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Coinbase's Blockchain Security Team recently identified a significant shift in the Zcash network's hash power distribution. A single mining pool, ViaBTC, was found to control over 51% of the network's computational power, raising concerns about potential security vulnerabilities.

South by Southwest festival, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a quiet but pointed statement wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the Latin phrase “Mundus sine caesaribus” (“a world without Caesars”). The message was a direct clapback at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who months earlier had sported a similar shirt reading “aut Zuck aut nihil”, a twist on the ancient slogan “aut Caesar aut nihil” (“either a Caesar or nothing”). Graber’s fashion choice wasn’t just a meme; it encapsulated Bluesky’s mission to dismantle the idea of a social media emperor ruling over users. “Our infrastructure shouldn’t be controlled by one CEO,” Bluesky’s Emily Liu told Huffington Post, framing the platform’s decentralized model as a rebellion against Zuckerberg’s—or any billionaire’s dominance.

Since graduating with a degree in economics from the University of Birmingham in 2018, Joel has worked as a financial market/cryptocurrency analyst. He firmly believes that emerging crypto technology...

Pushd’s presale is drawing attention from privacy-centric communities like Monero and Zcash, intrigued by its innovative e-commerce model. With promises of potential 100X returns, these investors are particularly interested in Pushd ’s approach to blending e-commerce with advanced security and anonymity features, proposing a compelling growth trajectory in the burgeoning sector of blockchain-based retail solutions.

Zooko Wilcox, the founder of Zcash, has stepped down from his position as the CEO of Electric Coin Company (ECC), which is responsible for the development of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC). Wilcox, who has been at the helm since the company's inception in 2015, played a pivotal role in fostering the development of Zcash, which debuted in 2016. Under his leadership, Zcash emerged as a prominent privacy cryptocurrency, reaching significant trading values shortly after its release​​.

Zooko Wilcox, the creator of the privacy-oriented blockchain network Zcash, is stepping down as CEO of Electric Coin Co., the primary developer behind Zcash. Wilcox has served as the project’s leader since its creation in 2015.

In a recent publication by Pantera Capital, the firm delved into the concept of a "positive black swan" event in the blockchain industry. The term «black swan» traditionally refers to unpredictable events with potentially severe consequences. However, in this context, Pantera Capital highlights the positive implications of such events for the blockchain sector.

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Privacy advocates scored a big win in June with Binance’s announcement that it was backtracking on a decision to delist privacy coins for users in a number of European countries.

Hackers are using a resurgence in popularity around the Super Mario Bros. franchise to sneak stealthy crypto malware onto unsuspecting gamers’ personal computers.As reported by Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs on Friday, a legitimate installer for the fan-made game “Super Mario 3: Mario Forever” secretely includes “an XMR miner, SupremeBot mining client, and the Open-source Umbral stealer,” on top of the actual game. 

Binance's initial plan to delist specific privacy coins in certain EU nations has now been reversed as the company undertook revisions to ensure compliance with regional regulatory requirements.

Binance announced in May that it would delist so-called “privacy coins” such as Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC) and others in several countries, including France, Italy, Spain and Poland. The decision underscored the reality that some companies might step over their own feet to ban privacy tech — even where it is legal — out of a combination of risk aversion and compliance confusion.

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is planning to delist a number of privacy coins for users in Spain, France, Italy and Poland.

Cryptocurrency is going to become less private in Europe as the major exchange Binance is preparing to delist all privacy tokens in countries like France and Italy.

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Over 280 blockchains are plagued by major vulnerabilities known as “Rab13s,” according to a report released yesterday by the blockchain security firm Halborn.

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The cryptocurrency community has a tendency to fixate on a new issue every few weeks and then promptly forget about it. The limited attention span of this community misses the ultimate resolution of important issues. Over the Thanksgiving holiday in November 2022, ConsenSys released a disclosure about a privacy policy affecting MetaMask users that sent “Crypto Twitter” into a firestorm. My first reaction was also negative.

On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans of true crime podcasts will enjoy the crypto version and get a seat in the Federal Bureau of Investigation van as United States federal agents track down criminals through their crypto transactions.

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On Monday Edward Snowden tweeted 'for the first time in a while I'm starting to feel the itch to scale back in' with the Bitcoin price around $16,500.