2020-6-20 21:00 |
The first part of a series of articles on the advantages and challenges in the usage of blockchain technology for collecting and sharing information, without violating users’ privacy.
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The second part of a series of articles on the advantages and challenges in the usage of blockchain technology for collecting and sharing information, without violating users’ privacy.
2020-6-22 20:00 | |
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Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has announced that it has added two privacy coins to the compliance services it offers. Dash and Zcash, which account for a combined $1. 5 billion in reported daily transactions, will now be available as part of the Chainalysis Reactor and the firm’s KYT (Know Your Transaction) services.
2020-6-10 17:57 | |
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Глава Tron Foundation Джастин Сан объявил дату запуска основной сети Tron 4. 0. Крупное обновление состоится 7 июля. Congrats to @OfficialTRONZ🎊 After nearly a year in development, TRONZ's Smart Contract Privacy Protocol will finally be released as an integral part of #TRON 4.
2020-6-8 12:10 | |
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Brave browser, arguably the world’s most-widely used crypto-based platform, announced on May 26 that video-calling capabilities are now a part of the browser. Privacy Calling As per a tweet, “private and unlimited” video calls can now be made via the Brave platform.
2020-5-29 13:07 | |
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As part of the global coronavirus crisis, many contact-tracing applications are under development. The NHS in the UK keeps an eye on the proceedings, but will not go with the plan outlined by Apple and Google.
2020-4-29 05:00 | |
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In order to make the most of Bitcoin’s inherent privacy features, we must be able to distinguish between real privacy and some persistent “red herrings.” The post A Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy Part 2: Don’t Be Misled by Red Herrings appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-3-22 19:45 | |
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In Part 1 of 2, Giacomo Zucco explores the fundamental relationship between Bitcoin and privacy by going back to the beginning with the whitepaper. The post A Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy Part 1: A Match Made in the Whitepaper appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-3-19 00:04 | |
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Knapsack mixing offers efficiency and privacy improvements over equal-amount bitcoin mixing. The post Do CoinJoin Mixes Really Require Equal Transaction Amounts for Privacy? Part Two: Knapsack appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-1-28 00:23 | |
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A new mixing protocol called CashFusion challenges the assumption that CoinJoins require equal amounts for the mix to be effective. The post Do CoinJoins Really Require Equal Transaction Amounts for Privacy? Part One: CashFusion appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-1-14 21:47 | |
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Brave, a privacy-enhancing browser for mobile and desktop, has reached over 40 million Android downloads. Although the browser doesn’t require the use of any cryptocurrency, it is still considered a major part of the ecosystem due to its native Basic Attention Token (BAT).
2019-11-29 21:00 | |
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This third entry in our series reviewing the leading hardware bitcoin wallets on the market scrutinizes their privacy and security. The post Bitcoin Wallet Reviews: What’s the Best Hardware Wallet on the Market? Part 3 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-11-14 20:43 | |
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This hardware bitcoin wallet review tests the simplicity, software, verification, unique features and privacy of the Trezor Model T, Ledger Nano X, KeepKey, BitBox02 and Coldcard Mk3. The post Bitcoin Wallet Reviews: What’s the Best Hardware Wallet on the Market? Part 2 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-11-13 23:49 | |
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BitMEX traders that had their details leaked as part of a recent privacy breach have started to receive phishing emails. The crypto exchange accidentally disclosed 23,000 of its users’ email addresses earlier this month.
2019-11-12 01:00 | |
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As Facebook deals with the loss of PayPal‘s backing for its ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra, the tech giant must now get ready to answer EU regulators’ questions about the potential risks posed by the project.
2019-10-7 12:07 | |
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New York, August 2019 – Particl is launching its marketplace at 8 am EST on Monday, August 12, 2019. It is an entirely decentralized ecosystem built around a native privacy coin, PART. Particl wants to fix the biggest issues still plaguing crypto: the inability to effectively spend cryptocurrencies without friction and with the full guaranty […] The post Particl Launching an Unhackable Marketplace With No Commission Fees appeared first on NullTX.
2019-8-17 04:30 | |
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Particl is launching its marketplace at 8 am EST on Monday, August 12, 2019. It is an entirely decentralized ecosystem built around a native privacy coin, PART. Particl wants to fix the biggest issues still plaguing crypto: the inability to effectively spend cryptocurrencies without friction and with the full guaranty of privacy.
2019-8-13 14:16 | |
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CoinOne — one of S. Korea’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms — has just entered into an agreement with cybersecurity audit company CertiK and disclosures company Xangle so as to provide its customers with more privacy as well as better overall transparency.
2019-8-8 16:08 | |
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Apple is globally suspending the use of Siri voice recordings after reports emerged that contractors hired by the company listen to them to improve the voice assistant. TechCrunch, which broke the news, said Apple plans to issue a software update to seek users’ consent before letting them participate in the product improvement program.
2019-8-2 09:04 | |
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Facebook has been grilled today at a Senate Banking Committee hearing over its cryptocurrency project Libra. As part of the hearing, a representative for the social media giant claims the firm has been in contact with a Swiss agency to oversea data protection and user privacy.
