13th August 2025 Digital Bytes
How Bitcoin can enable EU citizenship: legal loopholes and golden visas - Bitcoin is increasingly enabling wealthy investors to gain EU residency and citizenship by funding “golden visa” programs, although only after converting crypto into fiat and passing strict documentation checks. Whilst no country accepts Bitcoin directly for investment migration, nations such as Portugal, Greece and Austria allow crypto-funded applications through regulated fiat channels. As tax regimes tighten globally, Bitcoin is becoming a tool for legal mobility whereby turning digital wealth into real-world freedom.
Blockchain’s identity crisis: self-sovereign identity vs privacy coins vs surveillance - blockchain technology has been touted as a decentralisation, transparency and user-empowerment revolution. Yet despite this seemingly unifying aim, a fundamental dichotomy exists - i.e. public blockchains' transparency typically conflicts with personal privacy. Blockchains face a complicated “identity crisis” as various visions for digital identification (from self-sovereign identity to privacy coins) compete for supremacy as governments and institutions battle with monitoring and regulation.
Carbon credit tokenisation and futures market (CCTFM) with digital money solutions - a carbon credit tokenisation and futures market (CCTFM) with CBDC settlement offers a transparent, efficient and liquid platform for trading verified carbon credits. This digital innovation aims to accelerate climate finance by streamlining transactions, enhancing market integrity and fostering greater trust. And by leveraging blockchain and central bank digital currencies, it promises to revolutionise how global efforts to reduce emissions are financed and tracked.
Why US stablecoins are fast becoming the global medium of exchange - US dollar stablecoins are rapidly becoming the world’s default medium of exchange, driven by AI’s erosion of labour-based value and US regulatory clarity, such as the GENIUS Act of 2025. Fully backed by US Treasuries, these traceable payment tools move at internet speed, extending US dollar dominance whilst by-passing legacy banking. By banning rival CBDCs and replacing income taxes with trade tariffs, Washington is weaponising private stablecoins to ensure the digital dollar becomes deeply embedded into global commerce and securing control over the rails of the AI-driven economy.