Zcash News

DASH, DCR, FIRO, XMR, XVG, ZEC, and ZEN will cease to exist on the Huobi platform effective Sept. 19.

Snowden agreed to acknowledge his contribution to Zcash under the condition that the Electric Coin Company clarifies that he only participated in the first ceremony out of public interest and did not get any compensation.

U.S Treasury Secretary Yellen inadvertently leaked details of the forthcoming executive order on digital assets, leading to a spike in Monero and Zcash. What does this tell us?

Bittrex announced on Dec. 29 that its exchange will be removing the U.S. markets for the three of the biggest privacy coins by market cap on January 15, 2021. In the post, Bittrex stated it is giving users up to 30 days to withdraw their coins: “After the markets are removed, Bittrex generally seeks to provide […]

In May, Bitcoin underwent its long-awaited block reward halving. The number of coins mined per block was cut in half, leading many to expect a massive surge as the market supply of BTC was technically supposed to decrease relative to demand. And it did… kinda. Since the halving, Bitcoin has gained 70 to 80 percent […]

Innovation seems to have drawn a huge number of investors to altcoins, as the latest July data from investment platform eToro showed that some coins saw a month-on-month increase in trading of over 500 percent. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company said that Cardano’s ADA was the third most popular crypto on […]

Ever since crypto-crimes and criminals using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money became a thing, the field of crypto-forensics has come up as an unlikely “evil good.” The field has, somewhat, proven most cryptocurrencies are not fully private as previously imagined. A user’s transactional behavior can be mapped and worked backward to provide personal […]

[Update at 14:50 UTC] Benjamin Winston, Director of Security at ECC, told CryptoSlate via a tweet the paper was simply a  “review” of existing material and proposes a new attack that is based on a “faulty understanding” of the Zcash protocol by the Hush team. We reviewed this on May 6th and found it to […]