Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin was born from a simple idea, taking money out of the hands of those who issue it, and nearly everything built around it since has worked to put it back: centralized exchanges, the MiCA framework, automatic reporting of every transaction to the tax authorities, and now the inclusion of crypto assets in a wealth tax on so-called unproductive holdings. This category takes the subject seriously, which requires being as hard on the ecosystem as on the administration: Bitcoin on one side, and on the other most of Web3, its acronyms, its yield promises, and its trading bots that only pay the people selling them. You will find arithmetic rather than conviction, from mining in France, whose economics collapse at residential electricity rates, to fiscal measures advancing behind the scarecrow of kidnappings. Written by someone who ran the numbers before taking a position, and who believes individual monetary sovereignty deserves better than its own salesmen.

Why building a crypto trading not doesn’t pay off

Cryptocurrency

A crypto trading bot seduces the developer because it weds technical mastery to the promise of passive income, and that is precisely what should raise a flag. The decorrelation argument has collapsed: the correlation between Bitcoin and equities now peaks during crashes, exactly when you would want it to vanish. The supposed edge of an amateur bot does not exist against algorithmic firms, and paper trading systematically lies upward by ignoring the slippage and taker fees that devour the alpha on every round trip. Even when justified, a crypto sleeve is sized in a risk budget and falls to 1 to 3 percent of capital, a stake utterly out of proportion to the engineering effort a bot demands. That leaves only the honest question: are we after a technical hobby or a wealth-building tool, since automated DCA and rebalancing by API serve real capital where the bot serves only a fantasy.