Zcash (ZEC)

A privacy-based technology known as Mimble Wimble has been integrated into various privacy tokens since last January. The trouble is, it may not be as private as people originally thought.Mimble Wimble Isn’t Doing Enough to Keep Your Identity a SecretA new study shows that the first privacy coins to implement the technology are ones referred to as Grin and Beam, both of which are very new and are hardly being used at all at press time. This could be why the technology is so easily...

Verhilft Bakkt Bitcoin zur Massenadaption? Vor einer Weile kündigte Bakkt an, Bitcoin-Futures für US-Dollar anzubieten. So wollten sie mit der CME Group konkurrieren. Bakkt ging mit dem Projekt am 23. September online und der Bitcoin-Kurs brach prompt zusammen. Dabei handelte es sich um einen der schlimmsten Tage für Bitcoin in diesem Jahr: Am ersten Tag wurden nur 71 Verträge...

Privacy-centric Zclassic (ZCL) is skyrocketing after its founder Rhett Creighton decided to “put more ZCL in the hands of people.” Rhett Creighton offers 1,000 ZCL to his followers. | Source: TwitterIn the last 24 hours, ZCL jumped over 60% to hit a high of $0.45. The bullish momentum appears to be correlated with the increasing network activity this cryptocurrency has seen as more people join Creighton’s campaign. Zclassic is Trending Up Zclassic is a fork of Zcash (ZEC) that uses a...

In one sudden and swift move payments giant PayPal has cut off the thousands of performers on adult behemoth Pornhub that depended on the payment service to receive their payments. The pornographic platform indicated this in a blog post in the help section on the website. They wrote:“We are all devastated by PayPal’s decision to stop payouts to over a hundred thousand performers who rely on them for their livelihoods.”This, of course, has fundamentally changed the way and manner in which the...

In September, one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency exchanges Binance launched its U.S. arm, initially allowing U.S0. citizens to trade 13 cryptocurrency pairs across Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin cash (BCH), Binance Coin (BNB), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), XRP, and the Tether stablecoin (USDT). Since the launch, only one month has passed, but Binance.US has already demonstrated incredible results: its daily trading volume has exceeded $15 million.Besides, the U.S. arm of Binance has...

Blockchain technology is predominantly associated with crypto. As a distributed ledger system, it is designed to ensure transactions are properly recorded and that there is solid, truthful evidence of money, assets or other property transferring from one party to the next.What Is the Power of Blockchain?What not a lot of people realize, however, is that blockchain has a lot of other uses that don’t necessarily apply to finance. Perhaps the big stickler is that blockchain can potentially serve...

The Litecoin Summit is unfolding in Las Vegas, and MimbleWimble is center stage. Litecoin is on its way to becoming a privacy coin, which for Charlie Lee is about fungibility. The privacy push is a risky one that could cost the coin exchange listings in some countries. It’s no secret that Litecoin wants to become a privacy coin. Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee made that clear when he revealed a change in direction for the project, chief among which involved partnering with a Grin...

Global investment platform eToro has announced its new sentiment-based crypto portfolio offering called TheTIE-Long-Only. For this, eToro has joined hands with a data analytics platform The TIE which can formulate an algorithm-based investment strategy.The input data for this sentiment-driven trading platform will be Twitter mentions. The social media platform Twitter has been the main platform for discussing crypto activities. Several popular analysts and companies share their trading...

YouHodler verlegt diese Wochen den Hauptsitz ins Bitcoin-Land Schweiz nach Lausanne. Gutschein weiter unten im Artikel. YouHodler ist eine FinTech-Plattform, die Kryptodarlehen auf Fiat- und Stablecoin-Basis anbietet. Wie so viele erfolgreiche Startups die anfangen richtig Geld zu verdienen, verlegte Youhodler sienen Hauptsitz ins Bitcoin-Land Schweiz, genauer nach Lausanne. Seit August hat die Seite einige neue Funktionen eingeführt,...

In the latest blog post announcement, Coinbase highlighted a possible addition of 17 new cryptos to its platform including Telegram. As part of the exploratory process, users may see public-facing APIs and other signs that the exchange is conducting engineering work to potentially support these assets.According to that post from the exchange, Coinbase plans to add Dfinity, Filecoin, Handshake, Avalanche, Celo, Chia, Coda, Nervos, Oasis, Orchid, Kadena, Mobilecoin, Near, Solana, Spacemesh,...