Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. Monero costs around $592 on October 18, a good 8 percent above yesterday's level. What makes the day stand out is not the number on its own: while Monero gains, Zcash loses 3.7 percent, Dash is flat and Bitcoin and Ether slip slightly. The privacy coins that traded as one block for weeks are coming apart, and for holders in Germany more hangs on that than a single day's balance, because access to XMR at regulated venues is narrowing at the same time.