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9 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Privacy coin GRIN is currently experiencing a 51% attack, according to mining pool data platform 2miners.com, which tweeted about the development on Nov. 8. One mining entity seized control of 58.1% of the network’s hash power on Nov.7 2miners cont...
4 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has ordered exchanges to stop dealing in tokens that could potentially be used for money laundering, according to a press release issued on November 2. The announcement specifically refers to “dark coins”,...
23 Oct 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Sapphire Crypto
Monero & Zcash Whenever I think of privacy coins, the first names that come to mind are Monero and Zcash. Both these coins have not only survived but also have strong positions according to market cap, trading volume and community support. I was in C...
22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments TheDesertLynx
CipherTrace came out over the past few months with claims to be able to reliably trace certain Monero transactions. Apart from an interview with key members of the Monero team, not much follow-up on these claims took place. I interviewed several exp...
15 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment TheDesertLynx
David Campbell of the Electric Coin Company, the main development group for Zcash, comes on the podcast to discuss the coming privacy revolution in cryptocurrency, following much in the way that online encryption became mainstream. We also talked ab...
8 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx
Francisco Cabañas, a.k.a. ArticMine, of the Monero core team comes on the podcast to discuss all things privacy, beginning with Monero's approach to obfuscating transactions by making privacy-enhancing functions mandatory as well as hiding transacti...
8 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Venkatz
ENIGMA TO SECRET NETWORK Enigma is one of the open-source secured computation protocol which handles blockchain functions, or smart contracts, on sensitive (secret) data. This protocol is mainly designed to solve privacy, scalability, and usabili...
2 Oct 2020 1 minute read 8 comments TheDesertLynx
Alex Romanov, tech lead for Beam, comes on the podcast to talk about the exciting world of advanced cryptocurrency privacy. We discuss MimbleWimble and the unique scalability and privacy mix it provides, as well as unique benefits as well as challen...
1 Oct 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Alias
Alias Privacy has a new name! We are today formally announcing that ‘Spectrecoin’ has undergone a brand evolution to become ‘Alias’. This milestone is a significant move for the project and the team. We will now start the next part of our mission to...
26 Sep 2020 13 minute read 4 comments MarkHelfman
Recently I had a chance to chat with Adel de Meyer, entrepreneur and leader of DAPS coin, a fully anonymous staking coin and payment system. Her project recently published a new DAPS whitepaper and announced its web wallet. In our conversation, we ta...
