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Aldus Amdax
Not even one and a half percent
At the end of June, Dutch households held 3.2 billion euros in crypto with Dutch crypto service providers, Dutch financial daily FD reported based on new figures from De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). Their combined investments are worth 234.2 billion euros. That puts crypto at not even one and a half percent of what Dutch investors own. I see two things in that ratio: crypto has become a full-fledged asset class, and we are only at the beginning.
The Dutch government still cannot get its Box 3 reform over the line, and crypto investors are falling through the cracks. From 2028, financial instruments are only taxed when sold, even if they track bitcoin. Crypto you hold yourself is taxed on paper gains. That is unfair, but no reason to look at crypto differently. When you invest, you first decide where the returns are. Only then does tax come in.
Aldus Amdax
Sailing against the wind
Anyone who followed the news these past few weeks could reach just one conclusion about bitcoin. The American crypto bill stalled in the Senate, the war with Iran flared up again, and oil pushed back well above a hundred dollars. There was no reason at all for optimism. And the price rose anyway. Into the wind. And to understand that the last place to look is the newspaper.
As of today, there's a new way to hold bitcoin at Amdax. Alongside Vault, we're introducing Earn: a portfolio in which you pay no service fee on the assets you place in it.
Amsterdam, September 15, 2026 - Amdax has seen applications for business accounts rise over the past few years. The fiercer the political fight in The Hague over the wealth tax, the greater the interest seems to grow. More and more investors are exploring how to hold bitcoin and other digital assets through a BV (a Dutch private limited company). In those conversations, Box 3 usually comes up within the first five minutes.
Aldus Amdax
Put that bitcoin to work
MSCI wants to remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its global indexes. The industry's response is predictable: bafflement, discrimination, an attack on bitcoin. Almost no one is asking the question that actually matters, which is whether MSCI might have a point. We think it does. And for bitcoin companies, that is the best opening in years to show what they actually do with their digital capital.
Bitcoin holders lost their assets to the very device that was supposed to protect them. A flaw in COLDCARD's firmware made seed phrases predictable; attackers drained vulnerable wallets, now totaling more than 1,300 bitcoin. The victims did exactly what experts had been advising for years: hold your own keys. That is precisely what makes this theft so painful. If you hold your own bitcoin, you are not relying on a single device but on an entire chain that has to work flawlessly for years. And that chain fails more often than many investors realize.
Aldus Amdax
The curse of the third generation
The fortunes of wealthy families usually evaporate within three generations. Only three in ten families hold on to theirs any longer, and economist Maarten de Groot discovered in his doctoral research at VU Amsterdam that this has little to do with money. "It's not about money. It's about the family," he summed it up in de Volkskrant. That research is relevant not only to the ultra-rich, but also to the early crypto investor. That person has by now become a first generation of their own. And so they run into the same question: what happens next?
Aldus Amdax
The power of the boring middle ground
Bitcoin recently dropped to 58,000 dollars, more than halving from its peak of 126,000. In a bear market like that you see various strategies, or the lack of one, pass by: pulling the handbrake at a preset level, selling in blind fear, or doing nothing at all and riding the whole way down. The market proves that timing is a lottery, even with the best tools. That is why, as far as I am concerned, the biggest chance of return lies somewhere else: in the boring middle ground.
