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Japanese Crypto Exchanges to Enforce FATF’s Travel Rule Next Month
10.3.2022
All of Japan’s crypto exchanges will adopt the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s Travel Rule on April 1 – a move that means most of East Asia’s biggest trading platforms will have begun complying with the controversial protocol before the law even obliges them to do so....
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Monero, Kyber Network and Tornado Cash break out as traders pile into privacy protocols
9.3.2022
Bitcoin’s bullish surge and the urgent need for shielded crypto transactions appear to be benefitting XMR, TORN and KNC
‘People Will Get Burned’: Matt Odell on the Long Road to Bitcoin Privacy
9.3.2022
Privacy advocate and hardcore bitcoiner Matt Odell discusses CoinJoins, privacy coins and “canaries.”
Monero’s XMR, Zcash’s ZEC Jump as Privacy Coins Gain Favor
9.3.2022
Crypto exchanges blocking known addresses might be spurring demand for privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies, one analyst said
Espresso Systems Raises $32M to Bring Scaling and Privacy to Web 3
7.3.2022
The funding was led by Greylock Partners and Electric Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital
Crypto Wallet Trends in 2022: More Privacy, Security, Features, and Choice
6.3.2022
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Cryptoasset ownership and adoption continue to increase steadily, encouraging new investments and developments in the crypto wallet market too.
In fact, data compiled by Statista shows that downloads of the ten most popular wallet apps began to take off from December 2020, while...
Umbrel Bitcoin Node Runners Now Help to Bypass Internet Censorship
3.3.2022
Users running Umbrel Bitcoin (BTC) and Lightning nodes can now also help others to bypass internet censorship by installing the Snowflake proxy app on their nodes. It might help censored journalists and other people to access the free and open internet safely....
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Forget Data – Privacy Is the New 'New Oil'
27.2.2022
When even Mark Zuckerberg says there’s a “clear trend” away from data collection, you know the pendulum is swinging
JoinMarket Is About to Make Bitcoin Privacy More User-Friendly
25.2.2022
Developers hope the forthcoming JoinMarket UI will give people an easier way to use CoinJoins to keep their Bitcoin transactions private
The Unlikely Fix to Crypto's Privacy Failures: Government
25.2.2022
The industry can't fix what ails Web 2 without support from states like the U.S., says CoinDesk's chief content officer
Ergo’s Privacy Summit Tackles Privacy and Security in DeFi
25.2.2022
After the economic crisis of 2008, trust in financial institutions and governments fractured. At the same time, Satoshi proposed a new financial system rid of government and central bank control. The technology would cryptographically record transactions on a decentralized ledger known...
Senator Rand Paul Warns the US Has Similar Statutes to Emergencies Act in Canada
24.2.2022
U.S. Senator Rand Paul says “statutes that allow presidents or heads of state to invoke emergencies are very, very dangerous.” Commenting on Canada’s Emergencies Act invoked by the Trudeau government, the senator warned, “We have the same sort of statutes here.”...
De-Mixing Wasabi Coinjoin Transactions: A Deep Dive Into Chainalysis’ Deanonymizing Claims
23.2.2022
On Tuesday, journalist Laura Shin published a story that claims to identify the 2016 Genesis DAO hacker who siphoned 3.6 million ethereum from the decentralized autonomous organization. While the story surprised the crypto community, one of the biggest eye-openers was the blockchain analysis...
Another Suspect in Ethereum's DAO Hack Emerges, Putting Coin Mixing Under Question
22.2.2022
A prominent crypto journalist has published a remarkable j’accuse article claiming to unmask the identity of the 2016 hack on The DAO, which saw a raider make off with ETH 3.6m, now worth over USD 9.4bn. However, what is possibly more important, it put the popular coin mixing technology under...
Facebook Faces Legal Fight with Australian Billionaire over Crypto Scam Ads
22.2.2022
Meta’s Facebook has filed legal documents in rejection of an action brought by the Australian billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, the nation’s richest man. The latter claims the social media platform should be held liable for “reputation-damaging” crypto scam ads that made use of images...
Buzzfeed’s Bored Ape NFT dox: Danger to crypto or journalistic integrity?
21.2.2022
As the identities of more and more pseudonymous crypto personalities continue to get outed, experts weigh in on the value of anonymity
How Internet Users Can Reclaim Online Privacy Through Incentivized Digital Marketing Platforms?
21.2.2022
Online privacy is becoming increasingly important in the digital era; more people are concerned about how corporations are using their data. As it stands, service providers in the Web 2.0 ecosystem reap most of the benefits attributed to users’ data, either by selling it to third parties...
The Metaverse will bring a further erosion of privacy
20.2.2022
The Metaverse isn’t coming, it’s already here. And that’s why we look at its impact on our privacy and how decentralization could help
We are all going public: Privacy rules, tax shelters and the future history of art
20.2.2022
Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, exchanges will need to navigate conflicting aims for the required transparency and the desired anonymity
Keep Your Coins Act: US Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Protect Privacy in Cryptocurrency Transactions
19.2.2022
A U.S. congressman has introduced the “Keep Your Coins Act” in order to “preserve Americans’ right to privacy in transacting with crypto assets.” The lawmaker says, “this legislation would prohibit any federal agency from promulgating a rule that would...