bitcoin.de: trading idle, MiCAR licence still missing

Crypto trading on bitcoin.de has been idle since the end of June 2026, and the half-year report of Bitcoin Group SE dated September 29, 2026 gives a single reason for it: authorisation under the European crypto regulation MiCAR is not yet in place, and the company leaves open when it will come. Anyone holding an account on the marketplace is now waiting a fourth consecutive quarter for a trading venue whose technology, according to the company, has long been finished.

Chief executive Moritz Eckert puts it this way in the statement: „With the redevelopment of bitcoin.de we have created the essential conditions that lie within our own sphere of influence.“ The rest lies with the supervisor. For you as an investor that is an uncomfortable position, because it has no end date.

What Bitcoin Group SE reported in its 2026 half-year report

Bitcoin Group SE is the listed parent company behind the trading venue bitcoin.de. Trading itself is handled by its subsidiary futurum bank AG, a credit institution licensed under the German Banking Act. That split matters for understanding the news: the permission currently missing is not the banking licence but the separate authorisation as a provider of crypto-asset services.