Tezos to Add Zcash’s Sapling Privacy Features

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Who cares about privacy? Not crypto users, says Coin Metrics

‘Uptake of privacy features and assets has been slow,’ the report stated.

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JPMorgan Adds Privacy Features to Ethereum-Based Quorum Blockchain

JPMorgan has developed a new privacy feature for ethereum-based blockchains that hides both the sender and the amount in a transaction.

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JPMorgan Adds New Privacy Features to Its Ethereum-Based Quorum Blockchain

JPMorgan has developed a new privacy feature for ethereum-based blockchains that hides both the sender and the amount in a transaction.

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Vitalik Proposes Mixer to Anonymize ‘One-Off’ Ethereum Transactions

Founder of ethereum Vitalik Buterin proposed Wednesday a "simple" design to enhance privacy features on the ethereum blockchain.

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Monero and Zcash are ‘privatizing the blockchain,’ claims Nym Technologies’ Harry Halpin

Monero, the privacy coin, and its fundamental features – ring signature, ring confidential transactions, and stealth addresses, have received a lot of attention in the past. However, in a recent edition of the Keiser Report, Nym Technologies’ CEO, Harry Halpin, said that Monero and Zcash were basically “privatizing the blockchain” itself and the sensitive data can be […] The post Monero and Zcash are ‘privatizing the blockchain,’ claims Nym Technologies’ Harry Halpin appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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You can now try out Microsoft’s Edge browser for macOS

Microsoft has officially announced a preview of its Microsoft Edge browser for the macOS. Microsoft originally unveiled plans for the browser at its annual BUILD developers conference held on May 6.

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Can Monero (XMR) Trade At $100 By End Of May

Monero is a cryptocurrency with a focus on privacy. The asset has gained attention based on its anonymity payment features. Monero runs a proof-of-work algorithm dubbed CryptoNight, which works well with CPU and GPU mining.

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Can Monero (XMR) Trade At $100 By End Of May?

Monero is a cryptocurrency with a focus on privacy. The asset has gained attention based on its anonymity payment features. Monero runs a proof-of-work algorithm dubbed CryptoNight, which works well with CPU and GPU mining.

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TRON (TRX) Launching Privacy Features on Testnet

TRON, the eleventh largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and one of the industry leaders in decentralized applications, is set to launch privacy features on its testnet in the coming days.

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Tron’s [TRX] Justin Sun confirms imminent launch of new privacy features called zk-SNARKs

Tron is ready to upgrade the security measures on its demo network. The blockchain-based protocol is set to launch its latest privacy feature called zk-SNARKs. This will soon be integrated onto the Tron mainnet.

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Binance vs Bittrex: Crypto Exchange Comparison, Which Is Best?

Not all exchanges are created equally. There are certain crypto exchanges which have features that make the trading experience safer, easier and more enjoyable for their users. Typically, as a result, the best cryptocurrency exchanges have the highest volumes and subsequently charge blockchain projects huge fees for listing.

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Vitalik Buterin Eyes Research on Privacy Coin Monero’s Traceability

By CCN: Vitalik Buterin has expressed an interest in incorporating privacy features into Ethereum. He is partial to the ZK-SNARKS technology that is used in privacy coin Zcash. Nonetheless, his senses appear to be particularly keen about any developments surrounding privacy protocols.

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Op Ed: Understanding the Latest FinCEN Guidance for Cryptocurrencies

On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.

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Liquid Network Expands With New Memberships and Integrations

Blockstream's Liquid Network has expanded to include 14 new members. With these additions, Liquid’s client base now boasts 35 institutions. The company also announced that Liquid is now available on Bitfinex and RenrenBit, a crypto finance app.

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Google’s case for privacy is more convincing than Facebook’s

Google, the search giant which has made its business to make money off our digital habits, is getting serious about privacy. The company, at its annual Google I/O developers conference yesterday, announced a number of fancy software updates, in addition to unveiling new hardware like Nest Hub Max and cheaper versions of its Pixel smartphone.

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Litecoin [LTC] releases LTC Core 0.17.1; features new updates and privacy solutions for users

Litecoin [LTC] had a lucrative start to the year, with its valuation rapidly rising during the April surge. Litecoin hit a high of $92. 78, which was equivalent to almost 85% price increment since the start of January.

