Monero

Cyber security company Varonis has discovered a new miner virus that stealthily extends Monero cryptocurrency (XMR) on users' devices. The company’s report said that a feature of the miner called Norman is that it is difficult to detect in the system. So, when you open the task manager on a Windows device, the program ends the mining process. Accordingly, after closing the task manager, the miner restarts. […]

The developer of Zcash, the Electric Coin Company (ECC), intends to make radical changes to the architecture of this cryptocurrency user-oriented privacy, reports the Decrypt publication. The ambitious plans of the creators of the project provide that the network Zcash will be able to handle "thousands or even millions of transactions per second." To implement them, you may need to switch to a completely new blockchain with support for sharding technology. […]