Privacy Coin

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.

Tech  ·  6 April 2021

Privacy Coin Firo Temporarily Disables Protocol to Investigate ‘Suspicious Transactions’

Core devs have activated their emergency switch to temporarily disable Lelantus.

Tech  ·  26 February 2021
CoinFlash

Privacy Coin Firo Currently Experiencing 51% Attack

Users should not make transactions at this time.

Tech  ·  20 January 2021
Privacy

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.

News  ·  2 July 2020
Zcash

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.

News  ·  15 January 2020
Monero

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.

People  ·  18 December 2019
Exchanges

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.

Policy & regulation  ·  16 September 2019
Altcoins

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

Markets  ·  15 August 2019
Monero

Monero and Zcash Conferences Showcase Their Differences (And Links)

The future of privacy coins relies on technologists getting the governance setup right. Here are both sides of the zcash debate.

Tech  ·  30 June 2019
News

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.

Tech  ·  7 May 2019
Monero

Privacy Crypto Monero Celebrates Its 5th Birthday

The privacy coin Monero celebrated yesterday five years of existence.

Tech  ·  19 April 2019
BitGo

Crypto Security Startup BitGo to Custody Zcash

Cryptocurrency security startup BitGo says it is adding privacy coin zcash to its supported crypto assets.

Business  ·  25 July 2018