Cypherpunk

Cypherpunk

2026-08-18 19:31:16

Cypherpunk buys Winklevoss Capital mining fleet, says it controls 18% of Zcash hashrate

Cypherpunk Technologies said it acquired a Zcash mining fleet from Winklevoss Capital in an equity deal valued at $33.33 million, expanding its push into ZEC. The company says the fleet is already running at U.S. facilities and is producing about 4.2 GSol/s, or roughly 18% of Zcash’s current network hashrate. Cypherpunk also said it holds 323,394 ZEC, about 1.9% of circulating supply, and aims to reach 5% ownership. The move comes after ZEC surged in the second half of 2025 and after Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade went live on July 28.

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Zcash

2026-08-09 04:15:44

Ironwood Overtakes Orchard as Largest Shielded Pool on Zcash

Zcash treasury firm Cypherpunk revealed on X that Ironwood has overtaken Orchard to become the largest shielded pool on Zcash, with 1,976,378 ZEC locked, worth over $1 billion.

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Adam Back

2026-07-23 05:35:13

Adam Back Denies Being Satoshi Nakamoto After NYT Report

Adam Back takes to X to refute a New York Times article suggesting he is Bitcoin's creator, calling the evidence coincidental. Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal also questions the report's conclusions.

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Vitalik Buter

2026-07-22 17:10:14

Vitalik Buterin Plans Cypherpunk Upgrade for Ethereum: No Rebuild, Just Extension

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a 'cypherpunk-principled' bolt-on system for Ethereum, rejecting calls to abandon the existing chain. The multi-year upgrade targets state tree, consensus, VM, ZK-EVM, and censorship resistance, with AI-assisted coding potentially accelerating the timeline.

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Ethereum

2026-07-10 06:26:13

Vitalik Buterin: Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again – Rekindling Web3's Original Vision

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publishes 'Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again,' calling for a return to decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source values. He highlights progress in rollups and ZK proofs as key enablers for this shift.

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decentralized

2026-07-10 02:39:13

Decentralized Marketplace: Bitcoin's Next Killer App — A 2016 Vision Revisited

A retrospective look at Bitcoin.com's 2016 article envisioning decentralized marketplaces as Bitcoin's next killer app, examining OpenBazaar's multi-sig escrow, NXT FreeMarket's blockchain-based trade, and the Cypherpunk ideals behind peer-to-peer commerce.

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cypherpunk

2026-07-10 02:00:13

The Cypherpunk Movement: From 1992 Silicon Valley to Bitcoin's Privacy Revolution

Born in 1992, the Cypherpunk movement of Silicon Valley visionaries used cryptography to fight government surveillance, foreseeing Bitcoin, Tor, and decentralized technologies that still shape crypto today.

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cypherpunk

2026-07-09 18:52:13

Timothy May Recalls Bitcoin’s Inception: Cypherpunks, Satoshi, and the Rise of Crypto Anarchy

Cypherpunk founder Timothy C. May revisited Bitcoin’s birth, Satoshi’s whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list, Ethereum and the DAO hack, and the enduring vision of crypto anarchy in a keynote at Paralelní Polis in Prague.

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