Zcash Sets Stage for ‘Sapling’ Upgrade With New Software Release

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Yesterday, a day of no particular importance during the depths of a brutal bear market when crypto has been kicked around by seemingly everyone, the steeple bells peeled in goblin town.On Thursday, the news spread quickly across Crypto Twitter, Slack, Discord and Telegram that a federal judge of the vaunted United States District Court for…

The price of bitcoin (BTC) remained below $66,000 late in the day during U.S. trading hours Wednesday after a couple of modest rallies were met with quick selling action.At $65,800 at press time, bitcoin was flat over the past 24 hours. Dragged down by 10% declines in bitcoin cash (BCH) and litecoin (LTC) the broader

Jun 12, 2020 at 19:25 UTCCredit: Shutterstock (modified using PhotoMosh)Digital Dollar? Get Real, Financial Inclusion Advocates Tell CongressCurrently just a flashy idea, the digital dollar is competing with more prosaic but proven 20th-century methods for the job of getting stimulus funds to every U.S. resident. That’s the takeaway from Thursday’s House Financial Services Committee (FSC)…

JPMorgan notes that mining stocks have slumped ahead of the bitcoin halving.The bank favors Riot Platforms and Iris Energy.Bitcoin’s outperformance may mean that part of the typical post-halving rally has been pulled forward, the report said.Recent weakness in mining stocks ahead of the bitcoin (BTC) halving offers an attractive entry point for investors, JPMorgan (JPM)

Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream expects to unveil its long-awaited Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) miner – a culmination of years of engineering work – around the third quarter of 2024, according to Blockstream CEO and co-founder Adam Back during the company’s first ever media briefing on Tuesday.The company acquired Israeli mining hardware manufacturer Spondoolies in 2021,…

May 1, 2020 at 21:21 UTCUpdated May 1, 2020 at 21:31 UTCBUSY: A recent surge in mining power may have overcome the difficulty rate. (Credit: Shutterstock)In an unusual deviation from the norm, bitcoin miners just produced 16 blocks in 63 minutes, according to the Blockstream bitcoin block explorer. Four of the new blocks were mined…

news A South Korean financial watchdog under the Financial Services Commission (FSC) is planning to more closely supervise cryptocurrency exchanges. The agency in question, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), has said it will directly regulate crypto trading platforms, which currently are indirectly controlled via guidance given to banks, says a report in Business Korea on Wednesday.…

Stablecoins are the backbone of the crypto economy. Transactions involving USD-backed stablecoins reached nearly $6.87 trillion in 2022, surpassing the volumes of Mastercard and PayPal. Despite the crypto winter, stablecoin activity has remained resilient, reflecting approximately 40% of all value transacted on blockchain networks. In other words, stablecoins have emerged as an innovation with product-market