Study: Bitcoin Remains the Most Popular Darknet Cryptocurrency
The Block analysts studied the payment options on darknet markets. It turned out that after Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrencies are Monero (XMR) and Litecoin (LTC).
Study: Bitcoin Remains the Most Popular Darknet Cryptocurrency
The Block analysts studied the payment options on darknet markets. It turned out that after Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrencies are Monero (XMR) and Litecoin (LTC).
Monero Community to Publish Guide on Listing Privacy-Centric Cryptocurrencies on Exchanges
The Monero cryptocurrency community (XMR) and privacy protocol developers from Tari Labs are preparing a guide for exchanges on dealing with privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. This was reported by Decrypt.
Researchers Disclose Bot in Disguise Mining Crypto and Stealing User Data
Threat intelligence research team Cisco Talos has discovered a cryptocurrency mining botnet attack dubbed Prometei. The main purpose of the actor is to deploy users’ computer systems to mine Monero (XMR). Another possible goal is to steal Bitcoin (BTC) wallets that might be protected by passwords stolen with open-source app Mimikatz.
Retracing Monero’s Steps in 2019
Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014. Unlike some other cryptocurrencies, Monero is not a Bitcoin fork and is based on its own whitepaper and codebase.
Will Monero, Dash, Zcash, And Other Private Coins Be Delisted?
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies draw more and more attention from regulators and politicians around the world. Governments openly pursue monitoring of transactions. They tend to restrict or ban digital currencies that make the monitoring job harder.
What is Monero (XMR)?
1 What is Monero? Attention! The article is outdated and requires an update. Monero (XMR) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency with open-source code, whose protocol implements several transaction-anonymisation techniques: stealth addresses and ring confidential transactions. On the Monero network, only the transacting parties—and anyone given a special access key—can see the amount and the sender and recipient addresses. 2 Who launched Monero, when and how?
What are privacy coins?
1 What are privacy coins? Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are peer-to-peer payment systems with their own unit of account, designed to ensure full confidentiality of financial operations through cryptographic protocols that make auditing network data difficult or impossible. Among the largest by market capitalisation are Monero, Dash and ZCash. 2 What is Monero? Monero is a peer-to-peer payment system based on the CryptoNote protocol that provides anonymity via ring signatures and stealth addresses. The protocol was created by Nicolas van Saberhagen and first implemented in Bytecoin, from which Monero is a fork [April 2014].
Japanese Exchanges Could be Forced to Delist Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrencies
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is ‘quietly’ pressuring local cryptocurrency exchanges to delist privacy-focused altcoins such as Monero, Zcash, and Dash.
Six Best Performing Altcoins of 2016
Bitcoin’s December rally caused some hype both in the cryptocommunity and in mainstream media, even though the latter has earlier repeatedly predicted its imminent death. The explanation is obvious: price increase upwards of 100 percent over 12 months is something any investor dreams of.We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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