Category: Zcash News

Monero, the most popular privacy focused blockchain is now undergoing 51% attack. The ticker XMR is already banned from most major centralized exchanges.

The European Union has passed the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation – AMLR, that would ban all cryptocurrency exchanges from offering anonymous cryptocurrency accounts or wallets starting July 1, 2027. This is bad news for all privacy cryptocurrencies that are being traded in the EU. 

Horizen team has announced that it has removed support for its side chain, TokenMint that allowed users to create tokens and trade them just like Ethereum and Binance tokens. 

Zcash team knew delisting was coming to privacy coins and worked with Binance and other big cryptocurrency exchanges to ensure ZEC, the main token on Zcash blockchain does not get delisted.

Do you wish to remove the developer fee of 2 percent that comes with the EWBF AMD and Nvidia Cuda Zcash miner? The new version is better than ever but includes a 2 percent developer fee. This means every hour, the Nvidia Zcash miner app will mine for few minutes for the developer. This way the developer gets some money in his Zcash wallet.

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Team behind Ycash, a friendly soft fork of Zcash, has released its first development roadmap. The Ycash Foundation will fund projects in four key areas.

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BitOasis, a cryptocurrency exchange from middle east has announced on its website that it will be delisting both Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR). Both being the privacy coins, it is safe to assume that BitOasis wants to do away with anonymous cryptocurrencies.

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Zcash team has announced that the Zcash Sapling upgrade was activated today at block height 419200. Sapling is an important upgrade for the Zcash network as it brings support for new shielded addresses and memory reduction of 97 percent.

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Zcash team has released its first Sapling RPC supported version of the Zcash node software. The Zcash Sapling activation will happen around 28^th of October 2018, which is the day when Zcash becomes two year old.

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BitGo has announced support for Zcash. BitGo is a popular cryptocurrency wallet and world’s largest processor for bitcoin transactions. Infact, BitGo processes around 15 percent of total bitcoin transactions and total of 15 billion dollars across all of the supported cryptocurrencies. It has customer base in more than 50 countries around the world.

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