French Banking Giant Embraces Bitcoin 🇫🇷, Texas Bank Joins Trump Bitcoin Bloc 🤠, Indiana Proposes Mandatory Bitcoin Pension Option 🏀

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Welcome to Issue #424 of the Bitcoin Breakdown daily newsletter, where we’re rounding up the most talked-about developments in the Bitcoin-only space from the past weekend with our Quick Bits and Quick Media sections.

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Now for today’s Top Stories:

• 🇫🇷 French Banking Giant Brings Bitcoin to 2M Customers

• 🤠 Texas Banking Legend Joins Trump's Pro-Bitcoin Power Bloc

• 🏀 Indiana Proposes First-Ever Mandatory Bitcoin Pension Option

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

🇫🇷 French Banking Giant Brings Bitcoin to 2M Customers

French banking group BPCE is rolling out Bitcoin buying and selling to 2M retail customers through its Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Épargne apps, with plans to expand to 12M users by 2026. Customers can now buy and sell bitcoin via a separate ‘digital asset’ account managed by subsidiary Hexarq, for a €2.99 monthly fee plus 1.5% transaction commission. The move follows similar adoption moves by European heavyweight banks, including BBVA, Santander, and Raiffeisen Bank as competition heats up with crypto-friendly fintechs like Revolut. CoinDesk

🤠 Texas Banking Legend Joins Trump's Pro-Bitcoin Power Bloc

Monet Bank, a Texas lender with under $6B in assets owned by Trump ally billionaire Andy Beal, has rebranded as a Bitcoin and crypto-focused infrastructure bank targeting Bitcoin and stablecoins. The move comes as federal regulators ease crypto rules, with more banks like Thiel-backed Erebor, Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether, and Twenty One Capital joining an emerging Trump-aligned monetary bloc throughout 2025. BeInCrypto

🏀 Indiana Proposes First-Ever Mandatory Bitcoin Pension Option

Indiana's House Bill 1042 could make it the first state to require public retirement plans to offer Bitcoin exchange-traded fund options. Introduced by Representative Kyle Pierce, the bill would apply to teachers' pensions, employee plans, and college savings funds, giving workers choice over their retirement allocations. The proposal also protects Bitcoin mining, payments, and private keys from unreasonable local restrictions. A new task force would explore blockchain adoption statewide. Bitcoin News

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QUICK BITS

• Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy omits Bitcoin despite his campaign promises to become the 'crypto president' and establish a strategic national BTC reserve. 🤡 

• Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive Asset Management challenges MSCI's proposal to exclude companies holding over 50% of assets in bitcoin from major benchmarks.

• On-chain 'liveliness' metric climbs to new highs as dormant coins move at unprecedented scale, with analysts suggesting the bull cycle may continue.

• Whale-driven sell-off dumps $1.39B in BTC within one hour, triggering $346M in liquidations and a rapid $2K price whipsaw as analysts cite engineered liquidity collection on thin weekend order books.

• Casascius coins containing long-dormant 2,000 BTC activate after 13 years, unlocking over $179M in highly sought-after physical Bitcoin collectibles with massive returns.

• Italia’s securities regulator enforces firm December 30 deadline requiring Bitcoin and crypto platforms to secure MiCA authorization or completely exit the Italian market.

• Clear Street, a New York brokerage that underwrote major Bitcoin and crypto treasury deals, plans a $10B-$12B IPO as early as January with Goldman Sachs leading the offering.

• ProCap BTC, the bitcoin treasury company led by Anthony Pompliano, completes its SPAC merger as shares plunge over 50% amid investor concerns about compensation and the struggling performance of similar bitcoin treasury firms.

• South Korea's Financial Services Commission plans to require Bitcoin and crypto exchanges to compensate users for hack losses without proving fault, mirroring bank liability standards following Upbit's $30.1M breach and 20 system failures since 2023.

• Malaysia's state energy company deploys thermal drones and smart sensors to hunt illegal Bitcoin miners who stole $1.1B in electricity since 2020, as authorities debate nationwide mining ban amid grid strain and syndicate operations.

• SEC's Dec 15 privacy roundtable will bring stakeholders together to determine if zero-knowledge proofs can satisfy compliance requirements following the prison sentences of Samourai Wallet developers.

• Do Kwon, the guy behind Terra/Luna, faces a 12-year prison sentence as US prosecutors cite losses exceeding those of Sam Bankman-Fried, Alex Mashinsky, and Karl Sebastian Greenwood combined.

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QUICK MEDIA

• Saifedean Ammous, in an interview with BTC Sessions, argues that US stablecoin promotion will neither save the dollar nor harm Bitcoin, while also dismissing Trump's policies as high-time-preference decisions benefiting his personal wealth rather than genuinely strengthening the dollar long-term (Dec 7 | 10:43 min watch). 

• Mark Moss of Market Disruptors argues that the Fed's December 2025 end of quantitative tightening marks a critical trigger for a major liquidity wave in 2026-2027, positioning asset owners to benefit while savers lose as balance sheet expansion resumes following historical patterns from 2019-2021 (Dec 7 | 25:01 min watch).

• Carla Bitcoin and Walker America, Bitcoin-focused content creators, release 'The Grinches of Tyranny,' a Christmas parody song critiquing central bankers like Jerome Powell and Janet Yellen, censorship, and authoritarianism while promoting free speech and Bitcoin adoption through humor (Dec 8 | 2:57 min watch). 

• Marty Bent of TFTC argues that the DOJ's prosecution of Samourai Wallet developers for building non-custodial privacy tools sets a dangerous precedent threatening financial privacy rights, while major banks like JP Morgan face only fines for enabling money laundering worth billions (Dec 4 | 23:54 min watch). 

• Joe Nakamoto, a Bitcoin content creator, cycles 160km from Lisbon to Caldas da Rainha to document grassroots Bitcoin adoption among Portuguese merchants, demonstrating real-world transactions and community engagement in Central Portugal (Dec 6 | 21:5 min watch). 

• Adam Livingston, author of 'The Great Harvest', argues that Bitcoin's fixed supply fundamentally disrupts the global fiat monetary system by forcing accountability on individuals, corporations, and governments who can no longer hide consequences through currency expansion, creating a war between scarcity-based incentives and legacy institutions dependent on monetary dilution (Dec 6 | 25:39 min watch).

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