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Welcome to Issue #351 of Bitcoin Breakdown, where it’s OPSEC Wednesday special, followed by the latest Quick Bits snippets.

But first, today’s Top Stories:

• 🏛️ Treasury Gets 90 Days Deadline to Blueprint Bitcoin Reserve Strategy

• 🇧🇾 Belarus Banks Ordered to Stack Digital Assets for Sanctions Evasion

• 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Plans For National Bitcoin Reserve by 2026

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

🏛️ Treasury Gets 90 Days Deadline to Blueprint Bitcoin Reserve Strategy

Congress just handed Treasury a 90-day deadline to map out America's first federal Bitcoin reserve through bill HR 1566. The report must detail custody partners, cybersecurity protections, legal frameworks, and how digital assets would appear on government balance sheets. This urgent timeline follows Trump's executive order interest and Senator Lummis's stalled BITCOIN Act, as lawmakers demand clarity on operational safeguards before America officially starts stacking sats. CryptoSlate

🇧🇾 Belarus Banks Ordered to Stack Digital Assets for Sanctions Evasion

President Lukashenko is pushing Belarusian banks to embrace Bitcoin and crypto to dodge international sanctions, with external digital asset payments hitting $1.7B in 7 months and projected to reach $3B by year-end. Despite past regulatory flip-flopping, Belarus is doubling down on digital assets and Bitcoin mining to diversify revenue streams. The country expects over 855,000 crypto users by 2026, representing nearly 10% of its population. Atlas21

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Plans For National Bitcoin Reserve by 2026

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ordered creation of a State Digital Asset Fund to hold strategic Bitcoin and crypto reserves, with digital asset legislation due by 2026. . The country already hosts 13% of global Bitcoin mining hashrate and launched Central Asia's first Bitcoin ETF, and plans a fully digital CryptoCity in Alatau where residents can use digital assets for daily payments. Kazakhstan aims to become the region's digital finance leader. BeInCrypto

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OPSEC FEATURE ARTICLE

7 Field-Tested Steps To Lock Down Toxic AI Flows & Keep Your Bitcoin Safe

Agentic AI creates real utility, but it also opens quiet pathways for data theft and fund loss. 

Toxic flows sit in those pathways where tools, data, and external connections intersect.

This week’s OPSEC featured article empowers you to still ship value while avoiding the traps.

The steps include a Bitcoin treasury example and the result is a practical playbook that reduces risk without neutering your agents.

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QUICK BITS

• Bitchat download surges in Indonesia and Nepal amid youth-led protests, corruption outrage, and a social media ban, underscoring freedom tech's role.

• UNREDACTED Magazine by Michael Bazzel releases issue 008, the first one since September 2024, focusing purely on OSINT, privacy, and security information for offline reference.

• BlackRock prepares to list its iShares Bitcoin ETP on London Stock Exchange ahead of October 8 deadline.

• Bitcoin Core developers falsely accuse Knots operators of inflating node statistics through sybil attacks, claiming 39% were fake before retracting allegations after Start9 explained legitimate nodes.

• Bitcoin Mechanic, a Bitcoin Knots proponent, warns that Bitcoin Core v30's proposed increase of OP_RETURN datacarrier limits to 100,000 bytes could trigger catastrophic node shutdowns across exchanges and mining pools through malware detection systems.

• Cantor Fitzgerald debuts its gold-protected Bitcoin Fund, targeting investors who want Bitcoin exposure but are scared of volatility.

• Tether accumulated 27,700 BTC over the past year, beating most spot ETFs in Bitcoin inflows.

• Senate Banking Committee's new market structure bill retroactively amends federal money transmission laws to protect non-custodial software developers from criminal liability.

• DOJ files civil forfeiture complaint targeting $5M in bitcoin allegedly stolen through SIM swap attacks across multiple US victims, with funds traced to online casino wallets.

• Nasdaq, the US stock exchange giant, invests $50M in Gemini's $317M IPO to access the Winklevoss-founded crypto exchange's custody and staking services through strategic partnership.

• Athena Bitcoin faces a lawsuit from Washington attorney general over undisclosed 26 percent fees and failure to prevent scam-linked Bitcoin ATM losses.

• Metaplanet raises $1.4B through international share offering to purchase more bitcoin and expand its Bitcoin income business.

• EasyGroup founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou launches easyBitcoin, a trading platform, in partnership with exchange Uphold.

• Cboe Global Markets, a leading derivatives and securities exchange network, announces bitcoin continuous futures launching November 10, 2025, bringing perpetual-style trading to US-regulated markets.

• Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive merges with Asset Entities, a social media marketing firm, to create a $1.5B Bitcoin treasury company.

• Strategy acquires 1,955 BTC for $217.4M despite S&P 500 exclusion, bringing its total corporate Bitcoin holdings to 638,460 BTC.

• KindlyMD subsidiary Nakamoto commits $30M to Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet, marking the firm’s largest investment to date.

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