Privacy Coins

Cake Wallet Brings Readable Usernames to Its Crypto Wallets

Unstoppable Domains will let Cake Wallet’s 150,000 users create usernames under the [NAME].crypto format.

Tech  ·  11 August 2021

FATF Report on Extreme Right Financing Highlights Cryptocurrency Use

“Some [extreme right wing] groups have used so called ‘privacy coins,’” the FATF report states.

Policy & regulation  ·  30 June 2021
Privacy

We Have Entered the Age of Anonymous Crypto

Spurred by an information crisis and compounding global unrest, privacy has entered public consciousness.

People  ·  25 January 2021
Privacy

Privacy Coin Firo Launches ‘Privacy by Default’ Protocol on Mainnet

Lelantus introduces “on-by-default” privacy while also allowing partial redemptions of Firo’s burn-and-redeem model.

Tech  ·  14 January 2021
Monero

Bittrex to Delist ‘Privacy Coins’ Monero, Dash and Zcash

While Bittrex gave no reason for the removals, exchanges around the world have been moving to delist coins that seek to hide the activity of their users.

Markets  ·  1 January 2021
Exchanges

Privacy Coin Advocates Persevere Amid Multiple Crypto Exchange Delistings

As delisting for privacy coins spreads, advocates argue that not only should regulators want them on exchanges but they should tell exchanges what they need to do to be compliant.

Policy & regulation  ·  11 December 2020
Zcash

ShapeShift Delists Privacy Coin Zcash Over Regulatory Concerns

XMR, DASH and ZEC "were delisted at the same time for the same reason – to further derisk the company from a regulatory standpoint."

Business  ·  10 November 2020
Monero

Monero Leads Rally in Privacy Coins, Rising to Two-Year Highs

Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies jumped on Monday after several countries called for access to encryption software.

Markets  ·  12 October 2020
Mining

Zcash Latest Hard Fork ‘Heartwood’ Makes Mining Private

Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked at block height 903,000 in a planned network update known as “Heartwood.”

Tech  ·  16 July 2020
Chainalysis

Crypto Forensics Firm Chainalysis Adds Tracing Support for Zcash, Dash

The blockchain intelligence firm says it has added zcash and dash to its transaction-tracing products.

Business  ·  9 June 2020
Privacy Coins

18 Months In, Few People Use, Mine or Buy Privacy Coin Grin

Despite launching with considerable fanfare in early 2019, grin, the first cryptocurrency to test privacy protocol MimbleWimble, is showing no signs of life.

Markets  ·  18 May 2020
Privacy

What’s Really Private in Crypto? Research on Grin Raises Questions

Following a report last week on the anonymity features of grin, one big question emerged: What is privacy in crypto, anyways?

Tech  ·  25 November 2019
Developers

Grin Developers Agree to Alter Technical Development Roadmap

Developers behind the cryptocurrency Grin agreed to hold off on changes to planned proof-of-work updates for the foreseeable future.

Markets  ·  27 June 2019
Privacy Coins

First Grin Block Mined as Mimblewimble Privacy Crypto Goes Live

Grin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on "mimblewimble" tech, has gone live on mainnet.

Tech  ·  15 January 2019
Monero

US Government Interested in Tracking Privacy Coins, New Document Shows

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to find out if it's feasible to track transactions conducted using privacy coins.

Markets  ·  3 December 2018