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Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy coin for making anonymous payments. Like Monero, its tokens are fungible—each one is identical, and not tied to its transaction history—and it uses cryptography to obfuscate users’ identities. It differs in a few key aspects; namely in that it’s capable of conducting public transactions in addition to private ones, thus sparing it some of the regulatory scrutiny that Monero has encountered. Launched in October 2016, Zcash was created by the Zcash company, founded by Zooko Wilcox.
  • Wall Street. Image: Shutterstock

    Why Wall Street Won’t Embrace Crypto Without Zero-Knowledge Privacy

    When you pay with a stablecoin like USDC, you may be giving up more than just money.  As long as you’re transacting on a public blockchain, a merchant—or anyone, for that matter—can view your wallet, analyze your past transactions, and use or sell your personal financial history. This feature isn’t a minor inconvenience. It’s why serious institutions, from major banks to government entities, hesitate to adopt blockchain technology.  Financial entities, corporations, and sovereign funds would be...

    NewsOpinion
    5 min read
    Howard Wu
  • Europol headquarters. Image: Shutterstock

    Fully Autonomous AI Could Control Criminal Networks: Europol

    Europol has warned that blockchain and AI will “accelerate serious and organised crime” in the coming years, with a new report from the EU law enforcement agency even predicting that fully autonomous AI “could pave the way for entirely AI-controlled criminal networks.” In its 2025 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, Europol suggested that the combination of AI and crypto will serve to expand online fraud schemes, which already represent “the most rapidly expanding sector” in organised...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Simon Chandler
  • Hackers and China. Image: Shutterstock

    US ‘Flips’ to Support Encryption Following China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ Cyberattack

    The ‘Salt Typhoon’ cyberattacks by Chinese hackers on governments and businesses have been described as a “watershed moment” by digital privacy advocates, after U.S. officials recommended the use of end-to-end encryption in their aftermath. After U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials urged Americans to use encrypted messaging apps in the wake of the cyberattack, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, creator of privacy coin Zcash, tweeted...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Luke Edwards
  • Monero. Image: Shutterstock

    Monero Surges to Two-Year High of $211 as Privacy Coins Heat Up

    Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero surged to over $211.07 earlier today—its highest value since May 2022. At time of publication, Monero has pulled back slightly from its local high, and is currently priced at $205.05, up 17.8% on the day and 30.6% on the week, per data from CoinGecko. Monero's upward momentum comes as the wider privacy coin sector has heated up over the past week, with the category as a whole up over 12% in the past 24 hours alone, according to CoinGecko data. Leading the pa...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Crypto mixing service Tornado Cash. Image: Shutterstock

    TORN Jumps 380%, Privacy Coins Railgun, Zcash Surge After Tornado Cash Ruling

    Crypto mixer Tornado Cash just flipped the script on the Treasury—and privacy coins are reaping the rewards. Tornado Cash’s native token, TORN, soared to highs of almost $35 Tuesday morning, after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court ruled that immutable smart contracts cannot be classified as “property” under existing law. At time of publication, TORN has pulled back from its local high to trade at $17.17—up 382.9% on the day, per CoinGecko data. The court's landmark decision struck a blow to the U.S....

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Vismaya V
  • The UK and crypto. Image: Shutterstock

    $5.1 Billion in Illicit Crypto Transactions Linked to UK Every Year: NCA

    A new report from the UK's National Crime Agency has found that as much as $5.1 billion worth of illicit crypto transactions are linked to the country every year, with both digital and crypto related crime on the rise. The agency's findings were published in its annual National Strategic Assessment, which draws on data from law enforcement, government, and private intelligence. “As the popularity of cryptocurrency grows, so too does the frequency of cryptocurrency crime,” the report stated. The...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • The EU. Image: Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Lightning Network and Layer 2 Scaling Could Be 'Abused by Criminals', Says EU

