Bitget picks Georgia for the next step of its expansion in Eastern Europe, attracted by clear regulations, tax benefits and a growing crypto user base. Bitget has received regulatory approval from Georgia to operate as a digital asset exchange and custodial wallet provider within the Tbilisi Free Zone (TFZ). In a Thursday announcement, the company said its users in Georgia can now access Bitget’s full range of services, including spot trading, futures and copy trading, all within a fully compliant, locally regulated environment. Bitget has been expanding in Europe since the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) began taking effect in 2024. Read more
RBF lets you resend unconfirmed transactions with higher fees, but it requires a clear understanding of fee units, wallet behavior and transaction structure. A misunderstanding of fee units led to an accidental overpayment worth more than $60,000 during a replace-by-fee transaction. The user confused sat/vB (fee per byte) with total satoshis, leading to an extreme overpayment. RBF replaces a transaction with a higher-fee version, while CPFP adds a new transaction to boost the original; each has different use cases and risks. Read more
The volume of construction works in Romania fell slightly by 0.5% in unadjusted data and by 2.8% when adjusted for the number of working days and seasonality, in April 2025 compared to April 2024, data from Romania’s statistical office INS showed on Thursday (June 19).
Australia now taxes crypto as property, with capital gains on swaps, DeFi and wrapped tokens, plus new ATO data sweeps targeting 1.2 million users. Australia is one of the world’s most crypto-aware nations, with over 31% of citizens owning digital assets and nearly 1,800 crypto ATMs across the country. Crypto is currently taxed as property in Australia, triggering capital gains tax (CGT) on disposal and income tax on mining, staking or payments. A May 2025 court ruling may challenge the status quo, suggesting that Bitcoin could be classified as “Australian currency,” potentially exempting it from CGT. Read more