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How To Keep Your Bitcoin Investment as Private as Possible

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...

Magic Wizard Harry Potter MimbleWimble Bitcoin Hogwarts Blockchain

From Hogwarts to Cryptography: What Is MimbleWimble?

March 13, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Blockchain, Guides, News, Tech

Privacy and scalability are two of the most prevailent topics in the blockchain industry. Bitcoin, the brainchild of Satoshi Nakamoto offers a decentralized, peer-to-peer, and transparent alternative to fiat currency. One of the major reasons why bitcoin is imbibed with these characteristics is because they are a polar opposite to...

Zcash (ZEC) Rebrands, Becomes Electric Coin Company

February 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, News

In a bid to foster more clarity the distinction between the altcoin and the parent company, the creators of Zcash (ZEC), a privacy-centric altcoin, have changed its name to the Electric Coin Company, according to a blog post on February 22, 2019. Zcash Gets a New Name As stated in its...

Private No More: U.S. Authorities Developing Techniques to Track Cryptocurrencies Like Monero and Zcash

December 5, 2018 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins, Crime, Finance, News, Regulation

A pre-solicitation document published by the Department of Homeland Security’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), on November 30, 2018, hints that the U.S. authorities might be on their way to deanonymize private cryptocurrency transactions. This development might have a tremendous impact on privacy-centric digital currencies like Zcash (ZEC), and...

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

ZCash “Sapling” Upgrade Arrives on Coin’s Second Anniversary, Transaction Speed and Scaling Boosted

October 29, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Blockchain, News, Platform, Tech

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency ZCash executed a hard fork and network upgrade on October 28, 2018, on its second anniversary. According to ZCash’s blog post, the Sapling activation will introduce new shielded addresses which will boost ZCash's performance by improving the network’s transaction speed. ZCash Marks New Milestone In Roadmap ZCash activated...

Six Reasons Why Privacy Coins Are Not Just For Criminals

October 7, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at News

Privacy-centric digital currencies are coming under more scrutiny as their use on dark web marketplaces is on the rise. Law enforcement agencies and several financial regulators are concerned that anonymous digital currencies could be used to facilitate terrorist financing and money laundering in a de facto untraceable manner. Japan, for...

Winklevoss-Owned Gemini Exchange Announces Addition of Zcash to its Trading Platform

May 14, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Finance, News

The hype leading up to cryptocurrency-focused conference Consensus is second to none, with crypto markets historically experiencing bull runs in the days after, and during, the event. The bullish sentiment can be attributed to a plethora of positive news, related or unrelated, released in the course of the event, which...

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...

The Shadow Brokers Release a Price Adjustment to Data Dumps

October 20, 2017 by Liam J Kelly at Altcoins, News, Tech

The Shadow Brokers release another announcement via social media site Steemit addressing a price adjustment, ThePeoples, The Equation Group, and Matt Suiche. Price Adjustment On October 16, the notorious hacker group The Shadow Brokers published a price adjustment for “all current, future, and past data dumps.” The data dumps referring...

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