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Markets

Market Wrap: What Twitter Hack? Traders Stay Busy Buying Bitcoin at $9,000

Bitcoin suffered a short period of selling in early trading but has bounced back, seemingly immune to Wednesday's Twitter hack.

Source: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Tech

Zcash Latest Hard Fork 'Heartwood' Makes Mining Private

Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked at block height 903,000 in a planned network update known as “Heartwood.”

Zcash Foundation Executive Director Josh Cincinnati speaks at ETHDenver 2020. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk)

Markets

Introducing the CoinDesk 20: The Assets That Matter Most in Crypto

Based on "real volume" from eight reputable exchanges, these 20 digital assets attract most of the sector's legitimate trading activity.

CoinDesk 20

Finance

Elliptic Follows Chainalysis in Adding Zcash to Monitoring Platform

Elliptic, the blockchain analysis company, has added privacy coins zcash and horizen to its monitoring platform.

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Markets

Argo Buys $500K Worth of Zcash Miners as Bitcoin Revenue Shrivels

Doubling its mining capacity for privacy coin zcash could help Argo diversify after last month’s halving knocked its bitcoin revenue.

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Tech

The Zcash Privacy Tech Underlying Ethereum’s Transition to Eth 2.0

Ethereum’s consensus algorithm is not the only thing changing with the launch of Eth 2.0. The underlying cryptography itself is getting an overhaul.

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Finance

Crypto Forensics Firm Chainalysis Adds Tracing Support for Zcash, Dash

The blockchain intelligence firm says it has added zcash and dash to its transaction-tracing products.

Chainalysis said only 0.9% of zcash transactions are shielded, letting it track the other 99%. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Videos

Foundations: Zcash and Electric Coin Company

Segment 1: Building on Zcash Learn directly from developers in the space about what it’s like to build on Zcash. ECC’s senior PM, Brad Miller, will sit down with Holmes Wilson and Aditya Kulkarni to talk about their projects in the Zcash ecosystem.

CoinDesk:Distributed 2020 – Foundations Track

Markets

Zcash's First Halving May Solve Its Inflation Problem

Zcash is due for its first mining reward halving later this year. The event could solve a major problem for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

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Tech

Developers of Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Smash Their Keys

Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code.

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