#Zcash News

TRONZ Foundation Aims for a Guinness World Record with the Largest Privacy Protocol

January 17, 2020 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

TRONZ Foundation, a team of TRON (TRX) community developers, is currently working on the largest privacy protocol dubbed Multi-party Computation (MPC) Torch, to set a new Guinness world record and place blockchain technology in the consciousness of the masses, according to a blog post on January 17, 2020. TRONZ Foundation...

Justin Sun Announces Beta-Testing of TRON Shielded Transactions

December 18, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins

On December 17, 2019, decentralized web blockchain project TRON CEO Justin Sun, tweeted that the initiative is set to beta-test its shielded transactions which hide the sender and receiver’s addresses, transaction input and output, and the amount transacted. TRON Jumping on the Privacy Bandwagon Despite global authorities showing apprehension toward...

Zcash (ZEC) Blossom Upgrade Promises Scalability, Speed and Capacity

December 11, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

The Zcash Foundation, the nonprofit organization in charge of privacy-centric crypto Zcash (ZEC), in collaboration with Electric Coin Co., is set to launch the Blossom hard fork today December 11, 2019 (22:06 UTC+00:00) at block height 653600. The Zcash Blossom upgrade is expected to bring more scalability, capacity, and speed...

Zcash (ZEC) Pumps $40k into Research Organization to Boost Anonymous Payments

December 4, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Zcash Foundation, the nonprofit organization in charge of privacy-centric altcoin, Zcash (ZEC) has donated 1044.41369 ZEC ($40,000 USD) to non-profit Canadian group, Open Privacy Research Society, and the funding will be used to implement new initiatives that would further boost the growth of the Zcash ecosystem, according to a blog...

As ETH 2.0 Edges Closer, Ethereum Prepares for Istanbul Hard Fork

November 20, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Ethereum

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a network upgrade, or a hard fork on approximately December 7, 2019, at block number 9,069,000. All node operators and miners are requested to upgrade their node clients to account for variable block times. Users holding ETH on exchanges or wallets need not take...

Zcash (ZEC) Warn Users Against Fake Wallet on GitHub

October 21, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Zcash (ZEC), one of the established privacy-protecting altcoins, has warned users against a fake version of its native ZEC Wallet on GitHub. The team says the fake wallet has an entirely different URL from the official ZEC Wallet repository on GitHub and may contain potentially harmful malware, according to a...

Privacy Cryptocurrency Matrix Spreadsheet Compares Top Privacy Projects

Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Korea Removes Privacy Altcoins

September 16, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

According to an official announcement made by the South Korean branch of OKEx, the popular exchange will delist five privacy coins as early as October 10, 2019. Complications for Privacy Coins Trading of Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), ZCash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Super Bitcoin (SBTC) on OKEx Korea will be...

Electric Coin Company Exits ZCash Foundation Trademark Agreement

September 3, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

The Electric Coin Company, a private entity set up to develop and fund the ZCash protocol, has broken off negotiations with the ZCash Foundation to share the protocol's trademark, September 2, 2019. ZCash has been criticized for years for their constant siphoning of funds from the network's block subsidy to...

Peter Todd having a finger pointed at him accusingly

Peter Todd Accused of Sexual Abuse, ZCash Founder Testifies

July 17, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at News

Peter Todd filed a defamation suit against Sarah Michelle Reichwein a.k.a Isis Lovecruft, after the former accused him of sexually harassing her. In support of her argument, Zooko Wilcox, founder of ZCash and the Electric Coin Company, testified as an acquaintance to both as well as the second complainant who claims...

White House Issues Circular on Deep Web Opioid Market, Targets Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin Reigns Supreme on the Dark Side of the Internet, Report Claims

July 2, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Bitcoin

Citing research by crypto-security firm Chainalysis, Bloomberg reported on July 2, 2019, that the use of bitcoin (BTC) for dark web transactions could exceed $1 billion figure for the year 2019. $515 Million Worth of BTC Already Spent Cryptocurrencies and the dark web share a long and significant past. The...

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