike means for your monthly instalment, a running crypto loan and your holding periods.
20 days ago
Foreign Code on Your Ethereum Address: How to Check Your EIP-7702 Delegation
Since the Pectra upgrade, a single signature can be enough for your Ethereum address to run the code of someone else's contract. Our own measurement across 200 blocks shows what these delegations mostly point to today, and how to check your own address in a few minutes.
20 days ago
Reporting Duty for Wallet Makers: What Has Applied Since September 11, 2026
Since September 11, 2026, anyone offering a wallet commercially in the EU must report an actively exploited vulnerability within 24 hours and inform the affected users. What Article 14 of the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires, where the limit of interpretation lies, and what you should take from it for your own custody.
21 days ago
Chainflip Hack on Tron: How to Check Whether Your USDT Swap Is Still Stuck
An attacker drained 736,442 USDT through Chainflip's Tron rail on September 12, 2026, and trading has been at a standstill ever since. On September 13 we measured for ourselves which functions of the protocol are switched off and which are still running.
21 days ago
Zcash Orchard Pool: How to Check Whether Your ZEC Balance Still Needs Migrating
Since the Ironwood upgrade of July 28, 2026, Zcash's old Orchard pool has been sealed, and every shielded balance has to cross into the new pool individually through a turnstile. At the end of August, 470,000 ZEC were still in the old pool. Here is how to check in a few minutes whether your wallet is one of them.
21 days ago
Crypto Reporting Rules: What Your Exchange Reports to the Tax Office, and Why the Total Is Not Your Profit
From the 2026 reporting period onwards, crypto providers transmit aggregated gross amounts per crypto-asset to Germany's Federal Central Tax Office, for the first time by 31 July 2027. The data set holds your trading volume, not your profit; that gap is one you have to close with records of your own.
21 days ago
Bitcoin Transaction Stuck: How to Free It Again With RBF and CPFP
The Bitcoin network's waiting area is full, yet the recommended fee still sits at the minimum. We evaluated 75,903 waiting transactions and 15 blocks to show when you can simply wait and when you have to step in yourself.
21 days ago