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Bitcoin

Satoshi's Lost-Coin Quote Hits 16-Year Mark as Millions of BTC Are Deemed Lost

By NBTC29/07/2026

The discussion happened 16 years ago today, on June 21, 2010, in a Bitcointalk thread called “Dying bitcoins.” A user had asked whether forgotten wallets meant the network would shrink over time. After replies from Laszlo Hanyecz and Gavin Andresen, Satoshi answered at 17:48:26 UTC with a line that still circulates today: “Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.” Satoshi’s lost-coins quote is less a prediction that bitcoin’s price would rise and more an observation that scarcity intensifies as coins disappear from circulation. Still, the premise ultimately relies on…

Regulation

Why Africa Is Quietly Becoming the Next Global Capital of Crypto

By NBTC29/07/2026

Africa could very well become one of, if not the most important, crypto growth markets. The reason is not due to speculative activity, but because crypto actually solves real problems on the continent. With mobile payments taking off, lots of people without bank accounts, high cross-border transfer fees, and unstable local currencies, cryptocurrencies (especially stablecoins) are proving genuinely useful. For instance, according to Chainalysis, between July 2024 and June 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa received more than $205 billion in on-chain value, representing 52% year-over-year growth. This makes it the third-fastest-growing crypto region globally. Unlike a lot of more developed markets, Africa’s…

Altcoins

Zcash Crash Just Wiped Billions From the Privacy Coin's Market Cap—Can ZEC Recover?

By NBTC29/07/2026

In brief The price of Zcash crashed more than 40% following the discovery of a vulnerability that could have led to counterfeit $ZEC minting. Whether or not the vulnerability was exploited remains unknown—a variable impacting the price according to analysts. Even with its fall, Zcash remains one of the top performing assets of the last year, up more than 580% in that time. A four-year-old vulnerability that could have fueled unlimited minting of $ZEC was discovered in one of Zcash’s private transaction pools—a core feature of the privacy-focused network—fueling investor panic and sending $ZEC down more than 40% in a…

Legal

SEC Proposes E-Delivery Rule to Modernize Investor Information Access

By NBTC29/07/2026

On July 16, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new rule, Regulation E-Delivery, to expand the electronic delivery of required financial information. Notably, the proposal aims to make disclosures more accessible and useful for investors while retaining the option for paper delivery on request. Expanded Electronic Delivery Framework According to the SEC press release, Regulation E-Delivery would allow issuers, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other market intermediaries to deliver required information electronically without first obtaining affirmative consent. Notably, this approach is intended to replace the Commission’s decades-old guidance-based e-delivery system. The range of information eligible for electronic…

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Bears Eye Lower Levels As TradingView Analysts Flag Failed Recovery

By NBTC29/07/2026

Bitcoin’s weekend rebound is running into a familiar problem: several TradingView analysts are still treating the move as a retest rather than a confirmed reversal. TradingView chart shared by SHAY_ANALYTICS. TL;DR Three TradingView ideas point to Bitcoin struggling beneath important resistance after a recent breakdown. SHAY_ANALYTICS says $BTC remains bearish while it trades below the former triangle support and Ichimoku cloud. Milad_sangari flags a channel breakdown and retest near the $63,600–$63,980 resistance area. DomicChaina says the $64,000–$65,000 zone remains the key ceiling unless buyers show stronger follow-through. Bitcoin Rebound Faces A Resistance Test The common thread across the bearish TradingView…

Regulation

BTC treasury firm Empery Digital invests $20M in AI data center developer Cardinal Data Power

By NBTC29/07/2026

Empery Digital said it invested $20 million in Cardinal Data Power, acquiring an approximately 8% stake in the private developer of powered data center campuses. The investment was part of Cardinal Data Power’s approximately $70 million Series A financing and will support development of a 750-megawatt data center campus in West Texas. The project is expected to deliver its first power in 2027, expand to about 1 gigawatt by 2029 and eventually exceed 5 gigawatts. Cardinal develops powered data center campuses for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. The company said it combines power generation, natural gas supply and electrical…

Altcoins

Zcash weighs new shielded pool after counterfeiting flaw

By NBTC29/07/2026

Zcash developers and researchers are discussing whether a new shielded pool could help restore supply verification confidence after a recently patched Orchard vulnerability. Shielded Labs, an independent Swiss-based Zcash support organization, said in a security update on Friday that it is exploring a proposed network upgrade that would deploy a new shielded pool and enforce “turnstile accounting” on coins moving from Orchard, giving users a clearer way to verify the integrity of funds moving out of the pool. The group said the proposal is still subject to further explanation and community review. Shielded Labs said it plans to publish a…

Legal

Russia Pushes Crypto Prison Law Past Elections

By NBTC29/07/2026

Russia’s law criminalizing illegal cryptocurrency exchange will not be finalized before parliamentary elections, with second and third readings pushed to the new State Duma’s autumn session. The head of the Duma’s Financial Markets Committee confirmed this week that the bill, which carries sentences of up to seven years for illegal crypto exchange, has been shelved until after elections conclude on 20th September. Background: What the Law Would Do The bill passed its first reading in early July and targets what Russian authorities define as the illegal organization of cryptocurrency circulation. In practical terms, that means any crypto exchange conducted outside…

Bitcoin

Bitcoin treasury companies in Europe struggle with shareholder cost issues

By NBTC29/07/2026

Europe's Bitcoin treasury trade is moving from accumulation headlines into financing design. Capital B now has shareholder authority for a huge capital and credit toolkit, while $BTC AB is testing investor demand for a preference-share structure before its June 30 subscription deadline. The shared promise is higher Bitcoin per fully diluted share. The shareholder risk is that dilution, credit capacity, preference dividends, and redemption terms become the story before any added Bitcoin improves the per-share claim. For Bitcoin treasury companies, the financing structure now matters as much as the size of the Bitcoin stack. That test sharpened this week after…

DeFi

Why Uniswap liquidity providers say the protocol fee switch ‘can’t work’

By NBTC29/07/2026

Liquidity providers (LPs) are now concerned over Uniswap’s fee switch across the Robinhood Chain and the DEX’s other V4 versions across other networks. The latest fee switch was activated on Monday, the 27th of July. Experts now claim that those who provide liquidity in V2 and V3 will see up to a 25% haircut. For those in V4, the shared profits can be cut by up to 33%, mainly for Uniswap [$UNI] buyback and burn. According to some LPs like Guil Lambert, the new fees ‘structurally can’t work,’ pressing his colleagues to explore better yield opportunities. The fee switch is…