2019-7-17 02:00 | |
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The group behind internet privacy project, Tor, has launched a bitcoin donation fund as part of their fight against web censorship and surveillance. Tor Teams Up With BTCPay The web privacy advocates aim to raise $10,000 in a two-week crowdfunding campaign which will go towards the fight against internet censorship.
2019-7-17 00:00 | |
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As part of its fight against internet surveillance, those behind the Tor Project have announced a Bitcoin donation fund. The group is hoping to raise $10,000 over the next two weeks to help fund its mission to protect internet users’ privacy online.
2019-7-16 00:00 | |
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Mixers have been an important part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem to improve user privacy and erase ties to criminals who have held those BTC before. As the need for privacy continues to be a hot topic of debate, every crypto enthusiast should be well versed with mixers.
2019-7-16 20:00 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Andrew Yang, a United States presidential candidate running for the Democratic Party, has come out to air his support for cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, blockchain. The digital entrepreneur revealed that he would like to see greater regulation of the crypto space.
2019-5-17 15:59 | |
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The Neutro Protocol solves the trilemma of scalability, security and decentralization, allows for anonymous transactions and eradicates the need for centralized oracles. Neutro users can create a decentralized version of almost any real-world market that exists now only in a centralized system that we all use currently.
2019-5-15 14:13 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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CryptoNinjas Last week, Particl’s Core Developer and Cryptographer, Tecnovert, successfully conducted the first-ever Particl Lightning Network (LND) transaction (links below). Particl is an open-source and decentralized privacy platform built on the blockchain specifically designed to work with any cryptocurrency.
2019-5-7 09:11 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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According to a study released by Longhash on April 29, 2019, the relative usage of CoinJoin out of all bitcoin transactions has tripled in one year, currently sitting at 4.
2019-5-2 23:50 | |
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As Facebook continues to weather a string of legal battles and harsh criticism for its never-ending privacy disasters and a generally lackadaisical attitude towards consumer data, the social networking site kicked off its annual F8 annual developer conference at San Jose yesterday.
2019-5-1 17:28 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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By CCN: Internet of Things (IoT) is a major buzzword, almost as prominent in the tech world as “blockchain” itself. It can mean different things to different people. Primarily, the Internet of Things describes a world of connected devices which serve various purposes, everything from building widgets in a factory to monitoring your refrigerator.
2019-4-23 23:53 | |
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Retail giant Amazon recently admitted that its employees listen to customer voice recordings from Alexa products as part of its method of improving its speech recognition. Users do have the option to prevent their recordings from being shared with Amazon employees in Alexa’s privacy settings, but they cannot opt out of voice recording.
2019-4-15 15:54 | |
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CryptoNinjas Cryptocurrency privacy platform Particl has announced the addition of multi-wallet functionality to Particl Desktop. While the multi-wallets feature has always been accessible to a part of the Particl system, Particl is bringing it to its desktop version.
2019-4-2 01:51 | |
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Samourai Wallet announced this month that its latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users. What Does Tor Integration Enable?In a conversation with Bitcoin Magazine, Samourai’s lead developer, who is known simply as “TD,” gave a rundown of the Tor integration.
2019-3-27 20:38 | |
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The UK’s “porn block” or porn ban is an epic violation of privacy and data harvesting. It’s also doomed to fail and will lead to high-profile sexual extortion. Let’s back up. If you haven’t heard of the UK’s porn block, you’re not alone.
2019-3-20 17:36 | |
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In the first few years of Bitcoin’s existence, one of the features that attracted the most attention from early advocates was the ability to make private transactions. Bitcoin’s Privacy Woes In a financial system where banks, businesses and government authorities heavily monitor consumer purchases, the ability for one to vanish from the radar of theseRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-19 02:00 | |
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has apparently been specifically targeting bitcoin and crypto investors as part of its broader tax strategy to keep tabs on their cryptocurrency investments, including how they purchase these assets.
2019-3-9 23:53 | |
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After a week of community discontent, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to sever its business relationship with Neutrino employees who previously worked at the notorious Italian malware/software provider Hacking Team.
2019-3-5 19:09 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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The New Kid On The Blockchain: GRIN A big part of today's life is ones online persona. The constant digitization of life has its allure but in doing so, there is a tradeoff; a decrease in privacy. It is no longer optional either, from major companies like Facebook and Google to small-time scam stars, the […]
2019-2-27 19:49 | |
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Trust Wallet, a Binance-backed multi-cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized applications (DApps) browser, today announced it has integrated Zcoin (XZC), a privacy coin from the pioneers of the Zerocoin protocol.
2019-2-26 13:55 | |
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Weriz is a platform that builds a bridge between people trying to fulfill their daily needs and local businesses seeking active customers. For a long time, business directories, from simple browsable lists to more advanced map-based applications have been the dominant solution.
2019-2-19 17:33 | |
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From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation about the future of sex and relationships. Behind the headlines, a number of companies are currently developing robots designed to provide humans with companionship and sexual pleasure – with a few already on the market.
2019-2-19 11:35 | |
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Data breaches, widespread malware attacks, and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018. As technologies change, so does the advice security experts give for how to best stay safe.
2019-1-12 12:30 | |
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Privacy-focused bitcoin wallet Samourai is having its hand forced by Google. According to a Samourai blog post, the wallet provider is disabling privacy features that are key to its design before its latest version, 0.
2019-1-9 23:29 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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