Tagged: privacy coin

January 4, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital currency exchange Bittrex has announced that Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and Dash (DASH) cryptocurrency markets will be “removed on Friday, January 15th at 23:00 UTC.” The Bittrex team confirmed that the following markets will be removed on January 15, 2021: BTC-XMR, ETH-XMR, USDT-XMR BTC-ZEC,… Read More

December 10, 2020 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Arrington, the Founder of Arrington XRP Capital, has pointed out that a new privacy-oriented digital currency just launched its mainnet. According to Arrington, this newly launched project, called MobileCoin, appears to have ties to chat app Signal. A new privacy coin just went mainnet… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Electric Coin Company (ECC), which supports the development of Zcash (ZEC), a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, recently revealed that Liquid will be delisting ZEC along with 28 other digital currencies or tokens because the Japanese crypto trading platform is planning to apply for a license to… Read More

December 18, 2019 @ 7:50 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ricardo Spagni, aka “fluffypony,” the South African “lead maintainer” of the privacy cryptocurrency Monero, is stepping down. He will be staying on in a support position, however. The news was announced at GetMonero.org: “fluffypony is stepping down as the lead maintainer of Monero. Snipa will… Read More

November 27, 2019 @ 7:12 am By Cali Haan  |  

Polish crypto exchange BitBay has announced it has, “end(ed) market trading support for Monero (XMR),” a privacy-enhanced cryptocurrency, because the coin can be used for money laundering: “Monero (XMR) can selectively utilize anonymity features among projects…The decision was made to block the possibility of money… Read More

August 15, 2019 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Privacy Coin Zcoin (XZC) claims to be the first crypto available to 5 million merchants in Thailand which are registered to the Thai QR code system. Of course, being available does not mean consumers will use the crypto. But Zcoin believes that by plugging into… Read More

August 12, 2019 @ 5:54 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The UK division of US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has sent letters to customers telling them to convert their ZCash coins or remove their balances by August 26th, Coindesk reports. Balances not relocated will be converted to British pounds. ZCash is a so-called “privacy coin” that… Read More

July 7, 2019 @ 8:30 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“White hat hackers” (friendly researchers) have discovered nine bugs in the code underpinning Monero, a “privacy cryptocurrency” network created in 2014 that is designed to conceal the identities of its users, Hard Fork reports. Up until March of this year, one of the bugs could… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 2:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

A former Senior Software Engineer at Zerocoin Electric Coin Company, the company behind “privacy coin” cryptocurrency ZCash, is suing his former employer for $2 million USD plus costs. Plaintiff Simon Liu alleges in court documents that Zerocoin failed to ever turn over 15 000 Zerocoin… Read More

May 28, 2019 @ 7:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

The development team behind the “privacy coin” Monero has taken exception to a Reuters report profiling the coin and highlighting its use by criminals. “For a story that ‘examines the features and characteristics of some of the alternatives to Bitcoin that have grabbed the attention… Read More

February 26, 2019 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Binance has added support for Zcoin (XZC), a privacy coin to Trust Wallet. The company said this was part of their ongoing commitment to privacy projects. Trust Wallet is the official wallet of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in operation. Trust Wallet is a mobile… Read More

December 26, 2018 @ 4:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Individuals behind a “fork-merge” of Bitcoin and a fork of ZCash called ZClassic, “Bitcoin Private,” are in hot water this week on Twitter following the publication of an article by CoinMetrics that alleges they secretly pre-mined and vested themselves with BTCP coins and failed to disclose these… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 5:11 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A sophisticated actor, or actors, is presently using an “evolving” type of crypto-jacking software to infect private systems from Mexico to India to Norway to Israel, commandeering them for the mining of Monero, a popular “privacy cryptocurrency” difficult to trace. The malware, called “KingMiner,” has been… Read More

September 29, 2018 @ 3:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zcoin creators say it has become the first “privacy coin” to adopt Dandelion to provide a higher degree of anonymity than provided in many other cryptocurrencies. Dandelion seeks to provide network privacy that further conceals the IP address of someone broadcasting a transaction on the blockchain…. Read More