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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 5.92% in Third-Largest Hike of 2026
On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network’s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92% to 140....
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BLOCK (BLOCK) — News
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Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards
Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards Block’s Proto mining hashboards are now available on Sazmining’s minin...
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Filecoin plans to shift block rewards toward paid storage
Filecoin's shift in block rewards could incentivize genuine storage demand, potentially tightening FIL supply and enhancing network transparency. The ...
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Filecoin Plans to Shift Block Rewards Toward Paid Storage
Under FIP-0118, the consensus share of each block reward falls from 95% toward a 50% floor over about nine quarters, and any service share left unearn...
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Block’s Proto Bitcoin Mining Hardware Now Available to Own via Sazmining
Bitcoin mining services provider Sazmining has launched a new offering that allows individual investors to purchase mining hardware developed by Block...
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Aptos makes Block-STM v2 its default parallel execution engine
Aptos' Block-STM v2 enhances blockchain efficiency, potentially lowering transaction costs and improving DeFi performance amid high demand. The post A...
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Coinbase website goes unreachable for some users after court-ordered block
Court-ordered blocks on platforms like Coinbase highlight the growing tension between digital markets and regulatory frameworks, impacting global acce...
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Coinbase Lays Out Post-Quantum Needs for Bitcoin Custody
Coinbase says a future BTC signature design should account for transaction fees, full-node validation costs and the limits of block space.
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UK Trader Targets 1,053 Losing BitMEX Trades in £20 Million Claim
BitMEX Trader Seeks 324.8 BTC Back, Leaving Other Trades Untouched Of the roughly 2,294 trades Lewis Barber placed on BitMEX, his lawsuit challenges 1...
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'It Can Take Years': Coinbase Presses for Bitcoin Quantum Migration to Start Now
In a detailed technical post, the exchange argued Bitcoin’s multi-year migration to quantum-resistant cryptography must begin before any “Q-Day,” layi...
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Jito upgrades Block Assembly Marketplace, cuts bundle delays by about 50ms
The upgrade enhances Solana's transaction efficiency, potentially increasing validator revenue and influencing transaction ordering dynamics. The post...
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South Korea Blocks 27 Crypto Exchange Websites, Including KuCoin, BitMart
South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit has ordered access restrictions on 27 websites operated by unregistered overseas cryptocurrency exchanges, i...
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Anza Sets Oct. 21 for Solana’s Alpenglow Mainnet Upgrade
The upgrade targets 150-millisecond finality, while validators and block-data providers face software changes before the switch.
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Now Accepting Bitcoin: Moonflower Coffee and 300+ Colorado Bitcoin Merchants
Bitcoin Magazine Now Accepting Bitcoin: Moonflower Coffee and 300+ Colorado Bitcoin Merchants Delicious Bitcoin Latte at Moonflower, Steak and Eggs a...
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South Korea moves to block 27 crypto websites, including KuCoin, MEXC
Authorities said the restrictions are aimed at unregistered exchanges and have acknowledged that customers could have difficulty withdrawing assets.
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Ontology Halts L1 Blockchain for 41 Hours Over an Unknown Threat
Ontology pulled the emergency brake on its blockchain for nearly two days, freezing block production after a security warning involving an unnamed eco...
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Iran judiciary could block government appointments, says President Pezeshkian
Judiciary's potential to block appointments may strain executive power, affecting leadership stability and market perceptions in Iran. The post Iran j...
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Filecoin Nears End of Six-Year Vesting, Removing 68 Million FIL in Annual Releases
At the latest mining pace, annualized additions from vesting and block rewards would fall from about 89 million FIL to 21 million. Storage-provider re...
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Ripple’s $24M XRP Debt Fight Puts a $400M Tranglo Stake on the Block
A Malaysian court has given Ripple a charging order over Seamless Group’s 60% stake in Tranglo, a holding priced at $400 million in January, to collec...
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Solana Schedules Final Cut to 200-Millisecond Slots
Per-block computing limits shrink to preserve overall capacity, while validators face more frequent voting and shorter production windows.
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Ethereum Test Network Raises Block Limit to Over 3x Its Current Capacity
Ethereum's Sepolia test network activated Glamsterdam on October 6 with a block gas limit near 200 million, over three times mainnet's 60 million.
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Ethereum Tests 200 Million Gas Limit On Sepolia As Glamsterdam Moves Forward
Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet is testing a 200 million block gas limit as part of work around the Glamsterdam upgrade. The experiment is more than three ...
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Solana Foundation Launches Atomic DvP Settlement Tool With JPMorgan Input
TL;DR The Solana Foundation has launched Solana DvP, an open-source delivery-versus-payment settlement program for financial institutions. The MIT-lic...
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Bitcoin’s Halving Clock Is Ticking With Fewer Than 80,000 Blocks Left
Bitcoin’s notorious halving event is getting closer, and as of Monday, there are now fewer than 80,000 blocks left until that point. When that happens...
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Zcash activates NU7 network upgrade on testnet at block height 4,465,026
Zcash's NU7 upgrade on testnet could enhance transaction speed and sustainability, potentially influencing broader blockchain adoption trends. The pos...
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Banking Group Sues to Block Crypto's 'Side Door' Into the Banking System
The Independent Community Bankers of America argues the OCC's national trust charters give crypto firms a "side door into the banking system" without ...
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Bitcoin Miners Bank Strong September as Difficulty Barely Budges
According to data, Bitcoin’s blockchain logged an extremely modest difficulty adjustment at block height 969696, dropping by a mere 0.03%. Hashprice h...
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Central Bank of Iran plans to block rial accounts tied to crypto exchanges
Iran's crypto restrictions could stifle local exchanges, complicate rial-to-crypto conversions, and heighten economic isolation amid sanctions. The po...
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Optimism Recommends op-node v1.19.8 For Sequencers Ahead Of Glamsterdam
TL;DR Optimism has released op-node v1.19.8 and recommends it particularly for sequencer operators using `–l2.follow.source`. The release fixes recurr...
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Metamask Pulls Validators as Meager ETH Theft Sounds Big Alarm
Metamask began pulling Ethereum validators after a security incident apparently diverted less than $1,000 in block tips, while outside researchers est...
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