Insights
Analysis and commentary on structural resilience, jurisdictional strategy, and cross-border wealth from Steffen Feike.
A domestic trust and a local property portfolio were once adequate for wealth protection. They are no longer. The risks facing globally mobile individuals are multi-jurisdictional, and the structures addressing them must be too.
Read more →Holding Bitcoin securely for a bull run is a solved problem. Holding it securely across years, jurisdictions, and generations is not. The difference is the gap between a hardware wallet and a legal architecture.
Read more →Mainstream economics treats moderate inflation as a near-axiom and deflation as a threat to be avoided at all costs. The empirical foundation for this consensus is weaker than the confidence with which it is stated.
Read more →The SCA's Consultation Paper on Security Tokens and Commodity Token Contracts provides legal clarity and efficiency gains. It also makes clear that the UAE is building a regulated, institutional-first tokenization layer — not a decentralised one.
Read more →FATF's Travel Rule extends bank-style information sharing requirements to virtual asset transfers. The UAE has implemented it with stricter data retention requirements than the international standard. Here is what it means in practice for digital asset holders.
Read more →CARF extends the CRS reporting architecture to crypto-assets, requiring service providers to report transaction data to tax authorities. The question for custody decisions is what this means in practice — and what self-custody does and does not protect against.
Read more →Eugene Fama's critiques of Bitcoin are not without internal logic. They are, however, in tension with his own most significant contribution to economic thought — and they rest on several premises worth examining directly.
Read more →The professional class has had years to engage seriously with Bitcoin. Most have not. The question is no longer whether Bitcoin matters — it is whether the people whose job it is to understand capital can afford to keep ignoring it.
Read more →Tokenization offers genuine advantages over traditional share structures. It will not make them redundant. The more likely outcome is a hybrid model — and the interesting question is where the boundaries settle.
Read more →The kidnapping of Ledger co-founder David Balland illustrates a threat that most crypto security frameworks do not address: physical coercion. The technical security of your Bitcoin is only as strong as your personal security posture.
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