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Here’s the coolest stuff announced at Google I/O 2019

Google held its annual developer conference yesterday, and it announced tons of cool stuff including new budget pixel devices, Android Q, better privacy controls, and new search features. Here’s a summary of some amazing stuff the company unveiled: New Pixel mid-range phones Google introduced a couple of budget handsets for the first time after it discontinued the Nexus series in 2016.

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Brave browser gaining impressive traction on Android, on par with Chrome

Among mobile web browsers downloads, Brave has pushed its way into third, narrowly behind Google Chrome by Play Store rankings. Through a combination of innovative features including a native cryptocurrency, built-in privacy, and a streamlined experience, the app has been able to make headway in a well-entrenched industry.

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Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 Release: Here’s What’s New

Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.

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Percentage of CoinJoin Bitcoin Transactions Triples Over Past Year

According to a study released by Longhash on April 29, 2019, the relative usage of CoinJoin out of all bitcoin transactions has tripled in one year, currently sitting at 4.

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Brave Moves Forward by Fulfilling Promises Made During BAT ICO Phase for Paid Web Surfing

Brave continues working in order to deliver the promises that it made during its Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Brave has been developing a web browser that allows content creators to receive rewards in Basic Attention Token (BAT) and allows users to have enhanced privacy features.

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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live

Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.

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Stealth: Quantum Proof-of-Stake (qPoS) Cryptocurrency for ID Protection?

What Is Stealth? Stealth is a cryptocurrency that seeks to provide its holders with access to the fastest blockchain that features instant transactions and advanced privacy protection. This can be attributed to the utilization of a state of the art cryptography combined with the integration of the TOR network.

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BNB Not Replacing ETH As EY Concludes Plans to Release its Zero-Knowledge Proof Transaction Protocol On The Public Ethereum network

One of the most important features of any project being worked on for the cryptocurrency industry is security. All related firms including manufacturing companies, exchange firms and even the makers of the cryptos themselves are always looking for new ways to not only make transactions as cheap as possible but also to ensure privacy and […] The post BNB Not Replacing ETH As EY Concludes Plans to Release its Zero-Knowledge Proof Transaction Protocol On The Public Ethereum network appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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11 aspects to consider when adopting smart home technologies

With smart home technologies constantly growing in popularity, there are several things consumers should understand about these devices in regards to features and long-term benefits, as well as potential issues or privacy risks.

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Bolt Labs Raises $1.5 Million Seed Round to Boost Lightning Privacy

With $1.5 million in seed funding secured, Bolt Labs wants to bring privacy features to the lightning network and other blockchain solutions.

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Breez Wants to Make the Lightning Network More User Friendly

New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.

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CCN: An Apology to Apollo, John McAfee, and Our Readers

Earlier this week, CCN published an article written by our journalist Pedro Febrero on the Apollo project named “Warning: This John McAfee-Pumped Cryptocurrency Has Major Red Flags” that incorrectly characterized technical aspects about the cryptocurrency’s protocol, namely its privacy features.

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What Is Electronero ($ETNX)

Electronero (ETNX) is a privacy centric CryptoNote cryptocurrency whose mainnet first went live on May 30, 2018. At its core, ETNX is a fork of Electroneum – a mobile focused crypto launched back in 2017.

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How Mark Zuckerberg wants governments to regulate content on online platforms

It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s now into blogging. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the Facebook CEO asked governments around the world to consider introducing more transparent rules for moderating content on the internet.

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Warning: This John McAfee-Pumped Cryptocurrency Has Major Red Flags

By CCN. com: Another day, another John McAfee tweet pumping a cryptocurrency project that has alarming red flags. The latest dubious crypto token is called Apollo, an “all-in-one” cryptocurrency with supposedly-private transactions.

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Samourai Wallet Adds Tor Integration in Privacy Push

Samourai Wallet announced this month that its latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users. What Does Tor Integration Enable?In a conversation with Bitcoin Magazine, Samourai’s lead developer, who is known simply as “TD,” gave a rundown of the Tor integration.

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Zcash Plans to Use “Turnstile” Activity to Catch Counterfeit Coins

Zcash has announced that it plans to add a new consensus rule in order to protect its coin supply against counterfeiting attacks. Although Zcash offers privacy features, some of its coins move in such a way that they can be observed via a “turnstile” effect.

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Bitcoin Graftroot: Learn About How It is Possible to Enhance BTC Privacy

There are many developments that are currently being performed to improve Bitcoin’s performance in the space. One of the things that developers are thinking about is implementing privacy features on the Bitcoin (BTC) network.

