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. Why you should listen Tari is an open-source blockchain protocol built in Rust.…
Kai is a core contributor to RAILGUN, a DeFi privacy toolkit powering a rich on-chain Zero-Knowledge privacy ecosystem. Why you should listen Transactions on public blockchains like Ethereum are viewable on the ledger. Whilst blockchains are a huge technological advancement for financial freedom, they have fundamental shortcomings in protecting the human right of privacy, which…
For most of crypto’s history, the altcoin trade went something like this: buy a basket of altcoins when Bitcoin is consolidating, hold through the next BTC leg up, then ride the dominance unwind into an “altseason” of 2x to 10x rotations. Hold spot, believe in something, get paid for being early. That trade has stopped…
Bitcoin is not welcome in Russia. The Central Bank of Russia, this year, put in place legislation that bans the issuance and circulation of cryptocurrencies. But officials in the country accept that an outright ban is unenforceable. Speaking on the country’s Digital Assets Bill, Alexey Guznov, the Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department…
What Is Monero (XMR)? Monero (XMR) is one of the leading cryptocurrencies focused on privacy, zero knowledge, and censorship-resistant transactions. The Monero network operates on a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism, like Bitcoin and various other cryptocurrencies. This system incentivizes miners to contribute blocks to the blockchain. Monero’s PoW algorithm is designed to resist specialized mining…
Brave, the company behind the eponymous browsers, has launched an unlimited video calling service based on the open-source Jitsi solution. The service, called Brave Together, is currently only available in Nightly, the beta testing version of Brave, in North America.Unlimited Video Calling Being Tested on Brave BrowserBrave Together promo image. (Source: Twitter)The expansion of video…
Monero and Zcash, leading privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, are gaining attention as potential market frontrunners in 2025. The demand for secure, anonymous transactions is surging as concerns over digital surveillance, data breaches, and financial autonomy grow. Privacy coins like Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) have emerged as key solutions for individuals seeking to protect their financial data…
Bitcoin (BTC) is crumbling The success of Facebook’s Libra instrumental for Bitcoin Under attack for their reckless past, the success of Facebook will be immense for cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin. Even so, privacy is prime. Safeguarding personal data is a top priority. At the moment, the secure BTC is stable, bouncing back after this week’s rout.…
The Lightning Network is one of the most bullish developments that the Bitcoin ecosystem has seen so far. And all the available metrics point up, a healthy and vibrant network is brewing. However, investor Kevin Rooke took a deeper look and found out that the Lightning Network is probably even bigger than previously thought. “Inaccurate…