Privacy on a public blockchain sounds like a contradiction. With Zcash, it isn't. You can take a regular, transparent ZEC balance — the kind any block explorer can see — and encrypt it onchain so no one

Half of my portfolio is now ZEC. That's not a hedge. That's not a trade I'm planning to exit. That's a conviction bet, and I want to walk through how I got here, because the path mattered more than the

If you've been holding native BTC, ETH, DASH, ZEC, or RUNE in self-custody and wondering whether there's a real, non-custodial way to earn yield on those assets without wrapping them or shipping them to

Let's do a little hopium on privacy tokens shall we?

Litecoin recently underwent a reorg that exposed crosschain protocols to double spends. The damage was relatively minimal as most protocols caught it quickly and Litecoin contributors managed to quickly

Zcash has the same 21 Million supply as Bitcoin. It offers the promise of "onchain digital private cash". Is ZEC just another coin in a long line of tokens claiming to be as good (or even better

Things looked better in December In fact, it was hard not to be bullish on XMR. The main reasons for that were a multi year long uptrend that ran opposed to the general market direction. Only few Alts

# Monero History Monero is the first privacy coin. In July of 2012 Nicolas van Saberhagen (a pseudonym) launched Bytecoin as a counter to Bitcoin's lack of privacy. In April 2014 someone known only as

Aljif7's Blog Thursday 16 January, 2026 AREA: Cripto-Finance 🚨 BREAKING: Crypto Traders Predict Real-World Assets to Outperform Memes & Privacy Coins in 2026 — But Don’t Count Out DASH & XMR Just

So xmr has exploded to the upside, and it looks like it has a lot more upside. I watched the chart in the morning, the afternoon and the evening. I was busy outside doing a lot of cleaning and weed whacking.

I walked the Sunday swap meet this morning and I purchased a few small items. The walk-thru scored me over 4000 @actifit steps. I walked the backyard but most of today's steps were scored in the house.

Privacy Shift It seems that one of the more positive things that has come out of the 2025 crypto market is a shift back to utility. Memes aren't the hype anymore and instead we have seen DeFi rise with

It was a little dryer outside today, so I spent more time working in the backyard. I worked on bicycles and raked up a lot of leaves. 🍁 For every leaf that was raked up, maybe 5 leaves fell from the tree.🌳

Almost all of today's @actifit steps were scored in the house. It has been extremely wet and cold around here without the rain. I always watch the markets, and monero and hbd are a couple of the few that

How many Venezuelans are here who understand that the US is coming to steal your gas, oil, minerals - They are not coming to help your country, look carefully at what they have done to Arab countries for

If you are Venezuelan, make sure you have several pages ready to work with your crypto, don't wait for one page, especially binance or Coinbase ... If the US tries to isolate this country even more - then

Such a good usecase bro we've totally cracked the case!

There is a statement of monero dev where he told: the preparation to switch to asic takes 4-6 month while this time they still want to mine XMR. My opinion (of the XMR perspective) on watchlist until halving

If you go read the original paper it is quite concerning. I have read some of it and as far as I understand there is a way for mining pool that are willing to cheat the system to get all the blocks at

Orphaned blocks don't increase the difficulty as they should and the estimated hash rate is based off the difficulty. So they may have 51% of the estimated hash rate (the hashrate you can watch on the