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🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron's confidence rating falls to 13% in November, a historic low for a president of the Republic, according to the Elabe barometer for Les Echos. It is down 4 points in a month and 11 points since August.

💬 Robert Kiyosaki, author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” says he bought more gold, silver, and Bitcoin during their downturn, when other investors were panicking, and says he is looking forward to the next crash in these assets.

💰 Strategy may have raised enough to buy approximately 279 BTC through the resumption of sales of STRC preferred shares, which returned to their $100 par value yesterday. That represents more than half of the bitcoins mined each day.

🔴 At 17, he claims to have hacked 12 million ANTS accounts and amassed €150,000 in crypto.
The construction apprentice also claims to have hacked more than 2 million SFR customer records, in addition to those of the National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS), including postal addresses, emails, and civil status details.
He resold this data on the dark web, sometimes earning the equivalent of up to €7,000 in a single day.
Today, he calls it “a teenage mistake,” even though this kind of leak fuels phishing scams as well as assaults, kidnappings, and abductions targeting cryptocurrency holders.

🇺🇸 “What’s the point of always having a Nasdaq if I can do the same thing tomorrow on Hyperliquid?”
We spoke with Hubert de Vauplane, a partner at Morgan Lewis, about the lawsuit filed by Citadel Securities and Cboe.
They are challenging the CFTC, the U.S. derivatives market regulator, in court over its recent authorization of perpetual stock contracts.
These “perps,” born in crypto, let traders bet with leverage on a stock’s rise or fall without owning it, and could divert some trading volumes from exchanges to platforms like Hyperliquid.
Wall Street is nevertheless divided. ICE, the owner

🇫🇷 Would you lock up your savings for 10 years at a promised rate of 3.5% so the state can borrow more cheaply?
Presented by LIOT deputies as a “major national loan,” the “Livret D” promises 3.5% tax-free interest, with deposits of €1,000 to €60,000 locked up for 10 years, while the state’s 10-year borrowing rate topped 5% on October 21.
The amendment had been approved on October 30… and it was defeated last night. The National Assembly rejected the revenue section of the 2027 budget by 458 votes to 0. The Senate is going back to the government’s draft, without this loan.
It will return only

🇫🇷 MP Nicolas Sansu (GDR) estimates that taxing crypto-to-stablecoin conversions would bring the state €1.5 billion. He criticizes the government for not including this revenue in the 2027 budget, thereby disputing any deterioration in the deficit.

🔴 Taxing stablecoin conversions, requiring disclosure of wallets holding €100,000: all removed from the budget, for now.
By rejecting the first part of the 2027 budget last night, lawmakers brought down the entire bill, which returns to the Senate in the government’s original version.
Along with it go the taxation of certain crypto-to-stablecoin conversions, the requirement to declare self-hosted wallets (managed personally, outside a platform) holding at least €100,000 to the tax authorities, and the increase in the financial transactions tax.
The Senate will examine the budget starting Nove