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Story: Strategy Eyes Bitcoin Exit as Selig Vows to Fight Enforcement-First Crypto Rules

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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Strategy's Bitcoin Treasury Under Pressure. Saylor built Strategy's identity around holding Bitcoin.

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Mike Selig Takes Aim at Enforcement-Driven Regulation. On the regulatory front, Mike Selig has made his position clear.

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BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF and XRP's Eight-Month Low. BlackRock is getting closer to regulatory approval for a Bitcoin income ETF.

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Michael Saylor's company, Strategy, is weighing a sale of its Bitcoin holdings. Not a done deal. But the possibility is on the table, and that's enough to get people talking.

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The consideration comes during a stretch of real turbulence across the crypto space — regulatory pressure building from multiple directions, sentiment cracking in parts of the…

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Saylor built Strategy's identity around holding Bitcoin. That's been the whole brand for years — accumulate, hold, don't flinch.

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Companies that built treasuries around Bitcoin did so partly betting that the rules would eventually settle in their favor. That bet isn't off — but it's getting more complicated.

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On the regulatory front, Mike Selig has made his position clear. He's committed to challenging what he calls "regulation by enforcement" — the approach where regulators skip…

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His stance isn't fringe. A growing number of voices inside and outside the industry have pushed back on enforcement-first regulation, arguing it creates legal uncertainty without…

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Crypto regulation probably needs to shift at some point. The current patchwork of enforcement actions and agency turf wars can't hold forever.

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Related: XRP Leads Crypto ETF Inflows for Fifth Straight Week, Beating Bitcoin and Ethereum

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But not everything is moving in the same direction. XRP sentiment has dropped to its lowest point in eight months.

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And then there's Tim Draper. The veteran investor has raised concerns about quantum computing risks — specifically the threat that advances in quantum processing could eventually…

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Draper's concern is the kind of thing that sounds distant until it doesn't. The industry has time to adapt — but probably not unlimited time.

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See also: XRP ETFs Beat Bitcoin and Ethereum in Inflows for Fifth Straight Week

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