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Zcash founder joins Shielded Labs, pushes for hybrid PoS upgrade

DIGIT — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:45:54 +0000

Zooko Wilcox is now the new head of product at Shielded Labs and wants to speed up the protocol’s upgrade to a hybrid PoS consensus mechanism.

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Grayscale Debuts Privacy-Focused ETF Featuring Zcash Trust Allocation

DIGIT — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:15:32 +0000

According to a recent Form N-1A, Grayscale has approached the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with a proposal for a unique exchange-traded fund (ETF) dedicated to the privacy and cybersecurity realm. The Grayscale Privacy ETF aims to be the first to encapsulate the burgeoning sector of privacy technology and cybersecurity. Privacy Takes Center Stage […]

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Binance was wrong to boot Monero, ZCash and other privacy coins

DIGIT — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:28:07 +0000

Binance betrayed our interests with its decision to delist privacy coins. In the long run, it may mean that users leave Binance in the dust.

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Privacy Coin Interest Stays Tepid as Leading Coins Report Modest Gains in 2023

DIGIT — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:00:08 +0000

Over the past 90 days, the top privacy coins by market capitalization have seen an increase of just over $2 billion, rising from $4.65 billion on Nov. 9, 2022 to $6.69 billion today. However, while crypto assets such as bitcoin and ethereum saw gains of 30% or more in 30 days, privacy tokens like monero […]

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Privacy Coins Take a Beating This Year Losing Over $6 Billion, Anonymity Takes a Back Seat to Defi, NFTs

DIGIT — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:30:57 +0000

The last 12 months have been tough on digital currency investors as the crypto winter has caused a large sum of value to leave the once-bustling economy. The privacy coin economy, for instance, shed more than 55% against the U.S. dollar as it dropped from $11.7 billion in Jan. 2022 to the current $5.22 billion. […]

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The Top Privacy Coins Saw Fewer Percentage Losses Than Most Tokens This Week

DIGIT — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:00:43 +0000

The privacy coins monero and zcash managed to see fewer percentage losses against the U.S. dollar this week, in contrast to crypto assets like bitcoin, ethereum, and solana. Seven-day statistics indicate zcash has lost 5.6% against the USD, while monero dropped by 6.1%. Privacy Coins Manage to Stave off Some of This Week’s Market Carnage, […]

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Crypto Economy’s Top Privacy Coins Take a Hit After US Government Banned Tornado Cash

DIGIT — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:00:58 +0000

Following the U.S. government prohibiting the use of the ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash, the crypto economy’s top privacy coins lost more than 8% in USD value the following evening after the ban announcement. The top privacy coins like monero and zcash managed to recover the losses two days later, but during the last 24 […]

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Top Privacy Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap Lost Half Their Value in Less Than 2 Months

DIGIT — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:00:11 +0000

Since the end of April, the top privacy crypto assets by market capitalization went from a combined value of $10.7 billion to today’s valuation of around $5.09 billion. During that time frame, monero lost 48% in value while zcash shed 56% against the U.S. dollar. Privacy Coin Economy Sheds Billions Since End of April The […]

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The Latest Zcash Software Release Supports the Network’s ‘Largest Upgrade in History’

DIGIT — Thu, 12 May 2022 20:30:45 +0000

According to the Electric Coin Company, the team behind the cryptocurrency network Zcash, the protocol is soon to implement the largest upgrade in history. The Zcash development team has released the 5.0.0 codebase which supports the NU5 upgrade that will occur on or around May 31, at block height 1,687,104. Electric Coin Company and Zcash […]

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Biggest Movers: GRT up 15%, While ZEC Rallies Following Recent Losses

DIGIT — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:20:11 +0000

As crypto markets moved into the green on Tuesday, GRT was one of the biggest gainers, as prices rebounded following recent declines. ZEC was also higher on the day, climbing by as much as 5%, while DOGE extended Monday’s gains. The Graph (GRT) GRT was easily one of the biggest gainers in crypto markets on […]

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