“The delisting of privacy coins from regulated exchanges was the inevitable escalation in government attempts towards totalitarian financial surveillance.”, Andreas Antonopoulos stated on Twitter, following the latest announcement from Bittrex. The Crypto exchange announced on Friday that it will be delisting Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and Dash (DASH) on Jan 15. While the Exchange did...Read More
Many central banks around the world are now engaged in some type of CBDC exploration. Time and again, they have claimed that digital currencies could provide far better oversight into monetary movements. Governments that seek to combat money laundering and corruption have all come to the conclusion that CBDCs can help them trace illicit activities. ...Read More
Justin Sun, the founder and CEO of TRON, has announced that a TRON-based privacy coin is one step closer to reality. TRON initially announced plans for private transactions in January 2019. Since then, TRON added the feature to its testnet in July and opened it to beta testers in December. This week, Sun hinted at...Read More
Since the inception of Bitcoin, governments have tried to keep track of all the transactions taking place on the public blockchain. As the years progressed, authorities have shown a distaste for cryptocurrency mixing applications like Coinjoin. On Dec. 19, a Binance customer couldn’t withdraw his bitcoin because the exchange told him he used the mixing...Read More
Grin Market Opportunity Grin is a privacy focused coin, which places it in the same sector as Monero, Zcash and the like. By protecting, sender, receiver, and transaction data information, the project aims to become digital cash in the true sense of the term. This is a $36.8T market. Just like its privacy brethren, Grin...Read More
Virtual assets have evolved over the past decade. The entire concept began as an idea of a financial asset for a peer-to-peer transaction. However, over time, different crypto-projects have entered the cryptospace, with the likes of stablecoins, exchange-launched tokens, dApp tokens and privacy coins gaining popularity quickly. The working principle of privacy coin hardly differs...Read More
Street cred, meet Decred. For reasons we don’t entirely follow, the crypto OG has released a short-form rap track to help announce its new privacy credentials. Because hell, why not? And to our Ginuwine astonishment, it’s actually pretty damn good. For the lyrically-minded among you, the poetry is reproduced below. Decred (DCR) has today unveiled...Read More
Since January, Charlie Lee has been teasing at plans to introduce confidential transactions to Litecoin. However, the announcement was followed by a long stretch of radio silence, and followers were left wondering if they would ever see the promised privacy features. Hope was restored on Tuesday, when Lee announced that a new developer has joined...Read More
Edward Snowden is always the main event, no matter where he talks. It’s no surprise that the NSA whistleblower was the main event at the Web3 Berlin Summit, held in the former radio broadcasting center of the German Democratic Republic. Speaking for an hour via video-link from Moscow, Snowden appeared vaguely Orwellian on two large...Read More
