Zcash (ZEC)

In nowadays world, privacy is everything. Privacy is a worthy asset in the world where almost anyone who is internet-connected, can find each and every data possible. In crypto space, privacy seems to be even more. Every day more and more companies are becoming aware of how important it is to ensure privacy for their customers. Zk-SNARK is a technology of a so-called of zero-knowledge cryptography. TRON Foundation and its founder Justin Sun seem to be starting to get it. Reportedly, Sun...

With the long-awaited Istanbul hard fork now live on the Ethereum blockchain, the network will undergo an emergency hard fork in two weeks to resolve an old issue that seems to be pressurizing the entire ecosystem. The Istanbul update aims to solve issues like rebalancing gas costs, more privacy, and interoperability with cryptocurrencies like Zcash. You can read what to expect from the latest improvements here.While the Istanbul hard fork introduces new features, Ethereum developers made a...

The outsiders may believe fancy Telegram graphs showing Bitcoin‘s decentralization levels and metrics. However, many of that stats supply data from a parallel reality. Because you cannot claim full decentralization when the majority of the industry is maintained by the same three to five companies. The will of the investors, not the cyberpunk spirit, changes the price of coins or destroys companies.There are at least seven influential people in the crypto space, including investors and...

Privacy coin attacked for "dumping on investors". Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin - also an advisor for Zcash (ZEC) - says coin is exploring uncharted terrain. Market cap - but not coin price - up 40,000% since launch. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin leapt to the defence of privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) after a prominent crypto influencer branded it a “failure.” Zcash wields a market cap of over $250 million, and is the second highest capped privacy coin at time of writing, behind Monero...

Great news for the Ethereum community: the network’s Istanbul improvement has been successfully completed. Expected to increase the speed of the Ethereum network and its gas efficiency, the hard fork was activated at block number 9,069,000. #Ethereum's #Istanbul network upgrade is now live! Congratulations to everyone who worked to make it happen. Want to learn more? Check out details on Istanbul's included changes here: https://t.co/KIMLb0ujce — Ethereum (@ethereum) December 8, 2019...

Two of the biggest shopping events in the world are Black Friday and Cyber Monday. On both days, merchants and retailers considerably crash their prices so much that it causes such a frenzy among shoppers. In many cases, people wait till any of these days to make purchases they could have made at other times in the year, taking advantage of significant price slashes – sometimes up to 90% on selected items with selected retailers. As Amazon’s Cyber Monday begins and people begin to shop,...

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...