What Is Zcash? The Privacy Coin Explained
Zcash has seen ZKP breakthroughs, its first halving and progress toward further scalability. This feature is part of CoinDesk's Privacy Week.
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Jan 26, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. UTC
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A16z Leads $28M Round for Privacy Coin Iron Fish
Other investors in the round included Sequoia, Electric Capital and MetaStable, as well as Terra co-founder Do Kwon and Anchorage co-founder Nathan McCauley.
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Nov 30, 2021 at 8:02 p.m. UTC
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US Nuclear Engineer, Wife Charged With Sale of Naval Secrets for Crypto
Justin Ehrenhofer, monero community member, discusses the specifics of an alleged espionage case: A nuclear engineer employed by the U.S. Department of the Navy and his wife were accused of attempting to sell restricted data in exchange for the privacy-centric crypto monero.
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Oct 12, 2021 at 5:35 p.m. UTC
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New Privacy Coin Iron Fish Launches Testnet With $5.3M in Funding
Iron Fish is betting there is still a demand for privacy coins in a crowded market.
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Apr 6, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. UTC
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Privacy Coin Firo Temporarily Disables Protocol to Investigate 'Suspicious Transactions'
Core devs have activated their emergency switch to temporarily disable Lelantus.
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Feb 26, 2021 at 8:26 p.m. UTC
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Privacy Coin Firo in Midst of 'Hash War' With 51% Attacker
From a Proof-of-Work perspective, both chains are valid. Which will win?
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Jan 20, 2021 at 2:27 p.m. UTC
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The IRS Wants to Know More About Privacy-Enhancing Crypto Coins, Tools
America's tax collector is laying the groundwork for a possible assault on privacy-enhancing cryptocurrency technologies.
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Jul 2, 2020 at 5:06 p.m. UTC
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Electric Coin Company SDK Paves Way for Shielded Zcash Payments on Mobile
The Electric Coin Company has released development tools to help build mobile wallets able to support shielded payments, which obfuscate addresses and transaction amounts.
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Jan 15, 2020 at 10:20 p.m. UTC
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Monero's 'Fluffypony' Steps Down as Lead Maintainer of Privacy Coin Project
Riccardo Spagni, better known as "Fluffypony," will relinquish his day-to-day leadership role in the privacy coin project.
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Dec 18, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
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OKEX Korea Drops 5 Privacy Cryptocurrencies Citing FATF Rules
The Korean arm of the exchange has dropped support for privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies including monero, zcash and dash.
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Sep 16, 2019 at 10:01 a.m. UTC
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