    A new report from the EU has singled out Bitcoin's Lightning Network and other layer 2 solutions as "data obfuscation" technologies that could be "abused by criminals." The First Report on Encryption by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security, a "collaborative network of innovation labs" from across EU member states, argues that alongside technologies including Mimblewimble, zero-knowledge (zk) proofs, coin mixers and privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash, "layer 2 solutions such as the lig...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Image: Decrypt

    'Clock is Ticking' on Bitcoin Privacy: Edward Snowden

    CIA whistleblower turned international fugitive Edward Snowden has issued a "final warning" on Bitcoin privacy, amid a U.S. crackdown on crypto privacy projects. In a tweet, Snowden said that, "I've been warning Bitcoin developers for ten years that privacy needs to be provided for at the protocol level," adding that, "This is the final warning. The clock is ticking." He was responding to a post by crypto privacy project Wasabi Wallet, announcing that it has suspended its services for U.S. users...

    NewsCoins
    4 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Binance. Image: Shutterstock

    Privacy Coins Monero, Zcash, Horizen 'At Risk' of Delisting by Binance

    Crypto exchange Binance has added a "monitoring tag" to a list of cryptocurrencies including privacy coins Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Firo (FIRO). In an announcement, Binance said that tokens with the monitoring tag "exhibit notably higher volatility and risks compared to other listed tokens," and are "at risk of no longer meeting our listing criteria" and being delisted from the exchange. It added that tokens with the monitoring tag are subject to regular reviews. Criteria con...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Stephen Graves
  • Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn and Ryan Selkis at the Mainnet conference. Image: Andre Beganski / Decrypt.

    Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin 'Very Hopeful' Dogecoin Moves to Proof of Stake

    Now that the Ethereum merge is complete, Vitalik Buterin thinks other blockchains like Dogecoin and Zcash should follow suit.  “As proof of stake matures, I expect it to just increase in legitimacy more and more over time,” Vitalik said over video chat at the Messari Mainnet conference on Friday.  “I hope that Zcash moves over. I am also very hopeful that Dogecoin is going to evolve over to proof of stake at some point soon,” he added. Earlier this month, Ethereum executed its long-awaited merg...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Kate Irwin
  • Image: Shutterstock

    Zcash Nixes Trusted Setup, Enters New Era With Major Network Update

    The Electric Coin Company (ECC) announced today in a blog post the launch of the first major upgrade to the Zcash privacy coin network since November 2020, Zcash Network Upgrade 5 (NU5). Zcash Network Upgrade 5 is live on mainnet. For my perspective on what this is and why it is historically important, see this thread: https://t.co/4wnZR5PXnE pic.twitter.com/5VcrZO2cTh — zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓 (@zooko) May 31, 2022 NU5 includes the Orchard shielded payment protocol, which the company says will remove...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Jason Nelson
  • Edward Snowden. Image: Shutterstock.

    Edward Snowden Helped Create Zcash Privacy Coin

    Edward Snowden, the famed National Security Agency whistleblower, helped launch Zcash in 2016, a representative of the Zcash inventors Electric Coin Company told Decrypt. Snowden joined Zcash creator Zooko Wilcox, Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd, Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh and two others in launching the Zcash blockchain. In a process known as "trusted setup," the six participants each received a sliver of the private key needed to create the cryptocurrency. Previously, the identity o...

    NewsTechnology
    2 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • Clear skies for bluesky. Image: Shutterstock

    Decentralized Twitter Project Bluesky Says It's Unaffected by Elon Musk Purchase

    Back in late 2019, when Jack Dorsey was still CEO of Twitter, he set in motion a plan to "develop an open and decentralized standard for social media" that would explore elements of crypto and Web3. That effort, which came to be called "bluesky," gained steam in 2021 with a January "ecosystem review" of decentralized social apps and the August appointment of Zcash veteran developer Jay Graber as its lead. Today, bluesky took to Twitter—the platform soon to be privately owned by mega-billionaire...

