Aaron van Wirdum is the former Editor-in-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine and author of The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin.
The good news is that the Bitcoin protocol is safe and the bug was never exploited in any way. Still, it could have allowed for one of the worst attacks on Bitcoin in years.
A look at why Verge cannot reasonably be considered a privacycoin on par with Monero, Zcash or even Bitcoin — if it can be considered a privacycoin in the first place.
The second article in our series on privacycoins looks at Monero. One of the oldest privacycoins on the market, it's based on the innovative CryptoNote protocol first used by Bytecoin.
"Efficient cooperation requires a medium of exchange (money) and a way to enforce contracts,” Dai explained when he introduced b-money in November of 1998.
Bitcoin’s overlay payment network is projected to improve over the next few years in areas ranging from network architecture to security and usability, and more.
