#Zcash News

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...

Parity Launches the First Alternative Zcash Client

June 18, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Development, News

Zcash (ZEC), the privacy-centric distributed ledger technology (DLT) based digital asset created by Zooko Wilcox in 2016, has announced the release of Zebra, the first Zcash client written entirely in the Rust programming language. Rust is developed by Parity Technologies and will function as an alternative to Zcash, allowing developers...

Report: Discrepancy in Ripple’s Escrow Disclosures

May 18, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, News, Ripple

Deviations in Ripple's escrow disclosure have arisen in a report by Coin Metrics on May 16, 2019. This information came to light less than a month after Ripple released its Q1 disclosure report. On-Chain Analysis Coin Metrics, a data and analytics provider, has found discrepancies in the escrow released on a monthly...

ZCash Publishes Q2 2019 Transparency Report

May 15, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins, Business, Finance, News

The Electric Coin Company that runs ZCash (ZEC) has published a transparency report highlighting key figures and expenses they incur on a monthly basis. The report, which was published on their blog on May 14, 2019, comes amid demand for more transparent disclosures from cryptocurrency firms. Financial Status and Outflows...

Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP Weekly Market Update November 11, 2019

Market Update and Ripple XRP Price Analysis: April 22, 2019

April 22, 2019 by Georgi Hristov at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Market Outlook, Price Analysis, Ripple

The total crypto market cap lost $4.20 billion of its value since Friday, April 22, and now stands at $176.8. Top ten cryptocurrencies registered are all in red for the 24-hour period with Cardano (ADA) and Litecoin (LTC) being the worst performers with 5.2 and 6.4 percent of losses respectively....

How To Keep Your Bitcoin Investment as Private as Possible

Crypto Privacy Part 2: Zcash vs. Monero

March 18, 2019 by Toju Ometoruwa at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocyclopedia, Development

In the first few years of Bitcoin’s existence, one of the features that attracted the most attention from early advocates was the ability to make private transactions. Bitcoin’s Privacy Woes In a financial system where banks, businesses and government authorities heavily monitor consumer purchases, the ability for one to vanish...

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