17 | Latest Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin & Crypto Updates 2025

Get Ready for New Privacy Coin – Litecoin

Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has decided to implement more changes into the protocol and enter the play field of the privacy coins such as Monero, Zcash and others.“Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin. Now that the scaling debate is...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto in 2019: What the New Technologies Will Bring

"Technical development-wise, I see a lot of coins simply stopping technical development altogether." "We're going to see the rise of mimblewimble." "This is a year for everyone to get their heads down and focus on delivery."2019 is a big year for crypto and blockchain technology. It's been a...

, by Simon Chandler

US Authorities Want to Know More About Your Privacy Coins

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just published a pre-solicitation document stating that the agency seeks to develop methods to track transactions of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, such as Monero and Zcash.The document, which was published by Homeland Security’s Small...

, by Benjamin Vitáris

Authorities Just Reminded That They Can Track Bitcoin Users Down

Two Iranians who reportedly helped exchange Bitcoin ransom payments into Iranian rial on behalf of Iranian malicious cyber actors were caught as their Bitcoin addresses were identified by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This serves as an important...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

This New Stablecoin Has a Backdoor for Freezing Funds Too

USD//Coin (USDC), a cryptocurrency recently released by crypto startup Circle, retains the right to blacklist addresses and freeze funds should they decide they are being used for illegal activities. The community is outraged and many are looking for stablecoin alternatives to USDC.However, the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Should You Be Scared of Anonymous Founders?

As Bitcoin proves, some cryptos with anonymous principals are legit. But first, ask the reason for the anonymity.Crypto is no stranger to anonymous founders. Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto was effectively anonymous, and the received wisdom says that this enabled the original cryptocurrency to develop...

, by Simon Chandler

The Massive XLM Airdrop Hits Wall of Criticism

Cryptocurrency wallet and data provider Blockchain has announced an airdrop of USD 125 million in Stellar Lumens (XLM), nearly half a billion tokens, in an attempt to boost crypto adoption. However, the news didn’t elicit as much of a positive response as the company might have hoped: the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Protecting the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in the Age of Blockchain

There’s been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past year. Although best known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin, blockchain is starting to disrupt other industries, from supply chains to energy trading.One of the key selling points of blockchain is that once data is added to the...

, by Ali Dorri

HTC’s Blockchain Phone Unveiled: The Case of Exodus

HTC, a Taiwanese consumer electronics company, unveiled its flagship blockchain-focused smartphone today, called the Exodus 1. Also, the phone maker said it developed its own cryptocurrency wallet called Zion so the phone could double as a hardware wallet. The phone comes with a separate micro...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Top 5 Privacy Coins: Features and Differences

Cryptocurrencies that focus on the privacy of their users - or, simply, privacy coins - have drawn the interest of many different people, all with a single priority: nobody should know how they spend their money. Bitcoin may not be as anonymous as most people think, but there is a number of coins...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Major Social Media Disruption Ahead

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. _________Last week, I demonstrated how highly successful distributed...

, by Juan M. Villaverde

‘A Brilliant Idea’ for Bitcoin Finds its First Application in Zcoin

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcoin claims it has become first cryptocurrency that implemented Dandelion protocol, which is praised by the crypto community as an important development when it comes to increasing privacy for crypto users. According to Reuben Yap, COO of Zcoin, Dandelion provides...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Why This Man Scared Bitcoin Maximalists?

ShapeShift, one of the best known platforms offering peer-to-peer trading of digital assets, will require personal information from their users very soon, and it is making Bitcoin maximalists quite unhappy. ShapeShift has previously been described as “more in line with the original vision for...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Blockchain’s Problem Is Too Much Hype, Says Vitalik

The biggest problem that blockchain currently faces is the high ratio of hype being generated versus actual use cases, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum platform, stressed again.“The amount of sustainable usage of blockchain is very low. Although it exists, there are a lot of people...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

War on Cash, Part 2: Privacy Coins

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Martin D. Weiss, is the founder of Weiss Ratings. _________Recently, we told...

, by Juan M. Villaverde

4 Ways Governments Could Misuse the Blockchain

Blockchain technology has enabled the birth of a new decentralized economy, which is taking power away from centralized authorities and giving it back to the people. Most blockchain advocates believe that the widespread adoption of this innovative new technology will lead to a freer, fairer and...

, by Alex Lielacher

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