For a quick five minute overview of what Zcoin has been doing in the past few months, check out Sandra's update video here:

https://youtu.be/-J6YkiqcRkM

Watch Reuben and Sebastian Mack get interviewed on BlockTV about Zcoin’s role in providing humanitarian aid to flood victims in Iran.

https://blocktv.com/watch/2019-08-29/5d67b6316a648-using-privacy-coins-for-humanitarian-aid-in-iran

We are proud to be listed on the cryptocurrency exchange, OVEX, with a South African Rand (ZAR) pairing in line with our strategy to build strong fiat on-ramp partners. OVEX is backed by Vinny Lingham's Newtown Partners.

Zcoin is currently only one of three cryptocurrencies to be paired with the ZAR on OVEX.

https://zcoin.io/zcoin-listed-on-ovex-with-a-south-african-rand-zar-pairing/

Have a burning question you want to ask Zcoin? Join our AMA with @messaricrypto at 8PM EST on 28 August 2019! You can submit your questions on their Telegram chat (https://t.me/messaricrypto) or via Slido (https://app.sli.do/event/dgafysia/live/questions).

Zcoin is now accepted as a donation method on iranrescuebit.com

After several flash floods hit the country in April, affecting 269 cities and 5,148 villages in 28 out of the 31 Iranian provinces, many families were left homeless overnight and were in dire need of humanitarian aid.

However, sanctions on the country still make it close to impossible to organise any international aid as the country is cut off from international payment systems and international bank accounts of aid agencies have been frozen.

IranRescueBit is an effort by Iran-based cryptocurrency enthusiasts to allow for donations, circumventing the international banking system. All donations are converted locally at trusted exchanges and donated to the Iranian Red Crescent Society in local currency.

With Zcoin you now have the possibility to do good and to do so anonymously. We encourage our users to use Sigma to mint coins and donate anonymously.

https://iranrescuebit.com/donate

We are happy to announce that Zcoin has been listed on VCC Exchange in Vietnam! Trade Zcoin with zero fees.

https://support.vcc.exchange/hc/en-us/articles/360000376522-VCC-Exchange-lists-Zcoin-XZC-

https://vcc.exchange/exchange/basic?currency=btc&coin=xzc

We are excited to share Zcoin's development progress!

In this packed update, we cover our work from Sigma, our newly released beta GUI, mobile app development, payment code support, chainlocks, Lelantus research and more!

https://zcoin.io/zcoin-development-update-23-august-2019/

Watch Reuben, Zcoin's COO discuss tradeoffs in cryptocurrency design (from Bitcoin's block size to privacy choices),  Zcoin's Lelantus, Twitter Etiquette, the inevitable dominance of Privacy coins in everyday use on Crypto GrownUps.

https://youtu.be/RImcA_Z5Joo

v0.13.8.4 has been released

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

It fixes a deadlock that resulted in nodes becoming randomly unresponsive along with other minor bugs.

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

https://github.com/zcoinofficial/zcoin/releases/tag/v0.13.8.4

A nice shout out to Zcoin from Jason at TokeInsight at 15:34

https://youtu.be/l0TjTbDPOrY?t=932

Zcoin is now spendable nationwide at over 5 million merchants in Thailand!

Read more about it here: https://zcoin.io/zcoin-now-spendable-nationwide-at-over-5-million-merchants-in-thailand/

Zcoin $XZC is now accepted at MCM Marketplace!  Hundreds of items for sale or setup your own store to sell goods for Zcoin. 

https://market.mobilepaycoin.com/

The more people mint, the stronger the privacy of the overall system. Please consider minting some (or all?) of your coins and help grow Zcoin's anonymity set! 🙏

We are happy to have met Huobi's USDT listing standards and the XZC/USDT pairing will be available on Huobi Global at 15:00 on August 9, 2019 (GMT+8).

https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000361601-Huobi-Global-Will-Launch-XZC-USDT-at-15-00-on-August-9-GMT-8-

v0.13.8.3 is out!

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

It contains numerous stability and bug fixes especially in relation to Sigma.

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

https://github.com/zcoinofficial/zcoin/releases/tag/v0.13.8.3

We are happy to see Zcoin's $XZC work on Lelantus being recognized and discussed in this Twitter thread started by one of Bitcoin's pioneers Amir Taaki who created the BIP process and libbitcoin.

https://twitter.com/Narodism/status/1158531433826328576

Zcoin is available to trade on the decentralized exchange BISQ! Read the guide our very own Muggles has written on this on the process!

https://forum.zcoin.io/t/how-to-buy-zcoin-with-bitcoin-on-the-bisq-decentralised-exchange/354

Over 30,000 XZC has been minted through our new Sigma privacy protocol since its launch 2 days ago and we expect this number to increase as more users update and get educated! Help mint some Zcoin to improve everyone's anonymity! #zcoin $XZC

Mint, Spend, Repeat!

Zcoin $XZC will be supported on the ELLIPAL Titan hardware wallet!

https://www.ellipal.com/pages/ellipal-titan