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Crypto Privacy Part 2: Zcash vs. Monero

In the first few years of Bitcoin’s existence, one of the features that attracted the most attention from early advocates was the ability to make private transactions. Bitcoin’s Privacy Woes In a financial system where banks, businesses and government authorities heavily monitor consumer purchases, the ability for one to vanish from the radar of theseRead MoreRead More.

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Bitcoin Cash Splits Up with Lightning Labs to Release Crypto Wallet with Extra Level of Privacy

The Bitcoin Cash development team has launched the mobile crypto storage app Neutrino, which is reported to have more features ensuring privacy than other wallets

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Bitcoin Cash Wallet Neutrino Introduces Additional Privacy Features

Bitcoin Cash developers have released a new mobile wallet called Neutrino, which has been designed to provide better privacy than other available wallets. Although Neutrino has been available as a command-line tool for some time, Android users can now try out the wallet.

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Best Monero (XMR) Wallets – 2019 Edition

Launched in April 2014, Monero is the world’s first private, secure, and untraceable digital currency of the internet. It can be said that Moreno is like a more confidential Bitcoin. When Monero launched, conversations around Bitcoin’s on-chain privacy features caused a spree of privacy-focused projects to enter the digital asset market.

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Monero (XMR) Future Price Prediction 2019 – Leading Privacy Coin To Reach 3 Digits Again?

When Monero launched, conversations around Bitcoin’s on-chain privacy features caused a spree of privacy-focused projects to enter the digital asset market. Originally named Bitmonero, Monero emerged as a privacy-focused cryptocurrency based on CryptoNote, a reference implementation for new altcoins many of which were later exposed as fraudulent projects.

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BSV Leader Craig Wright Claims His Privacy Coin Technology Can Make ZCash And Monero Traceable

Craig Wright Claims He Has The Technology To Make ZCash And Monero Traceable Craig Wright, the Chief Scientist at nChain, said that he is working on a technology that would make transactions on Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) traceable.

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Decentralized Payment Processor BTCPay Adds New Invoicing Options

Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.

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BitWings ICO

BitWings token, a native currency of Wings Mobile ecosystem, has 100% guaranteed issuing value and is the only means to pre-order the first (40 000) ultra-secure blockchain smartphones in the world able to generate up to 2 ETH a month without any power consumption, powered with neural technology.

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New Coinbase Earn Page for Users to Learn (and Earn) About ZCash (ZEC)

The popular cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, has launched a new Coinbase Earn opportunity with lessons about ZCash (ZEC). ZCash is one of the most popular digital assets in the market that provides privacy features for users using it.

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Privacy Crypto Coin BEAM Shares Mimblewimble-Compatible Lightning Network Plans

Beam (BEAM), a recently introduced privacy coin with features such as confidential addresses and opt-auditability announced on Tuesday that it will launch its Mimblewimble Lightning network, which intends to work as a second-layer scaling solution for faster and less expensive transactions for users.

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Sia Coin (SC) Is Still Alive And Has Some Great News To Report

Last week was officially announced the launch of the Goobox Alpha platform, an encrypted file storage and sharing service based on the decentralized cloud storage network, Sia. The announcement, posted on Sia’s blog, refers to the tool based on two fundamental features: its end-to-end encryption and zero knowledge, which alludes to the privacy of stored […] The post Sia Coin (SC) Is Still Alive And Has Some Great News To Report appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Litecoin Partners With Beam, Will Use MimbleWimble After All

Litecoin’s privacy features are gradually getting closer to becoming a reality. Beam, a brand new altcoin, has announced that it is now engaged in “possible cooperation” with the Litecoin development team.

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Zcash Discloses Inflation Bug That Could Have Created Infinite Tokens

Privacy-focussed cryptocurrency, Zcash, has disclosed an inflation bug, discovered 11 months ago, which affected its own and several other privacy-coins. Though the Zcash vulnerability has now been remedied, it took 8 months after discovery, and some coins remain exposed.

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Week In Review: Litecoin Privacy, BitTorrent Tokens, Altcoin Progress

This week introduced a few minor developments concerning Bitcoin and related business, while altcoins took center stage and made major steps forward. TRON’s BitTorrent Token became a hot topic during its phenomenally successful token sale, while Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash made important announcements about upcoming features.

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