Bitcoin Has 80,000 Blocks Left Until Its Next Halving
The milestone tracks progress toward Bitcoin’s next scheduled cut to its block reward, a supply mechanism built into the network.
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The milestone tracks progress toward Bitcoin’s next scheduled cut to its block reward, a supply mechanism built into the network.
The split follows a rapid launch for ZCSH, while ZEC's rally is pulling more computing power into the network and squeezing miner economics.
The hire hands DCG a credible public-market face for a Zcash miner that already prints 28% of network supply, with a clean Nasdaq exit at a $400M implied valuation.
The omission matters because mining and staking rewards are the two crypto tax questions every operator, validator, and protocol team has been waiting on Washington to clarify.
The committee will weigh tax deferral for newly generated tokens and broader wash-sale and constructive-sale rules for digital assets.
More than 2.5x growth in Zcash mining activity this year on a standardized hashpower basis ties miner profitability to stronger network security, creating a potential feedback loop for ZEC.
Bitcoin's security-budget debate usually tracks aggregate fee revenue. A July 2026 NBER working paper argues the per-block fee gap, not the monthly total, is where fee-sniping incentives actually…
The mechanism works both ways: the February crash forced Riot to lock up 1,825 BTC; the rally to $78K has now dropped LTV to 44.1%, below two of three release thresholds in the loan.
Pairing a Nasdaq-listed treasury vehicle with 18% of Zcash's hashrate and a 5% ZEC supply target turns a privacy-coin mining bet into an institutionally-backed accumulation play.
The breakaway chain inherited Bitcoin's full mining difficulty while paying miners in a coin with no market, no exchange listing, and no buyers, making the fork economically dead on arrival.
Strategy's BTC Yield slides, Metaplanet trades below its coin stash, and a clutch of European treasury newcomers are asking public markets to fund them on terms nobody has priced yet.
Runets and En+ are tied to a mining-equipment deal that allegedly cost the energy conglomerate 1 billion rubles; the case tests whether Russia's mining sector can still count on industrial-scale…
The site is engineered to ride surplus grid capacity and switch off during peak demand, which is how Fortitude expects direct cash mining cost to fall from ~$70 to ~$40 per ZEC.
The collapse lands as Fidelity argues AI demand is reshaping miner economics, giving hash-power infrastructure a more valuable use than block rewards.
With $173M in prepetition obligations and a customer-withdrawal freeze from 2022 still unresolved, the stalking-horse bid opens a court-supervised auction that will set the recovery benchmark for…
Only 13% of investor funds reached the advertised crypto-mining rigs; the rest funded lifestyle spending and unrelated ventures, the SEC alleges.
Two solo blocks in eight hours of hashing at roughly one terahash per second against roughly 1-in-18,000-year odds, on a device that draws less power than a light bulb.
The flow tells two stories at once: stronger miners are borrowing against their coins to fund AI buildouts, while stressed peers are forced sellers.
The price target is unchanged because the deal was already modeled in, but the 20-year tenor and $27B contracted backlog reset the floor on what crypto-miner-to-AI pivots can underwrite.
The milestone only confirms what the dashboard already showed: EasyMining's hashrate hashrate pool added 1,168 BTC to its books in about two and a half years.