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18 Months In, Few People Use, Mine or Buy Privacy Coin Grin
Despite launching with considerable fanfare in early 2019, grin, the first cryptocurrency to test privacy protocol MimbleWimble, is showing no signs of life.
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DISCUSSION: How Can Public Blockchains Have Privacy?
On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now.
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What's Really Private in Crypto? Research on Grin Raises Questions
Following a report last week on the anonymity features of grin, one big question emerged: What is privacy in crypto, anyways?
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Privacy Coin Beam Conducts First Hard Fork Away From ASICs
Launching in January of this year, beam is one of two first implementations of the Mimblewimble privacy protocol
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Grin Cryptocurrency Executes First Hard Fork
Wednesday's planned system upgrade for the Grin blockchain tweaked a mining algorithm.
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Privacy Crypto Grin's First Hard Fork Planned for July
This summer will see the first network upgrade for Grin, a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that uses the technology Mimblewimble.
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Privacy Cryptocurrency Grin Receives Mysterious $300K Bitcoin Donation
The developers behind the cryptocurrency project Grin are reporting that they have received an anonymous donation of 50 BTC.
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Privacy Cryptocurrency Grin Votes to Fund Third Full-Time Developer
The community behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency Grin has recently decided to fund its third full-time developer.
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Privacy Cryptocurrency Beam Experiences Blockchain Stoppage
Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Beam said Monday morning that its blockchain had stopped. A fix has now been committed, it says [updated].
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'Critical' Vulnerability in Beam Wallet Could Have Put Funds At Risk, Devs Say After Fix
The "critical vulnerability" found by developers of the mimblewimble privacy coin Beam is said to have put user funds at possible risk of being stolen.
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