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The plan concerns public payments, where about seven in 10 ZEC sit. A separate wallet tool would keep balance checks from revealing which addresses belong together. Developers of privacy-focused Zcash (ZEC) plan to add protections designed to withstand quantum computers within months as warnings about AI-assisted attacks put the broader security of cryptocurrency wallets under scrutiny. “Our team plans for post-quantum signature opcodes to land in Zcash in January,” Roman.

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Your day-ahead look for Oct. 9, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. Bitcoin BTC$82,489.04 held near $82,600 after President Donald Trump said he would not strike Iran before the U.S. midterm elections, pulling the largest cryptocurrency off Thursday’s low of roughly $80,400 and turning the liquidation pressure onto bearish traders. Ether ETH$2,491.25 slipped 2% over 24 hours to about $2,500,.

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Bitcoin recovered to around $82,500 after Trump ruled out an Iran strike, but remains about 4% lower on the week, while ether has lost 9%. Bitcoin BTC$82,504.78 heads into the weekend about 4% lower than at the same time last Friday, even after recovering to around $82,500 from a low near $80,300 on Thursday. Ether ETH$2,491.91 slid 9% over the week to around $2,500. The BTC rebound followed a Truth.

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Thailand’s new crypto rules taking effect Oct. 16. They allow Thai asset managers to launch crypto ETFs on the local stock exchange, with bitcoin and ether initially eligible. Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued rules on Thursday, allowing local asset managers to create bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (EFTs), opening a new regulated route for investors to gain exposure to crypto through the country’s stock exchange. The rules take.

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Britain said the crypto platforms and two payment services may have helped Russia evade financial sanctions, with two handling transactions involving the Kremlin-backed A7 network. The U.K. sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges on Thursday as part of a package that includes 38 new designations aimed at financial networks it suspects are helping Russia evade sanctions. The Foreign Office named Xeltox Enterprises, the Canadian-registered company behind crypto exchanges Cryptomus, Heleket and Certa.

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A man from Virginia, who facilitated millions of drug transactions worth roughly $430 million, agreed to give up $100 million worth of BTC. His partner forfeited nearly 1,600 BTC. A co-creator of dark web drug enterprise Empire Market agreed to forfeit 1,230 bitcoin ($101 million), after receiving a 40-year federal prison sentence for his role in operating the site. Raheim Hamilton, 30, of Suffolk, Virginia, also agreed to forfeit 24.4.