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News.Bitcoin / Beam, BCH and Zcash Will Join BTC in Halving Their Mining Rewards

December 8, 2019 / newsbitcoin

There’s been a lot of noise about Bitcoin’s halving, set to occur in May, and the effect this will have on price as BTC’s mining reward is slashed. It’s not…

Cointelegraph / Zcash Donates $40K to Canadian Private Messaging Developer

December 4, 2019 / cointelegraph

The Zcash Foundation, the firm behind privacy-centric cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC), has donated $40,000 to a Canadian private messaging developer. The Open Privacy Research Society, a non-profit group working on Cwtch,…

Cointelegraph / Litecoin-Funded Grin Developer Challenges Mimblewimble’s Privacy Issue

December 2, 2019 / cointelegraph

A Grin (GRIN) developer funded by the Litecoin Foundation has suggested a solution for fixing the “Achilles heel of Mimblewimble privacy.” David Burkett, a developer at Mimblewimble’s (MW) privacy-centric coin…

Cointelegraph / Altcoin Market Capitalization Shrinks Despite Volume Boost Since 2017

November 20, 2019 / cointelegraph

At present, the combined capitalization of the 2,022 crypto assets with a known market cap was roughly $222 billion. On Nov. 19, 2017, just weeks before the current all-time highs…

Cointelegraph / Researcher Breaks Grin’s ‘Privacy’ Spending Just $60 Per Week

November 18, 2019 / cointelegraph

Mimblewimble, a privacy-focused blockchain protocol, is allegedly not private at all. According to an expert at blockchain research firm Dragonfly Research, Mimblewimble’s privacy is fundamentally flawed, which he reportedly proved…

Bitcoinist / Mimblewimble Attacked Using $60 Per Week on AWS

November 18, 2019 / bitcoinist

Ivan Bogatyy of Dragonfly Research says he was able to use as little as $60 per week on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expose a critical vulnerability on the Mimblewimble…

Cointelegraph / Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Explained

November 18, 2019 / cointelegraph

1. A zero-knowledge proof is a digital protocol that allows for data to be shared between two parties without the use of a password or any other information associated with…

Cointelegraph / Zcash Creator Donates Company Trademark to the Zcash Foundation

November 8, 2019 / cointelegraph

Electric Coin Company (ECC) has donated the Zcash trademark to the Zcash Foundation. ECC created and launched the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) in 2016, and will now own the trademark…

Coindesk / Zcash Trademark Talks Were About More Than a Logo

November 7, 2019 / coindesk

Electric Coin Company (ECC), the firm led by zcash creator Zooko Wilcox, officially shared the zcash trademark with the Zcash Foundation (ZF) on Wednesday. Sources with knowledge of the trademark…

Cointelegraph / Wrapped Crypto Tokens, Explained

October 26, 2019 / cointelegraph

5. Because Ethereum is the biggest DeFi ecosystem, wrapped tokens are often those hosted on other blockchains but are also stablecoins that are pegged to the dollar. Many of the…

Cointelegraph / Privacy-Focused Cryptos Hunted Down by Forensics and Exchanges

October 25, 2019 / cointelegraph

As Japan and South Korea — two of the largest cryptocurrency exchange markets in Asia — are increasingly pressuring exchanges to delist privacy-focused crypto assets, and concerns are rising that…

Cointelegraph / Germany Warns of Privacy Token Usage in Money Laundering and Terrorism

October 22, 2019 / cointelegraph

The German Federal Ministry of Finance has expressed concerns about rising use of privacy tokens due to their association with criminal activities and difficulties in tracking them. Published on Oct.…

Cointelegraph / Zcash Community Discovers Likely Malicious Fake Version of ZecWallet

October 21, 2019 / cointelegraph

Members of the Zcash (ZEC) community have discovered a suspicious and potentially malicious counterfeit version of Zcash Foundation’s native ZecWallet. According to a Twitter post published on Oct. 20 and…

Cointelegraph / Binance CEO Confused by BNB Price Decline Despite ‘Very Productive’ Q3

October 17, 2019 / cointelegraph

Changpeng Zhao, CEO and founder of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, said that the reasons why Binance Coin (BNB) dropped over 50% from its all-time high in June do not make…

Coindesk / Zcash’s Halo Breakthrough Is a Big Deal – Not Just For Cryptocurrencies

October 14, 2019 / coindesk

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a…

Cointelegraph / Privacy Coin Zcash Community to Develop Wrapped Token for Ethereum

October 13, 2019 / cointelegraph

The privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) is seeking access to Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Zcash’s shielded addresses on the Ethereum network On Oct. 13, Coindesk reported that the topic of…