    NewsTechnology
    2 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • PHOTO CREDIT: Unsplash

    Privacy Coins Monero, Zcash Lead Crypto Market Rebound

    Top privacy coins like Monero and Zcash are surging in price today, with several of them posting overnight gains of 10 to 20%. The largest privacy coin Monero, which has a market capitalization of over $3.5 billion, shot up 18.8% in the last 24 hours and trades for around $195.43. Despite the rise, that’s still about 64% short of its former all-time high of $517, set back in May 2021, according to CoinMarketCap.  Zcash is up 17.6% today and trades for $131.87 at the time of writing. Like Monero,...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Tim Hakki
  • Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. Image: Shutterstock

    Zcash Price Jumps 29% After Devs Announce Shift to Proof-of-Stake

    Yesterday, Electric Coin Company, the organization behind privacy coin Zcash, outlined its official roadmap for the next three years. Within hours, the price of Zcash rallied from $147 to $189, an increase of 28.6%. The privacy-focused organization said in a blog post that it’ll release an official ECC wallet in 2022, before moving Zcash from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to the more environmentally friendly proof-of-stake model within the next three years. Electric Coin Company says it w...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Tim Hakki
  • Hush money. Image: Shutterstock

    Privacy Blockchain Putting Up $100 Million to Compete With Zcash and Monero

    You likely haven't heard of Findora, a privacy-centric blockchain that "makes it possible for users to share information without showing it." But if its strategy pays off, the under-the-radar blockchain being developed by Discreet Labs could be in competition with well-known privacy coins Zcash and Monero. Today, it announced a $100 million ecosystem fund to be used for research, development of new applications, infrastructure such as staking, and liquidity.  The money, to be deployed over the n...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • Twitter. Image: Shutterstock

    Twitter Names Former Zcash Dev to Head Decentralized Social Network Bluesky

    Twitter has tapped former Zcash core developer Jay Graber to lead Bluesky, a project CEO Jack Dorsey has said will "develop an open and decentralized standard for social media." Dorsey welcomed Graber to the role this morning via his centralized social network, Twitter.  Graber authored an ecosystem review for the product in January that included contributions from members of Protocol Labs who work on the InterPlanerary File System and Filecoin Network, among others.  In addition to IPFS and oth...

    NewsTechnology
    2 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. Image: Shutterstock

    Zcash Creator Wants ZEC to Be Less Like Bitcoin, More Like Ethereum

    Proof of stake (PoS), a consensus protocol that uses deposited crypto to secure a blockchain, is becoming more in vogue. Two projects from Ethereum co-founders—Polkadot and Cardano—use it, Ethereum rival Solana says it gives the project super speeds, and Ethereum is months away from its own transition to PoS. Zcash, a prominent privacy coin with a market cap of $1.2 billion, may join it.  "While there are many people who prefer PoW, I believe that PoS would make ZEC more valuable to more people!...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jeff Benson
  • Privacy coins. Image: Grant Kempster/Decrypt

    What Are Privacy Coins? Monero, Zcash, and Dash Explained

    The pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin addresses enables transactions without identifying personal information, but that doesn’t make it a completely anonymous cryptocurrency. Because the entire transaction history lives in public view on a blockchain, it can be possible for investigators and firms to piece together people's identities based on the movement of coins and details held within addresses. That’s where so-called privacy coins come in. Cryptocurrencies like Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and D...

  • Monero is a privacy coin. Image: Shutterstock

    Privacy Coins Drop 10% After Bittrex Announcement

    Prices of the popular privacy coins went into freefall after Bittrex’s announced today that it will delist Monero, Dash and Zcash later this month. As Decrypt reported earlier today, the exchange announced that it will delist Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and Zcash (ZEC) on January 15, 2021, at 23:00 UTC.  The sudden announcement sent the prices of these privacy coins into a downward spiral. Since the announcement by Bittrex, the price of XMR is down by 12.4%, ZEC is down 9.5% and DASH is down 8.7...

    NewsMarkets
    2 min read
    Jason Nelson
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