Dash also follows in Pushing back against ‘privacy...

Jan 3, 2021 11:48 UTC

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Jan 3, 2021 at 11:48 UTC

By Clark

Despite past claims, Dash insists that it’s no a lot of non-public than Bitcoin

A recent tweet from Dash’s official Twitter account has invited criticism that the cryptocurrency, that once publicised its privacy options, is wilt within the face of doable restrictive scrutiny.

On Jan. 1, the US-based Bittrex exchange proclaimed in an exceedingly tweet that it might be delisting Monero, Zcash, and Dash:

#Bittrex Customers:

The $XMR, $ZEC, and $DASH markets are going to be removed on Friday, Jan fifteenth at 23:00 GM

— Bittrex (@BittrexExchange) Jan one, 2021

The delistings follow an analogous Dec. twenty nine announcement last week that Bittrex would be delisting XRP following a SEC cause against Ripple, prompting speculation that the exchange preemptively delisted the privacy coins in anticipation of a wider restrictive stifling.

In response, Dash proclaimed in an exceedingly tweet that that they had “reached intent on @BittrexExchange to request a gathering,” which touching on DASH as a “privacy coin” may be a misnomer:

From a technical stand, Dash’s privacy practicality is not any bigger than Bitcoin’s, creating the label of “privacy coin” a name for Dash. we’ve got reached intent on @BittrexExchange to request a gathering with their compliance team. Hopefully this can be corrected shortly. https://t.co/QA66OoshPn

— Dash (@Dashpay) Jan one, 2021

As recently as 2017, however, archived screenshots from the Dash Foundation web site advertise DASH as “the worlds 1st privacy centrical crypto-currency.”the present Dash Foundation web site instead currently says DASH is “the leading payments cryptocurrency.”

In a recent tweet concerning the delisting DashPay business executive Ryan Taylor conjointly decreased the currency’s privacy features:

10/ Dash’s PrivateSend feature is solely a branded implementation of non-custodial CoinJoin. Don’t take my word for it… business leading consultants like Chainalysis and Perkins Coie agcoin.

— Ryan Taylor (@RTaylor05) Jan two, 2021

While the ostensible about-face has prompted jeers and criticism on Twitter, proponents have noted that Dash discharged steerage on the cryptocurrency’s privacy options in August. in an exceedingly diary on the official Dash web site, Taylor wrote that “regulators are involved that exchanges could also be unable to fits KYC / AML laws once transacting coins with privacy options,” as a result of DASH is “often found on lists of coins with privacy enhancements.”

However, Taylor wrote that Dash has mostly been undefeated in convincing exchanges and regulators that Dash isn’t a privacy coin.

“Through a method of education, we’ve got been effective in explaining the technology and convincing regulators that acceptive Dash poses no progressive risk compared to Bitcoin.”

The clarifications concerning Dash’s core focus follow associate proclaimed upgrade to Dash moving to the testnet section, associate upgrade which can embody DashPay, a “social crypto payments notecase.” DASH is down three-dimensional on the day to $87.71.

Clark

Head of the technology.