Altcoin Watch
ZEC, HNT and SUI produce double and triple-digit gains even as the wider crypto market continues to reel from last week’s sharp correction.
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Zcash News
Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that allows anonymous “shielded” transactions using advanced cryptographic technology called zero-knowledge proofs.
Zcash’s roots trace back to 2013 with “Zerocoin,” a proposed privacy extension of the Bitcoin protocol that was rejected by core developers for its novelty, computational cost and impractical implementation.
The researchers and scientists behind the proposal pivoted to creating an entirely new cryptocurrency, “Zerocash” (now simply Zcash), hiring long-standing cryptography advocate and builder Zooko Wilcox as CEO of the Zcash Company. In 2017, the Zcash Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit entity, was launched to further advance Zcash and its principles in the broader community while further decentralizing its development.
In 2019, the Zcash Company rebranded itself as the Electric Coin Company and relinquished control of the Zcash trademark to the Zcash Foundation.
Zcash development is currently focused on improving its core privacy features, creating a more accessible user experience, and building bridges and interoperability with other blockchains such as Ethereum.
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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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OKX said that the latest decision to remove a number of trading pairs was based on feedback from users and the OKX token delisting guidelines.
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The new CEO, Josh Swihart, has been the vice president at Electric Coin for nearly five years but recently took a four-month stint away from the firm.
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Those of us in Italy and surrounding countries will be allowed to continue trading Zcash, Monero and other coins that Binance sought to condemn as unworthy.
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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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Binance users in France, Italy, Poland and Spain will no longer be able to buy or sell 12 privacy tokens starting from June 26.
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ConsenSys, the developer behind MetaMask, isn’t the only one snooping on our transactions, but they’ve taken the most heat for it.
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Want to keep the government from snooping on your transactional history? Start studying the forensics of crime and privacy on the blockchain.
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The exchange cited its own token management policy and compliance efforts as primary reasons for delisting seven privacy coins.
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Bitcoin could eventually attempt a relief rally which might trigger a rebound in MANA, MKR, ZEC and KCS price.
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Russian independent media Meduza has managed to raise $250,000 in funding in order to continue providing unbiased news on the war in Ukraine.
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It turns out the pseudonymous John Dobbertin, who was one of the six participants in the Zcash Ceremony, was Edward Snowden all along.
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Many privacy coin developers are convinced that all the necessary mechanisms to regulate AECs are already in place.
12019 - Market Analysis
Proof-of-work mining escaped severe regulatory pressure, but crypto derivatives and CNY Tether premium show investors‘ lack of excitement.
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