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Zcash's second halving, which occurred on November 23, 2024, at block height 2,726,400, cut the block reward from 3.125 ZEC to 1.5625 ZEC. For miners, that meant an immediate 50% drop in ZEC
InterLink (@inter_link), the identity-focused crypto project, said it crossed 9 million users on June 18, with its long-promised Private Mainnet due this month. The timing matters. InterLink
Quantum computing threatens Bitcoin and crypto for one narrow reason: a powerful enough quantum computer could work backward from a wallet's public key to its private key, then sign transacti
Federal prosecutors say the Garcia brothers have pleaded guilty in an $8 million crypto heist case tied to a family kidnapping. For crypto readers, the verified update is narrow but serious:
BitcoinWorld F2Pool Co-Founder Wang Chun Acquires $50.7 Million in Bitcoin and Ether in One Week Wang Chun, the co-founder of F2Pool — the world’s fourth-largest Bitcoin mining pool by hashra
BitcoinWorld Solana Policy Institute CEO Calls for Tax Deferral on Staking and Mining Rewards Until Sale Kristin Smith, CEO of the Solana Policy Institute, has publicly urged U.S. lawmakers t
UK politics is entering a leadership transition that could reshape how the government thinks about digital assets—at least in tone, and potentially in the pace of implementation. Prime Minist
BitcoinWorld What is Bitcoin (BTC)? Complete Guide for 2025 # What is Bitcoin (BTC)? Complete Guide for 2025 Bitcoin (BTC) is the world’s first decentralized digital currency, created in 2009
CFTC Chair Michael Selig has defended crypto perpetual futures while stressing they are not suitable for agricultural markets, as regulated crypto perps continue expanding across U.S. venues.
CBOE has begun evaluating a conversion of its Bitcoin and Ether futures into perpetual contracts after crypto perpetuals generated more than $8.5 billion in trading volume on Kalshi within we
Zcash miner Fortitude Mining Holdings has secured a path to the public markets through an all-stock merger with HeartSciences, a transaction that will place the crypto mining company on the N
President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders directing all US federal agencies to migrate high-value systems to post-quantum cryptography, setting hard deadlines that put Washington
