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New OpenBazaar Release Provides Altcoin Integration

December 23, 2016 by Joseph Young at Altcoins, Business, News

OB1, the commercial company behind OpenBazaar, announced on December 20 the release of version 1.1.10, featuring a partnership with instantaneous altcoin exchange ShapeShift. The deal immediately provides users the opportunity to purchase items on OpenBazaar with altcoins like Monero and ZCash that provide increased privacy to users. For an excellent...

‘Ethical Hackers’ Hijack Zcash with the Creation of Ebitz

November 22, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, News, Tech

A group of European ‘ethical hackers’ have taken steps to launch a newer, improved version of Zcash that addresses many of the hotly-debated drawbacks of the privacy-centric cryptocurrency. Two significant changes to the Zcash protocol have been made and the launch of the improved version, named Ebitz, is due November...

Bitcoin Bounces, Monero Still Rising; BTCManager’s Week in Review Nov. 14

November 14, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at News, News Digest

The presidential race in the US is now over and ended with a victory for the Republicans, driving a short-term jump in Bitcoin’s price. Of course, uncertainty lies ahead, but the response from investors is pretty optimistic with regard to a Trump administration, with stocks and the US Dollar moving...

Monero Attracts Mainstream Media After ZCash Decline & Controversial Launch

November 11, 2016 by Joseph Young at Altcoins, Commentary, News

Prior to the launch of ZCash, the majority of the cryptocurrency community seemed positive that Monero would lose its title of “the leading privacy and anonymity-focused cryptocurrency” against the overhyped and highly anticipated ZCash. Roughly two weeks after the debut of ZCash, it is becoming more evident that Monero still...

Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Outlook Nov. 2

November 2, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Cryptocurrency Market Outlook

Bitcoin broke above the key psychological $700 level last week, shifting trader’s attention to BTC-USD away from other cryptocurrency pairs. Also, the hype surrounding Zcash also saw volumes decline for altcoins. The dwindling interest in altcoins saw a huge sell-off, with some altcoins, such as Factoid and Monero, experiencing a...

Zcash: The Crazy Launch Obfuscates an Interesting Technology

October 31, 2016 by Christoph Bergmann at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

Accompanied by a strong media campaign, the privacy-centric cryptocurrency Zcash launched recently on October 28. The crazy price jumps and crashes drowned out the fact that the launch of Zcash could mark the start of an interesting experiment in cryptocurrencies. After more than three years of talk, research, and development...

Zcash Futures Reach All-Time High as Genesis Block Nears

October 20, 2016 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, Bitcoin, News

With the Zcash currency launch just over one week away on October 28, the team behind the project have shared their vision on how to evolve Zcash as well as the hardware requirements for running the ‘Sprout’ release, allowing anyone to mine the cryptocurrency. Zcash is based on the code...

DevCon2 Update: Zcash Integration, Scaling, and Adoption

September 23, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Ethereum, Finance, News

With DevCon2, the yearly convention focused on furthering Ethereum and its applications, coming to a close, we have been left with countless headlines regarding the development of Ethereum. With Microsoft being a premier sponsor, as well as having many other sponsors, many organizations are starting to realize the potential Ethereum’s...

Buterin and Todd Debate Over Zcash, SegWit

September 11, 2016 by Joseph Young at Commentary, News

Two weeks ago, Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd suggested that the ethics of Zcash, a decentralized privacy-focused open-source cryptocurrency, “would be a lot simpler” if it was proposed as a soft-fork to the Bitcoin network as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP). In response to Todd’s statement, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin...

Zcash Generates Excitement in Crypto Community

August 9, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Commentary, News

Bitcoin receives a lot of mainstream press that describes it as “an anonymous currency”. The truth is, pseudo-anonymous is a better description. While transactions are hidden behind seemingly random strings of numbers, anyone with any knowledge of the workings of Bitcoin can easily use the blockchain to find the source...

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