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Privacy Coins Take a Beating This Year Losing Over $6 Billion, Anonymity Takes a Back Seat to Defi, NFTs

The last 12 months have been tough on digital currency investors as the crypto winter has caused a large sum of value to leave the once-bustling economy. The privacy coin economy, for instance, shed more than 55% against the U.S. dollar as it dropped from $11.7 billion in Jan. 2022 to the current $5.22 billion. Privacy Economy Loses 55% Against the Greenback, European Union Looks to Ban…

The Top Privacy Coins Saw Fewer Percentage Losses Than Most Tokens This Week

The privacy coins monero and zcash managed to see fewer percentage losses against the U.S. dollar this week, in contrast to crypto assets like bitcoin, ethereum, and solana. Seven-day statistics indicate zcash has lost 5.6% against the USD, while monero dropped by 6.1%. Privacy Coins Manage to Stave off Some of This Week’s Market Carnage, but Are Still Down 62% Lower Than 9 Months Ago At the time…

Monero Hard Fork Goes Live Bringing Privacy Improvements

A hard fork of Monero that brings many privacy upgrades has gone live. The upgrade adds Bulletproofs+, a ring signature size of 16, and view tags, among other things. The upgrade went live at block 2,688,888 on Sunday. The fork brings multiple improvements to privacy on the network, which is already one of the premier privacy protocols in the market. Congratulations on a successful network…

Monero (XMR) Plans for the Second Audit of Bulletproofs+ Code

The Monero development team is now crowdfunding to raise $13.5k in XMR for the second audit of the Bulletproofs+code. The review will be executed by JP Aumasson, a proposal published on Mar 2 shows. Bulletproofs+ for better Transaction Efficiency in Monero According to the proposal, Bulletproofs+ will be a drop-in replacement for Bulletproofs that Dr.Read More

Privacy Options Underutilized in Cryptocurrency Usage: Report

Advances in cryptography have not met with user enthusiasm, suggesting a disconnect between the cryptocurrency community and its cypherpunk ancestors.

According to Coin Metrics, transactions of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies zcash (ZEC), monero (XMR), and grin only add up to 6% of bitcoin’s transactions. Zcash’s privacy feature is significantly underutilized, with less than 2% of transactions…

Monero Research Lab's Concise Linkable Ring Signatures (CLSAG) Audit Ready, Funds Requested

The nature of cryptocurrencies means financial transactions are open for illegal monitoring. Monero obfuscates blockchain transactions for improved privacy and anonymity. Towards this end, the Monero Research Lab has issued a funding request for the auditing of the Concise Linkable Ring Signatures (CLSAG). In this audit, the Monero Audit Workgroup will work with Teserakt andRead More