The most notable thing about the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi’s decision to delist seven anonymity-focused “privacy coins” beginning Monday (Sept. 19) is that it comes just two months after it acquired a license allowing it to enter the U.S. market. On July 5, Huobi announced that...
In the controversial world of cryptocurrency, there’s very little more controversial than privacy coins, a subtype of digital assets designed specifically to be impossible to trace. At the core of that controversy is a philosophical argument: Are digital assets like Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC) and...
Bitcoin may be garnering a lot of interest from all sorts of investors, but it’s losing its luster for criminals, as they move on to a different cryptocurrency. According to a report in Bloomberg, during the course of the past two months, so-called privacy coins...
November 15, 2022
A leaked draft of an EU anti-money laundering (AML) bill suggests the organization could prohibit regulated financial institutions from dealing in privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies such as Monero and Dash. According to a CoinDesk report on Tuesday (Nov. 15), a draft document seen by the publication stated that “credit institutions, financial institutions and crypto-asset service providers shall […]
January 03, 2018
Bitcoin may be garnering a lot of interest from all sorts of investors, but it’s losing its luster for criminals, as they move on to a different cryptocurrency. According to...
