Battle Of The Privacy Coins: Five Month Update – Contrast Crypto
Just as HTTPS became standard on the public internet to protect credit card transactions, strong encryption will in time become standard on public blockchains to protect cryptocurrency transactions. Strong encryption is necessary to protect individuals, businesses, and nations on an increasingly hostile and invasive Internet.
Do you know about Zcash? It may just be the digital currency of choice for privacy-preservation and digital information security. Learn more in Zcash’s Introduction to $ZEC as part of their Building Blocks series:
Zero knowledge proofs are transforming blockchain privacy and scalability. You probably want to have some knowledge of cryptography before reading this piece by Starkware cofounder and Zcash founding scientist Eli Ben-Sasson.
Check out the video below to see the Electric Coin Company’s Q4 2019 Livestream:
The Ellipal hardware wallet now proudly supports ZEC cold storage and trading. Store $ZEC in the most secure air-gapped cold wallet with mobile support.
The for-profit entity working on Zcash, Electric Coin Company has published a software development kit (SDK) for both Android and iOS.
The Zcash Foundation is delighted to continue supporting the ZecWallet, an absolute cornerstone of the Zcash ecosystem.
Two separate security assessments have been completed on ZIPs that specify changes in the upcoming Zcash network upgrade, now named Heartwood.
ZIP 213: Shielded Coinbase and ZIP 221: FlyClient Zcash SPV were assessed for security by firms NCC Group and Trail of Bits.
Additionally, Trail of Bits produced some documentation helping to explain Sapling to newcomers, and NCC Group assessed the code implementation of the Blossom changes as part of their respective engagements.
Lastly, long time adviser, Gavin Andresen, stepped out of his formal role with the Electric Coin Company, he said, “ Working with Zooko and the Electric Coin Company team was a pleasure. Zcash is one of the few blockchains that I respect, because it is built by excellent engineers on top of the best privacy technology in the world.”
Zcoin v.13.8.10 is out with mnemonic seed phrase backup support, bug fixes and UI improvements. This means instead of saving the file wallet.dat, you can backup your entire Zcoin wallet by writing down your 12 or 24 word seed phrase.
Bitay @BitayTurkiye, @HuobiGlobal‘s partner in Turkey has now added $XZC with Turkish Lira support.
Zcoin are enhancing privacy with their Receiver Address Privacy (RAP) feature, you can read more about it below:
Zcoin is pleased to announce that we will be listed on the Bitcoin.Com Exchange with 4 trading pairs. Trading opened between January 10 and 13 with a BTC, BCH, ETH and USDT markets.
We are pleased to further improve our partnership with Constant P2P to allow users to lock their Zcoin into Znodes when loaning through Constant. This allows for interest rates on loans using Zcoin as collateral to be as little as 3–4% APR
Zcoin, 2019 in review:
We are excited to share Zcoin’s development progress. Updates were seen on Core, Deterministic Masternodes, Lelantus, RAP (Reciever Address Privacy), Exodus Sigma, ZTM, Mobile App with Sigma, Rich GUI and much more.
Dash released their platform to Evonet, launched their documentation portal, implemented app store pictures in DashWallet iOS, implemented several updated screens in DashWallet Android, and implemented Dash.JS SDK. For more, check out the article below:
Demelza Hays to Join Dash Investment Foundation as Fund Manager, you can read the write up below:
Dash’s partner exchange WhiteBit has upgraded InstantSend transactions for their users — starting now, users can enjoy the fastest transactions, for immediate crediting of funds.
Backports done to keep DashCore in line with Bitcoin v0.16. Work has been done to allow developers to assign DPNS data triggers to DPNS contracts on Evonet. Designs completed for User Registration in DashPay iOS/Android for Evonet.
Dr. Darren Tapp was a special guest on Dash Podcast 137 to discuss security analysis of ChainLocks and economic incentives. You can watch the podcast below:
You can apply to the Dash Developer Program and access a fast growing community of Dash Users Worldwide.
Electrum have implemented Dash PrivateSend now on testnet. You can see more about that below:
Dash awarded a top rating by Crypto Rating Council, ranking above Ethereum and Zcash.
Throughout 2019, $77 million worth of Grin was mined, making for an impressive first year. The old domain grin-tech.org has fallen into unknown hands.
DO NOT TRUST this site and for donation addresses to the General Fund ONLY USE THOSE LISTED IN THE GRIN-PM REPO.
A hard fork approaching, and meetings moved to Keybase, with an action to improve visibility of our Keybase community on the main website.
Grin successfully updated to v3.0.0 at block height #524,160. Grin Amsterdam teased with a follow up to their successful 2019 event, with a sponsorship confirmed by the Litecoin Foundation.
Grin forum has moved. The new address is: https://forum.grin.mw
Initial information and timelines for the scheduled v4.0.0 upgrade (in July 2020).
Bytecoin team released a project update late last year to address some of the community concerns and provide an update on the current state of the project. If you are interested in reading the blog update, you can read it here.
2019 was a tough year for the Bytecoin team and community, hopefully, 2020 is more fruitful.
Beam celebrated their first birthday, and shortly after their first halving. The Beam team have produced a blog explaining the halving, and some of its implications. You can read about that below:
Beam was reviewed by Vosk Coin, you can watch the video below:
Beam are launching CoinGecko Podcast for the new year! This year Bobby Ong & TM Lee will be interviewing thought leaders in the industry. For the first episode, Beam CEO, Alexander Zaidelson, and CTO, Alex Romanov, were interviewed by the CoinGecko team.
Check it out below:
Beam’s first halving (at block height #525,600) went flawlessly on Jan 4th, 2020. For the next four years, the block reward will be 50 Beam per block — 40 for the miners and 10 to the Treasury.
The Beam team are working on the 2020 roadmap — and expect it will be published soon.
Week 2, 2020
Alex Romanov recorded a new video talking about our plans for 2020 and we speak about Lelantus. More videos like that are expected in the future.
Week 3, 2020
Beam Weekly Development Update in video by Alex Romanov speaking of Double Doppler 4.2 Release including Beam Wallet channels using the Secure Bulletin Board System (SBBS), the API for Atomic Swaps and the Beam wallet ID.
There’s also an in depth look at the Beam Web Wallet and Trustless Wallet Service.
Week 4, 2020
Here’s an in depth look at the Beam Secure Bulletin Board System (SBBS).
December has been a monumental month for Dusk, as they have commenced the release of the Sandboxed Mainnet and shared some of the novel technologies being developed.
Part IV in Dusk’s Economic Model series has been published which discusses Sybil Attacks and the SBA consensus mechanism that secures the Dusk protocol.
Dusk are thrilled to announce that they have started the release of their Sandbox Mainnet. With this release they are able to provide commercial partners access to their platform in a controlled environment.
On January 29th, 2020, Dusk Network joined the BCNL Foundation in Berlin to discuss blockchain collaboration between Germany and the Netherlands.
Published at Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:43:54 +0000
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