Author: NBTC

If the vulnerability in the Zcash ($ZEC) network was never exploited by hackers, then the funds of all users remain safe, regardless of whether they move them to a new pool or not. This was stated by Ripple’s emeritus chief technology officer, David Schwartz, commenting on the current crisis around the privacy coin. According to him, coins “forgotten” on old addresses will simply remain in a lonely and abandoned pool, but will stay fully accessible to their owners. With this thesis, Schwartz highlighted the main paradox of the current crisis around the privacy cryptocurrency. If there was no exploit, everyone…

Key Highlights White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt has secured a deferral from the Georgia Army National Guard service to stay for the Clarity Act’s major Senate vote. His statement comes ahead of a big week for the Clarity Act. Patrick Witt has criticized lawmakers for delaying the bill while Russia moves forward with pro-crypto legislation. With the Senate facing a narrow window to pass the Clarity Act before the August recess, White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt has secured a deferment from the Georgia Army National Guard service that threatened to pull him away at a very crucial moment.…

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has joined the OKX cryptocurrency exchange as a member of its board of directors. Cuomo became a board member after advising the company on US regulatory and institutional matters for three years, since 2023. Strengthening OKX’s Governance According to the crypto exchange’s announcement, Cuomo’s appointment strengthens its governance as it expands its presence in the US and builds infrastructure linking traditional finance with digital assets. Cuomo had served as New York’s attorney general and as the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development before becoming the state’s 56th governor. According to OKX CEO Star…

Bitcoin mining difficulty, a key measure of the computational effort required to validate transactions and earn new coins, is on pace for an unprecedented decline. According to data shared by well-known quantitative analyst PlanB on X, the difficulty metric has fallen to approximately 126.2 trillion (T) in 2026, down from 148.3T at the end of 2025. If this trend holds through the end of the year, it would mark the first year-over-year decline since the network’s inception in 2009. Understanding the Significance of the Data PlanB, best known for his stock-to-flow (S2F) pricing model for Bitcoin, highlighted the potential milestone…

As talks between the US and Iran begin in Switzerland, significant steps are being taken by both countries as part of the negotiations. Accordingly, Iran committed to ensuring unimpeded freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and granting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities. The US, meanwhile, issued a general license allowing trade in Iranian crude oil and petrochemical products until August 21. While this situation pushed Bitcoin above $65,000, the declines seen in US stocks yesterday caused $BTC to fall to $62,000 and gold to drop to $4,100 per ounce. While volatility…

RootData’s recently released ‘2026 Crypto Industry Dead Projects List’ indicates that the cryptocurrency sector has already lost 99 projects in 2026. The database keeps track of initiatives that have formally shut down, filed for bankruptcy, or had their websites unavailable for a long time, serving as yet another reminder that one of the most difficult problems with digital assets is survival. There are many more obscure startups on the list. The projects mentioned include wallets like Family, Ctrl, and Leap as well as centralized exchanges like BitMart, BitMEX, and AscendEX. Infrastructure and DeFi names like Zapper, Stream Finance, Parsec, Loopring,…

Shibizens, an X handle run by Shibarium admins and mods that provides news and insights for the Shibarium ecosystem as well as tech upgrades, shares a status update with the $SHIB community. The status update pertains to the Shib.io website, the official gateway of the Shiba Inu ecosystem. Shibizens informed the Shiba Inu community in a recent tweet that the issue affecting the Shib website is only temporary. It added that the $SHIB team was aware of the problem and was actively working to resolve it soon. Status UpdateThe issue affecting the https://t.co/eXwiDUv3mx website is temporary. The team is aware…

The White House has reached an agreement on a key ethics provision within the Clarity Act, a major cryptocurrency market structure bill, according to Eleanor Terrett, host of Crypto In America. Terrett reported on X that the administration has shared the details of the agreement with some Republican senators, signaling a potential breakthrough for the legislation. Details of the Agreement Remain Under Wraps While the specifics of the ethics provision have not yet been publicly confirmed, the development marks a significant step forward for the Clarity Act. The ethics provision had been a primary sticking point in negotiations, with lawmakers…

With the cryptocurrency exchange scheduled to report data on July 30, traders on prediction market platforms are wagering that Coinbase’s trading volume in the second quarter fell significantly below projections. Part of the reason the bets are getting attention is that the platforms that handle them have expanded significantly in the last 12 months. In April 2026, the total trade volume on Kalshi and Polymarket reached $24 billion, almost five times more than it had been less than a year before. Traders on Kalshi believe that Coinbase’s trading activity was impacted by the roughly 12% drop in Bitcoin’s price during…

Bitcoin price has retreated toward key support after progress in U.S.-Iran talks sparked a broad selloff across risk assets and accelerated liquidations in crypto markets. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price slid as much as 2.2% to an intraday low near $62,560 on June 23 before stabilizing around the $62,800 area. The drop followed a sharp drop in crude oil prices, which fell below $73 per barrel after Washington granted Iran a 60-day license to sell oil on international markets and reports emerged that Tehran could regain access to $12 billion in frozen funds as part of a…