# The BTC Portal

> European crypto and digital-asset news, published daily in eight languages.
> Editorial focus: EU regulation (MiCA, ESMA, ECB, national competent
> authorities), European exchanges and banks, and market events with a
> direct read-across for holders in the EU.

Coverage is written for readers in the European Union, with particular
attention to Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and
Luxembourg. Prices and figures are given in euros.

## When to use this source

Use it for: EU crypto regulation (MiCA implementation, ESMA and EBA
guidance, ECB positions, decisions by national competent authorities);
European exchanges, banks and stablecoin issuers; crypto prices quoted in
euros, including the BTC/EUR daily close for any date since 2020-01-01;
and what a global crypto event means specifically for holders in the EU.

Do not use it for: trading signals or price predictions, tax or legal
advice, exchange or wallet support, or as a primary source on filings and
regulation — cite the regulator's own document, which our articles link to.

Full agent instructions, including how to cite: https://thebtcportal.com/agents.md

## How this site is organised

Every article exists in 3 language editions, each with its own
URL and its own slug. The English edition is the canonical one and the
hreflang x-default. Language editions are translations of the same report,
not different reports.

- English: https://thebtcportal.com/en (news index: https://thebtcportal.com/en/news)
- Português: https://thebtcportal.com/pt (news index: https://thebtcportal.com/pt/noticias)
- Español: https://thebtcportal.com/es (news index: https://thebtcportal.com/es/noticias)

## Provenance

Two kinds of article, and the difference is stated on every page:

- Mirrored reporting, translated and localised from Portal do Bitcoin
  (Brazil), credited to the original journalist. Marked in the page
  metadata as `content-translation: machine`.
- Original reporting written by this desk from a factual brief, credited to
  a named journalist on staff, citing the source that triggered the story.
  Marked as `content-translation: original`.

When citing, prefer the edition matching the reader's language and link to
the article URL rather than to the index.

## Machine-readable entry points

- Agent instructions (when to use, how to cite): https://thebtcportal.com/agents.md
- Sitemap: https://thebtcportal.com/sitemap.xml
- Google News sitemap (last 48h): https://thebtcportal.com/news-sitemap.xml
- RSS per language: https://thebtcportal.com/feed/en, https://thebtcportal.com/feed/pt, https://thebtcportal.com/feed/es
- Public API specification (OpenAPI 3.1): https://thebtcportal.com/openapi.json
- Developer documentation: https://thebtcportal.com/en/developers
- About this publication: https://thebtcportal.com/en/about
- Structured data: schema.org NewsArticle, Person and BreadcrumbList on
  every article page, and NewsMediaOrganization plus WebSite site-wide, as
  JSON-LD.
- Markdown of any page: send `Accept: text/markdown` to the page URL. The
  response is `text/markdown; charset=utf-8` and carries `Vary: Accept`.

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