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A developer sketches a deterrent for future Bitcoin theft, Zcash activates its faster-block upgrade, and Core Scientific's accounts show data centres taking over from mining.
Inspect what has shipped, distinguish it from what is proposed, and never assume a larger profit number means a larger pile of cash.
Cory Fields has outlined a Bitcoin thought experiment in which future quantum thieves must risk matching collateral. A prepared owner could recover their coins and take the attacker's deposit. The mechanism is not live.
Zcash's NU7 upgrade activated on 6 November at block 3,543,405, according to the ZecStats network tracker. It cuts the target interval between blocks from 75 to 25 seconds and changes how transaction fees support future mining rewards.
Core Scientific reported $215.4 million of high-density colocation revenue out of $232.9 million total revenue for the third quarter. Its 5 November results show how far the former mining-heavy business has moved towards hosting AI infrastructure.
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