#Zcash

Zcash is Blazing a Trail to the Future of Cryptography

September 20, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Altcoins, News

Zcash developers have made a significant breakthrough in the mathematical development of the proving systems for the shielded addresses that fuel Zcash by introducing a new variation of elliptic curve cryptography which is more efficient and speeds up the hashing process tremendously. This new development will be included with other...

Syscoin Begins The Next Phase of its Evolution with Blockmarket, A Decentralized Marketplace Wallet

September 16, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Altcoins, Blockchain, News

Blockchain Foundry Inc., the company behind the Syscoin cryptocurrency, has released Blockmarket Desktop v1.0, an upgraded replacement for the Syscoin QT wallet, which integrates a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling any type of product. With Blockmarket Desktop, Blockchain Foundry moves into the next phase in the evolution of its...

Bitcoin Anonymity Concerns Boost Privacy-Centric Altcoins: BTCManager’s Week in Review August 28

August 28, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at News, News Digest

In the past week, bitcoin’s often wrongly cited anonymity, or rather the lack thereof has been pushed to the forefront of user’s minds. It came to light that the IRS is using Chainalysis’ bitcoin transaction tracking application to identify bitcoin tax cheats and as Princeton researcher published a paper that...

WikiLeaks Accepts Zcash: Why It Is Raising Eyebrows

August 9, 2017 by Michael Scott at Altcoins, News

In a move viewed as highly questionable within some cryptocurrency and libertarian circles, non-profit media group WikiLeaks, founded in 2006 by Australian computer programmer Julian Assange announced that it is now accepting donations via the privacy-centric cryptocurrency zcash. WikiLeaks recently revealed on Twitter its intent to utilize this new payment...

AlphaBay’s Downtime Unnerves Users: Another Exit Scam?

July 10, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, Bitcoin, News, Tech

On July 5, the largest dark net marketplace globally disappeared, with vendors and buyers unable to access their accounts and any bitcoin or cryptocurrency associated with it. Five days later, on July 10, there is no sign of the marketplace coming back. As the largest dark net market, even dwarfing...

GPU Producer Sapphire Launches New Graphics Cards For Crypto Mining

June 30, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Ethereum, Mining, News, Tech

Cryptocurrency mining is making a big comeback driven by the impressive rally in digital currencies in the spring of 2017. To benefit from this increase in demand for hardware, technology company Sapphire has launched a series of new graphics cards, the first of such specifically targeted at cryptocurrency miners. Hong...

ZCash, Ether, and Monero Miners Can Now Use Nvidia Pascal GPUs

June 17, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Ethereum, Mining, News

The impressive rally in digital currencies in the past three months has given the cryptocurrency mining industry a boost. Demand for mining equipment is higher than ever as individuals and companies are looking to profit from the increased value of many cryptocurrencies through mining. As BTCManager reported on June 9,...

Digital Currency is Driving AMD Shares to Skyrocket

June 9, 2017 by Nuno Menezes at Altcoins, News, Tech

On June 6, AMD shares went up more than seven percent after the company revealed that its sales volume were skyrocketing mainly because of the direct influence of Digital Currencies, such as Litecoin. The stock was the top performer in the S&P 500 on the day. It seems that the...

A Bitcoin Fountain with all kinds of other currency coming out of it

Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Outlook June 6

June 6, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Cryptocurrency Market Outlook

BTCManager's Weekly Cryptocurrency Outlook highlights the price action and technical indicators on a long-term basis to identify the best opportunities in the largest cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, ether, and others. BTC-USD (Bitstamp) Bitcoin goes for its eighth week of consecutive gains, nearing the psychological $3000 level on June 6. As...

Shadow Brokers’ Response Team Cancels its Crowdfunded Bid for NSA Exploit Tools

June 5, 2017 by Nuno Menezes at Altcoins, News, Tech

On May 30, a group of cybersecurity researchers launched a crowdfunding campaign in the hopes of raising $25,000 with which they were planning to pay a hacker group called the Shadow Brokers for hacking tools that were supposedly taken from the NSA. The effort raised $3,906.62 in 36 hours. However,...

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