Zcoin $XZC is now available on Abra app for US customers which allows direct funding via US bank deposits and credit cards. Zcoin support is expected to be rolled out to international customers within a few weeks!
https://zcoin.io/zcoin-now-on-abra-for-us-customers/

AMA = Ask Me Anything.

Basically you'll be able to ask Honest Mining and Zcoin any questions and get them answered.

There will be two AMA sessions hosted for all curious about doing shared Znodes on Honest Mining. Here are the details:

🗓 Thursday, November 21, 2019

1st session: ZCoin telegram: https://t.me/zcoinproject
⏰ 10.00 am GMT+7

2nd session: Honest telegram: https://t.me/HonestMiningEN
⏰ 11.00 am GMT+7 <after 1st session>

⏲ http://bit.ly/HonestZCoin

Mark your calendar, join the AMA and get chance to win a surprise with total US$ 200 worth of XZC and HNST! 😎

Thank you very much!

We've added GrepBlock to the list of explorers on our website.

This is a very nice site. Nice to see all the metrics in one place. The description of Zcoin at the bottom though is a bit dated though. Zcoin no longer uses the Zerocoin protocol for privacy and has replaced it with the Sigma protocol.

If it is your site, can I suggest you change it to:

Zcoin is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency project. It was the first to implement ideas from the Zerocoin project whitepaper written by a group of academics in 2013. When working on his first cryptocurrency in 2014, founder Poramin Insom realized that the project he developed lacked sufficient safeguards for user and transaction privacy. Consequently, in 2016, he created Zcoin, a new cryptocurrency with security and privacy at its core. Since then, Zcoin introduced key protocols, including the MTP mining algorithm, network privacy protocol Dandelion++, and recently, the Sigma Protocol to replace Zerocoin as the privacy protocol in use. The Sigma Protocol lets a user burn existing coins to redeem them for coins with no previous transaction history later. By breaking links in the blockchain, the protocol provides strong end-user privacy.

Sandra Yap, Zcoin's Director of Partnerships and Media was featured on the cover of the November issue of the Block Journal. She shares insights on Zcoin, true anonymity, markets, and the future on how cryptocurrencies should be used.

You can download the November Issue from https://blockjournal.io/

San Francisco Blockchain Week was a very meaningful event for Zcoin. From presenting Lelantus to an academic audience and getting valuable feedback to meeting projects in the space that we can collaborate on improving privacy or usability of cryptocurrencies.

It's alway great to see messages like this! I'll forward it to the Devs.

We are proud to partner with Hummingbot as a Liquidity Mining launch partner to enable and incentivize community market making. We aim to make market making open, transparent and efficient!

https://zcoin.io/zcoin-partners-with-hummingbot-to-enable-community-market-making/

Version v0.13.8.5 has been released!

This is an optional but recommended update for all users, Znodes, mining pools and exchanges.

Exodus tokenization layer with Sigma support completed. This allows anyone to create their own token with Sigma privacy with Zcoin's blockchain.

As always, please backup your wallet prior to updating to this version for safety!

https://github.com/zcoinofficial/zcoin/releases/tag/v0.13.8.5

Accepting Zcoin $XZC for your real-world business just got easier using PlusBit Pos Zcoin point of sales system!  Easily convert your smartphone or tablet to a Zcoin Point of Sale device.

https://twitter.com/PlusBitPos/status/1189082020854587393

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cit.z_coin

Did you know that Zcoin has a YouTube Channel where we publish all our videos and video updates?

So if you don't want to miss any Zcoin videos, subscribe and press the bell!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4zOvMMqnBM_DLrtA4_XwGA

The more people mint, the stronger the privacy of the overall system. Please consider minting your coins and help grow Zcoin's anonymity set! 💪

You can view the current Sigma status at https://explorer.zcoin.io/sigmastatus

Attention all Zcoin Miners! F2Pool has dropped its fees to 3% PPS for Zcoin's MTP! 😁

If you want to learn more about Zcoin's MTP mining algo and see what makes it so special check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ95DW474xI

Zcoin is now listed on Probit Exchange with KRW and BTC pairings allowing our South Korean friends to directly buy $XZC! Deposits for Zcoin are now open and trading begins tomorrow: https://support.probit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035505931-Zcoin-XZC-Trading-Competition-

Watch Sandra Yap give an update on the highlights around Zcoin from the past month. Includes her trip to Bangkok with Boxmining to live off solely off Zcoin, Zcoin getting added to Badali gift cards and Zcoin’s partnership with Travala.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUJ7vQN-Mc

Zcoin featured on RT America where Reuben talks about how having uncensorable private cryptocurrencies are among the most important things mankind can have.
Interview starts at 15:35

https://youtu.be/WAeRVJgiCUs?t=935

On Friday, Oct. 11 at 4 p.m. GMT+3, ChangeNOW will be hosting a video AMA with the Zcoin's COO, Reuben Yap.

We welcome anyone to ask any burning questions that they might have!

https://t.me/changeNOW_chat

A new version of CCminer for MTP has been released with stability improvements.

https://github.com/zcoinofficial/ccminer/releases/tag/1.2.3

If you would like to get started with mining Zcoin, check out our blog at https://zcoin.io/guide-on-how-to-mine-zcoin-xzc/

Zcoin’s next gen privacy protocol Lelantus, has been updated to enable direct untraceable anonymous payments which hides sender, recipient, and value, only showing that a valid transaction has happened.



Read more about it in our blog: https://zcoin.io/direct-untraceable-anonymous-lelantus/