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Barry Silbert’s Zcash miner proposes merger, sends Nasdaq stock soaring despite rough month for ZEC

Fortitude Mining, a Zcash mining subsidiary of Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group, has proposed a merger with Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences Inc., causing the small-cap stock to surge despite Zcash (ZEC) experiencing a difficult month. The merger represents a significant strategic move for DCG as it seeks to take a major mining operation public through a reverse merger.

Bitcoin Cost-Of-Production Signal Raises Miner Stress Question As BTC Holds Support

Bitcoin is trading below its average cost of production according to recent social media analysis, triggering concerns about miner profitability and potential capitulation. However, technical charts indicate BTC is holding support at a critical demand zone, suggesting the market may stabilize despite production cost pressures.

Zcash Halving: How It Shapes Miner Revenue and Long-Term Supply

Zcash completed its November 2024 halving, reducing block rewards from 3.125 ZEC to 1.5625 ZEC and cutting miner revenue by 50%. With 16.7 million of 21 million ZEC already circulating and miners receiving only 80% of rewards while the remainder funds grants and a lockbox, the halving highlights tensions between supply scarcity and mining sustainability.

Hive shares jumps 10% on $220m Canada sovereign AI infrastructure deal

Human genetic evidence is associated with drug approval across therapeutic areas: an observational analysis of 26,278 target-disease pairs with temporal validation and feature ablation

DeepRoot: A KG-Coordinated Multi-Agent System for Therapeutic Reasoning over Historical Medical Texts

PVminerLLM2: Improving Structured Extraction of Patient Voice via Preference Optimization

An Empirical Analysis of Optimization Dynamics and Sparsity Boundaries in Large-Scale Pedestrian Attribute Recognition

APEX: Adaptive Principle EXtraction A Three-Layer Self-Evolution Framework for Production AI Agents

Your Agent Has a Genome: Sequence-Level Behavioral Analysis and Runtime Governance of LLM-Powered Autonomous Agents

PAL-Bench: Evidence-Grounded Profile Reconstruction from Longitudinal Personal Albums

DIFF-ERO: A Conformance-Aware Loss for Deep Learning in Process Mining

Learning optimal policies from event logs through reinforcement learning: a comparison of deep and MDP-based approaches

scLLM-DSC: LLM-Knowledge Enhanced Cross-Modal Deep Structural Clustering for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Causal Study of Java Repositories

Pi coin vs its own halving: the mining rate math, explained

Pi Network uses a halving mechanism and declining mining rate rather than token burns to manage supply, with unlocks of existing tokens vastly outpacing new mining generation. This supply structure fundamentally differs from traditional deflationary models and has significant implications for long-term price dynamics and token availability.

ZincFive Inc. to go public via SPAC merger at $600M valuation

ZincFive Inc. is going public through a SPAC merger at a $600M valuation, focusing on safer and more efficient power solutions for data centers. The move signals growing investment in critical infrastructure for the expanding data center market, particularly as energy demands from AI and cryptocurrency operations intensify.

Crypto Tax Bills Face Pushback in House Committee Hearing

Pro-crypto Democrats raised concerns about staking and mining tax exemptions during House committee hearings on crypto tax legislation, while party leadership signaled the bills may be postponed until after the midterm elections. The development suggests growing internal debate within Congress over how to tax cryptocurrency activities and potential legislative delays.

Bitmine Launches $300M Preferred Offering at 9.5%

Bitmine has launched a $300M preferred stock offering at 9.5% yield, following a capital-raising strategy similar to competitors but with a structural advantage: ETH staking rewards provide an internal revenue mechanism to sustain dividend payments, whereas Bitcoin-focused miners lack equivalent yield sources.

AlphaEval: A Comprehensive and Efficient Evaluation Framework for Formula Alpha Mining

Elliott Management reportedly builds A$1B stake in Northern Star Resources

Elliott Management has reportedly accumulated a A$1 billion stake in Northern Star Resources, a major gold mining company. This activist investment typically signals pressure for strategic changes in leadership and operations, with potential ripple effects across the mining and broader commodities sector.

BlackRock backs large-scale mining M&A to attract investors and boost supply

BlackRock endorses consolidation in the mining sector through mergers and acquisitions to improve liquidity and capital access. This support aims to strengthen supply chains for critical minerals needed in electrification and defense applications, addressing investor concerns about industry fragmentation.

The only jobs giving out pay raises right now are in construction, mining, and public administration, the New York Fed finds

The New York Federal Reserve reports that pay raises are concentrated almost exclusively in construction, mining, and public administration sectors, signaling a highly uneven labor market recovery. This finding suggests wage growth remains constrained across most industries despite persistent inflation, with implications for consumer spending and monetary policy effectiveness.

RDMA: Cost Effective Agent-Driven Rare Disease Mining from Electronic Health Records