Tagged: privacy coins

June 23, 2023 @ 11:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monero’s encryption tech, which makes use of signatures from several different users to conceal who has carried out a monetary transfer, has reportedly not been hacked by any nation (at least it has not been widely reported). As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the… Read More

April 19, 2022 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CipherTrace, a Mastercard Company, has reported a significant increase in the number of payments “made to ransomware groups in 2021.” The growth in this criminal enterprise “is so large that the first six months of 2021 saw payments that matched the whole of 2020.” With… Read More

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

November 22, 2019 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Glenn Austin, the chief financial officer at Dash Core Group (creator of DASH or Digital Cash), a major digital currency platform. Austin, a former VP at Morgan Stanley Investment Management who has worked at other big Wall Street names like… Read More

November 18, 2019 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

MimbleWimble, a privacy-oriented blockchain that seeks to cover users’ tracks, is said not to be very private at all, according to a blog post. Other privacy coins have gained popularity as much of the early usage of crypto was because of its ability to complete… Read More

October 27, 2019 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A number of concerns have been raised by digital currency exchanges regarding whether certain cryptocurrencies comply with relevant Financial Task Force (FATF) guidelines, including the “travel rule.”  Dash (DASH), one of the largest privacy-oriented crypto assets, has been a popular target for some digital asset… Read More

September 21, 2019 @ 11:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korean digital asset exchange Upbit announced on September 20 that it will delist several privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies including Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and ZCash (ZEC). Upbit’s management noted in a blog post that it would also cease trading for PIVX, a privacy-focused proof-of-stake (PoS) currency… Read More

September 16, 2019 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The South Korean arm of Malta-based digital asset exchange OKEx announced that it will no longer support five major cryptocurrencies due to new international financial regulations. OKEx Korea’s management noted that it would suspend trading for privacy-oriented digital currencies including Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and… Read More

March 22, 2019 @ 3:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

One of the world’s largest cryptomining companies, Bitmain, has announced the release of a new crypto mining machine it claims is three times faster than its previous model. The new “Antminer Z11” is designed for the dedicated mining of cryptocurrencies that use the Equihash algorithm… Read More

December 4, 2018 @ 2:15 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Department is seeking proposals from contractors skilled in blockchain forensics, data analysis, and information sharing. More specifically, the DHS/SBIR is satisfied with its ability to investigate transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain but seeks to be able… Read More