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Bitcoin No Longer the Fraudster’s Favorite

January 25, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

Persistent complaints from users about slow processing, excessive fees and the volatility-exhaustion that defines the currency at present are coming to a fore. It’s a sentiment that sees users looking elsewhere for other, perhaps “better” cryptocurrencies. Difficult to Rob Hodler’s A somewhat obtuse sign of this movement is that cybercriminals...

Edward Snowden Loves Zcash, Or At Least the Tech Behind It

December 21, 2017 by Robert DeVoe at Altcoins, Commentary, News

In a Tweet that was published on December 19, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden made several comments about his preference and respect for Zcash. Specifically, he noted that the privacy technology behind it would be something that could "change everything if it succeeds." What is ZCash? Zcash is a cryptocurrency...

Linkability of Zcash Transactions Study Precipitates Debate on “Opt-in Privacy”

December 9, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, News, Tech

On December 4, new research showed that zcash transactions are largely unshielded and linkable. The paper sparked interesting discussions in the Twittersphere between monero and zcash advocates. While known for a long time by many, the research quantified the risk borne by users due to the opt-in nature of zcash’s...

GPU Mining may be Making a Comeback Relative to ASIC

November 28, 2017 by Landon Mutch at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Mining, News

For many years now, Bitcoin mining has been dominated by the Application-specific Integrated Chip (ASIC), and long gone are the days of mining Bitcoin for profit with a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), or even a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). However, thanks to increasingly popular altcoins...

Good News for Privacy on Bitcoin and Ethereum

November 22, 2017 by Christoph Bergmann at Bitcoin, Ethereum, News

The past few months saw the development of some new, exciting privacy technologies for both Bitcoin and Ethereum; Confidential Transactions, Reusable Payment Codes, zk-SNARKs and Ring Signatures. This revives the hope that cryptocurrency will give humanity financial privacy. In case you didn’t know, privacy and cryptocurrencies are in most cases...

A JPMorgan sign with Quorum written on it has half of the sign as invisible with a blockchain coming out of it as Quorum platform integrates zk-SNARKs privacy feature

JPMorgan’s Quorum Integrates zk-SNARKs For Enhanced Privacy

October 26, 2017 by Joseph Young at Blockchain, Business, News

Leading public and permissioned blockchain networks including Ethereum and JPMorgan’s Quorum have integrated anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash’s zk-SNARKs cryptography system to enhance privacy measures for the benefit of users, businesses, and developers. Zcash and its Practical Implementation of zk-SNARKs, a Privacy-Focused Cryptographic System Upon its initial launch in October, Zcash was...

What is Zcash And is it a Good Investment?

October 23, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Cryptocyclopedia

Privacy-centric cryptocurrencies have gained in popularity in the past 12 months as it has become clear that bitcoin’s pseudonymity does not provide enough transaction anonymity for privacy-focused users. One of the most popular privacy-centric cryptocurrencies in the market today is zcash. In this guide, you will learn what Zcash is...

The blacked out three storey building of Paralelni Polis in Prague is shown, contrasting from the buildings beside it, a yellow impossible triangle with a flame bursting through it and the slogan Liberate! is shown on top of the building for Hacker's Congress '17

Hacker’s Congress at Paralelní Polis: Highlights from the Three-day Event

October 9, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Tech

The Hacker’s Congress took place over October 6-8 at Prague’s Paralelní Polis, a hub for Cryptocurrency, Technology and Cryptoanarchy. Here we provide some of the highlights from the three-day event, reviewing three talks from each day as well as links to videos. Day 1 Foundations of Internet Money One of...

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

Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Outlook September 25

September 25, 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) September has sure been volatile for bitcoin, one month later perhaps than many were expecting with the UASF...

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...

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