Copy of Introduction to Crypto Safety

United States: Theft losses on personal property stay non-deductible after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the restriction permanent, but scam and hack victims who acquired crypto to make a profit can still claim a theft loss under section 165(c)(2), as IRS Chief Counsel Advice 202511015 confirmed in 2025. United Kingdom: HMRC does not […]...

A gasless transaction still pays the network. Gasless only means the person signing the transaction does not pay the fee in the chain’s native coin, because an app, a relayer, a foundation, a trading counterparty or the protocol itself covers it. There are five main payment models: an app sponsors the fee, the user repays […]...

Cloud mining lets you rent Bitcoin hashrate from a data centre, but your return depends on the gap between what that hashrate earns and the daily fee the provider charges. On 31 October 2026, one terahash per second (TH/s) earned about $0.033 a day, with bitcoin near $77,500 and network difficulty at 148.36 trillion. At […]...