Tari – the Freedom Enhancing Protocol
Naveen Jain and Riccardo Spagni are contributors at Tari Labs, building Tari. Tari is a new open-source, decentralized protocol that reimagines the future of digital assets. Tari is being architected as a merge-mined sidechain of Monero and will inherit its security model.
Binance Drops Monero
Pointing to new regulatory requirements and '“evidence of unethical or fraudulent conduct" Binance has announced its decision to delist the Monero privacy coin.
Monero Price Analysis – On-chain metrics and technicals hold firmly bullish
Fundamentals show active and continued incremental XMR network upgrades over the past two years, including decreased transaction costs, improved transaction efficiency, blockchain pruning, improved privacy, and improved custody solutions.
Zcoin privacy project launches Lelantus testnet
The privacy coin project aims to balance privacy innovation with user simplicity
Data Snippet – Price targets for the current Monero bull run
Evaluating price discovery levels on a day-to-day basis can be difficult. Mapping out key levels of resistance in advance of any bullish price run can prevent shoot-from-the-hip decision making from creating a poorly planned trade.
Hackers suspected of using supercomputers to mine Monero
Supercomputers across Europe have been infected with malware that caused them to mine the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Incidents in the UK, Switzerland and, Germany have lead to shutdowns while the security incident is investigated.
Monero turns six amid regulation concerns
Monero (XMR) the 13th largest crypto-asset and largest privacy coin on Brave New Coin’s market cap table. XMR recently celebrated the 6th anniversary of its genesis block.
Crypto-jacking can’t survive without CoinHive says a new report
Just two years ago, crypto-jacking was said to represent 35 percent of all cyber threats. But the closure of mining service CoinHive has almost put an end to the pernicious industry.
CipherTrace report highlights new regulations, Libra, and exchange hacks
A new report by CipherTrace provides insight into the state of the global crypto asset markets. The ‘Q2 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report’ says a growing global regulatory response and the entry of Facebook’s Libra were significant events last quarter.
Monero Price Analysis – XMR bug shakes users
On July 3rd, HackerOne revealed a vulnerability that could have been exploited to steal money from exchanges. The bug has since been patched.
Monero Price Analysis – Consensus algorithm change slated for October
Pending a successful audit, the network will drastically change its consensus algorithm from CryptoNight to Random X this coming October, in a bid to remove ASICs from the network permanently.
Monero Price Analysis – Incremental upgrades
Fundamentals show active and continued incremental upgrades over the past two years, including decreased transaction costs, improved transaction efficiency, blockchain pruning, and improved custody solutions.
Monero continues its resistance to ASIC mining
In response to the increasing threat of ASICs centralizing its mining, the Monero network. is scheduled to implement a hard fork on block 1788000.
Darknet transactions up 70% — with BTC still the currency of choice
After the 2017 closure of Alphabay, darknet transactions for crypto fell steeply. In 2018, however, the numbers grew consistently again, with bitcoin still the preferred currency for people wanting anonymous transactions
Mimblewimble coins challenge the crypto privacy status quo
Promising to make privacy scalable, Beam beats Grin to become first Mimblewimble Coin
Monero: No plans to go ‘legit’
Whereas 2018 has seen both ZCash and Dash make moves towards ‘legitimacy’ and away from their foundational ‘anonymous cryptocurrency’ use case, Monero... has not.