Tag Archives: Monero

Privacy coins such as Monero, Dash and Zcash are beginning to show signs of life. Source link

Bitcoin initially became popular as a way to pay for illegal goods on the dark web marketplace the Silk Road. But just recently as cryptocurrencies enter the mainstream media once again, the current most active marketplace on the dark net has ditched Bitcoin in favor of Monero. Here’s why Bitcoin’s …

Monero (XMR) is the worst-performing crypto asset of the past 24 hours. The privacy-focused coin is down 15% in the past day, pushing below key support levels amid a strong drop level. Chart of XMR's price action over the past week from TradingView.com Its drop comes as Bitcoin has done …

The prominent darknet marketplace, White House Market, has dropped bitcoin payments and now accepts monero only. The darknet marketplace administrators detailed that there was an issue with a payment processor blocking Tor exit nodes, but the full transition to monero was always planned. A number of crypto proponents have reported …

Ukrainian government officials are investing in cryptocurrency. Source link

A Canadian publicly held company has liquidated all of its ethereum and monero holdings and put all of the proceeds into bitcoin. The company is led by a well-known poker player and former member of the European Parliament. Cypherpunk Dumps Monero and Ethereum for Bitcoin Cypherpunk Holdings, a Toronto-headquartered company …

The firm claims it will be able to identify XMR used for illicit purposes to support criminal investigations. Source link

The Monero development team is now working on a community-funded Bitcoin–XMR atomic swap implementation project code-named Farcaster, a Reddit update on Nov 13 shows. Introducing Farcaster The first phase of the project involves collecting Request for Comments (RFCs) to formalize the structure of the project. These RFCs, the team explains, will cover …

A new Monero update brings improvements in performance, speed, and security amid increased scrutiny from law enforcement and developments from competitors Source link

Privacy coin Monero presses on full steam ahead as its daily transaction count reaches all-time highs. Data from bitinfocharts.com shows the daily number of XMR transactions peaked at 20.136k on October 12, 2020. This smashes the previous all-time high of 16.689k daily transactions, achieved less than a month and a …