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Zcash May Be Getting Spammed but the Blockchain Is Doing Just Fine, the Company Behind It Says

Electric Coin Co., the organization behind Zcash, claims that concerns of a spam attack are mostly just fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

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Tornado Cash Adds Chainalysis Tool for Blocking OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets From Dapp

The blockade only applies to the Tornado Cash front end, not the underlying smart contract, one of the protocol's founders later tweeted.

Coin mixer Tornado Cash announced a nod toward compliance on Friday. (Espen Bierud/Unsplash)

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Crypto Privacy Positions Harden Ahead of Crunch EU Vote

Lawmakers don’t appear swayed by crypto industry claims as they consider applying anti-laundering identification rules to the sector, but some argue the EU plans are unworkable or unlawful.

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Geopolitical Uncertainties Boosting Demand for Privacy Coins in 2022?

Privacy coins Monero XMR, Zcash ZEC and Secret SCRT all saw large price spikes, possibly gaining favor from certain users over other cryptocurrencies.

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What Is Zcash? The Privacy Coin Explained

Zcash has seen ZKP breakthroughs, its first halving and progress toward further scalability. This feature is part of CoinDesk's Privacy Week.

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金融

A16z Leads $28M Round for Privacy Coin Iron Fish

Other investors in the round included Sequoia, Electric Capital and MetaStable, as well as Terra co-founder Do Kwon and Anchorage co-founder Nathan McCauley.

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US Nuclear Engineer, Wife Charged With Sale of Naval Secrets for Crypto

Justin Ehrenhofer, monero community member, discusses the specifics of an alleged espionage case: A nuclear engineer employed by the U.S. Department of the Navy and his wife were accused of attempting to sell restricted data in exchange for the privacy-centric crypto monero.

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New Privacy Coin Iron Fish Launches Testnet With $5.3M in Funding

Iron Fish is betting there is still a demand for privacy coins in a crowded market.

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Privacy Coin Firo Temporarily Disables Protocol to Investigate 'Suspicious Transactions'

Core devs have activated their emergency switch to temporarily disable Lelantus.

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