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ShapeShift Delists Privacy Coin Zcash Over Regulatory Concerns
10.11.2020
XMR, DASH and ZEC "were delisted at the same time for the same reason – to further derisk the company from a regulatory standpoint."
Digital Voting Is Coming. Let’s Do It Right.
10.11.2020
Cryptographic techniques, like zk-SNARKs and blockchains, could ensure online voting is secure and private
Grin Network Victim of 51% Attack, Unknown Miner Commands 58% of the Hashrate
10.11.2020
The privacy-centric cryptocurrency network Grin (GRIN) has been the victim of a 51% attack according to a number of reports. Allegedly an unknown entity gained control of over 57% of the network hashrate on Saturday. According to the Grin website, the team is recommending people wait...
Monero podcaster loses NY congressional race
9.11.2020
“Monero aligns with the ideals America was founded upon. It is America 2.0 — a protocol to preserve liberty in the digital age,” said Tuman
Grin network hit with 51% attack while GRIN token remains resilient
8.11.2020
An unknown mining group currently controls more than half of the Grin blockchain’s hashing power
Privacy Coin GRIN Is Victim of 51% Attack
8.11.2020
A 51% attack occurs when a miner (or miners) acquires more than 50% of the network's mining hash power and takes control of the network
20 More Block Rewards from 2010 Spent Today— Why Are Decade-Old Bitcoins Waking Up?
8.11.2020
Following the 21 coinbase rewards from 2010 spent on November 7, another long string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ mined a decade ago were transferred on Sunday morning. According to onchain data, the 20 block rewards from 2010 with 1,000 BTC were transferred at 4:02 a.m. EST. A...
Another Mysterious String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Mined in 2010 Moved Today
7.11.2020
On November 7 at around 12:37 a.m. (EST), another string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ were moved for the first time since 2010. The peculiar movement stemmed from 20 blocks from 2010 with approximately 1,000 BTC spent ($15.5 million) in a single block. 2020 has been a wild year...
California’s Prop. 24 Could Be a ‘Silver Lining’ for Crypto Exchanges Looking to Comply With GDPR
6.11.2020
Chair of the Prop. 24 advisory board and crypto advocate, Andrew Yang, thinks it could set a new bar for data privacy rights across the U.S
South Korea To Ban Crypto Exchanges From Handling Privacy Coins
6.11.2020
South Korea is to ban crypto exchanges from handling digital assets it considers “dark coins”. Regulator Financial Services Commission (FSC) is specifically targeting privacy coins such as dash, monero and zcash. ● The ban is with effect from March 2021. In an update to crypto...
Wasabi Wallet 2.0 Will Offer Automatic CoinJoins by Default to Boost Privacy
5.11.2020
One of the main Wasabi Wallet 2.0 improvements is not just to the CoinJoin design through WabiSabi, but also its usability. We could see it debut in about nine months
Blockstream’s MuSig 2 Will Offer Less Complex, More Private Multi-Signature Transactions
4.11.2020
Made possible by Taproot, MuSig2 is designed to make multi-signature Bitcoin transactions less complex without sacrificing privacy
Crypto.com: We Got the Highest Ratings on Privacy, Security Based on US Standards
4.11.2020
The crypto exchange and finance platform said it got high ratings for privacy and security using standards developed by a U.S. government agency
‘Digital Mercenaries’: Why Blockchain Analytics Firms Have Privacy Advocates Worried
4.11.2020
Blockchain surveillance highlights the tension between further crypto transparency that encourages wider adoption and its cypherpunk roots
South Korean financial watchdog to ban privacy coins
3.11.2020
Virtual asset service providers in the country will not be allowed to handle “dark coins.”
Brave Browser: number of monthly users increases 130% in 1 year
2.11.2020
Brave has now onboarded 20 million active users and almost 1 million content creators
South Korean Regulator Bans Privacy Coin Trading, Beefs up Crypto AML
2.11.2020
South Korea’s financial regulator is flexing its muscles with a series of new amendments to forthcoming crypto regulations – with new anti-money laundering (AML) provisos and a ban on privacy coin trading.
On Monday, Per Fn News and ZDNet Korea, as well as Paxnet, the regulatory Financial Services...
The crypto compliance lie: Sacrificing privacy does not make us safer
31.10.2020
The lightchain-vs.-darkchain dichotomy is counterproductive, and a healthy graychain will produce more valuable crypto assets like Bitcoin
People Want Data Privacy But Don't Always Know What They're Getting
30.10.2020
Gabriel Kaptchuk , Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University.
Elissa M. Redmiles, Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute.
Rachel Cummings, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute...
Law Decoded: How I learned to stop worrying and love the election, Oct. 23-30
30.10.2020
The age-old question quis custodiet ipsos custodes crops up in force in today's Law Decoded