Coindesk / Zcash Will Get a Gateway Into Ethereum’s DeFi Ecosystem

October 13, 2019 / coindesk

When cryptocurrency fans gathered in Osaka, Japan, this week for the Devcon developer conference, the halls were filled with buzz about smaller projects seeking access to ethereum’s decentralized finance smorgasbord,…

Cointelegraph / Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Delists XMR, DASH, ZEC, ZEN, SBTC

October 10, 2019 / cointelegraph

Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced the end of Monero (XMR), DASH, Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Super Bitcoin (SBTC) trading as of today, Oct. 10. Per the Oct. 2 announcement, the…

Coindesk / OKEx Korea Reviewing Decision to Delist Privacy Coins Zcash and Dash

October 10, 2019 / coindesk

The South Korean arm of cryptocurrency exchange OKEX has halted, for now at least, the delisting of two privacy coins due to regulatory pressure from the Financial Action Task Force…

Cointelegraph / Zcash Bug Could Reveal Shielded Full Nodes’ IP Addresses

September 29, 2019 / cointelegraph

A bug in all Zcash (ZEC) implementations and most of its forks could leak metadata containing the full nodes’ with shielded addresses (zaddr) IPs. Komodo (KMD) core developer Duke Leto…

Coindesk / South Korea’s Upbit Becomes Latest Exchange to Delist Privacy Coins

September 20, 2019 / coindesk

Another cryptocurrency exchange has delisted a slew of privacy coins following recent regulatory requirements from the international body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). According to a notice from Korea…

Bitcoinist / Privacy Coins Must Change to Survive as Delistings Loom

September 20, 2019 / bitcoinist

Privacy coins are facing a threat over the latest regulatory requirements for transparency. Relatively well-accepted assets like Dash (DASH), Monero (XMR), and ZCash (ZEC) will have to comply with almost…

Cointelegraph / Israeli Startup That Allows Offline Crypto Transactions Secures $4M

September 19, 2019 / cointelegraph

Israeli cybersecurity startup GK8 has reportedly developed the world’s first offline system for transacting cryptocurrencies. The new system uses GK8’s proprietary cryptographic techniques that enable instant blockchain transactions of digital…

Coindesk / Israeli Startup Creates Offline Crypto Wallet with Online Connectivity

September 18, 2019 / coindesk

Israeli startup GK8 unveiled a cold-storage crypto wallet with on-network transfer capabilities, the company said. GK8’s technology removes many of the dangers internet-accessible crypto wallets face – hacks, attacks, unexplained…

Cointelegraph / Binance to Launch Lending for XMR, ZEC and DASH This Week

September 17, 2019 / cointelegraph

Binance exchange will feature three new coins within the fifth phase of its crypto lending product available for subscription starting from Sept. 20. Same interest rate for all 3 coins…

NewsBTC / Binance Teases FATF, Allows Lending via Privacy Coins

September 17, 2019 / newsbtc

Binance, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, is adding three anonymity-focused cryptocurrencies to its loaning platform.The Malta-based company said in a blog post that Binance Lending…

News.Bitcoin / FATF-Driven Delistings Capture the Criminalization of Privacy

September 17, 2019 / newsbitcoin

The delisting of privacy coins like monero, zcash, and dash is becoming something of a trend in Asia, and could soon expand elsewhere. In the wake of the intra-governmental Financial…

NewsBTC / FATF Pressures OKEx to Delist Monero, Zcash, Dash; Litecoin Next?

September 16, 2019 / newsbtc

A guideline issued by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is prompting OKEx to delist popular privacy-centering cryptocurrencies.Travel RuleThe Korean wing of the cryptocurrency firm announced on Monday that it is…

Bitcoinist / Crypto Inflation Figures Show Why Bitcoin is King Above Others Like ZEC and XRP

September 14, 2019 / bitcoinist

The high inflation figures for altcoins like ZCash (ZEC) and XRP are providing yet another basis for the “bitcoin is king” argument. Indiscriminate Dumping Hurting Altcoin Value Tweeting on Friday…

Coindesk / You Can Now Prove a Whole Blockchain With One Math Problem – Really

September 14, 2019 / coindesk

The Electric Coin Company (ECC) says it discovered a new way to scale blockchains with “recursive proof composition,” a proof to verify the entirety of a blockchain in one function. For…

Cointelegraph / The Company Behind Zcash Announces Proposed Solution to Trusted Setup

September 13, 2019 / cointelegraph

Electric Coin Company (ECC), which launched and supports the development of privacy-coin Zcash recently published a paper called: Halo: Recursive Proof Composition without a Trusted Setup. On Sept. 10, ECC…