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How to Keep Bitcoin Cash Transactions Private
28.6.2019
There are many reasons to keep bitcoin cash transactions private and the top six ways to make them anonymous are outlined in a new video by Bitcoin.com. Meanwhile, the Financial Action Task Force has just released its global guidance for crypto assets, effectively calling on countries and crypto...
Grin Developers Agree to Alter Technical Development Roadmap
27.6.2019
The public turnaround may have positive effects for chip manufacturers' bottom line, but what about mass-market miners?
Snowden: ‘The Most Important Thing Bitcoin Is Missing Right Now Is Privacy’
27.6.2019
Snowden used bitcoin to buy encrypted services to talk with journalists in 2013
Singapore Central Bank: Concerns Over Facebook’s Libra ‘Not Trivial’
27.6.2019
Singapore’s central bank held discussions with Facebook about its upcoming libra cryptocurrency
Samourai Wallet Releases Privacy-Enhancing CoinJoin Feature
25.6.2019
The new feature is easy to activate but may be difficult to execute at scale
Chainalysis Whistleblower Shares Company Secrets in Explosive AMA
25.6.2019
A current or former Chainalysis employee has gone rogue and conducted an AMA on r/Bitcoin in which he disclosed sensitive information about the company’s blockchain forensics capabilities. The whistleblower then appears to have had a change of heart and deleted all their comments. Thankfully...
Enforcement of Updated Crypto Guidelines From FATF Has Far-Reaching Implications
25.6.2019
The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has revealed updated guidelines that would require cryptocurrency and digital asset exchanges—and potentially independent business owners and crypto holders—to share sensitive customer information as VASPs (Virtual Asset Service Providers)...
Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: Bad for Privacy, Bad for Competition
25.6.2019
Allowing Facebook to mint its own coin would turn it into the greatest monopoly in history, argues Signature Bank's chairman
Coinbase CEO Praises Privacy While Allegedly Blacklisting Anonymous Transactions
24.6.2019
Praise towards privacy coins expressed by co-founder and CEO of major U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase attracts criticism
Coinbase CEO Praises Privacy While Allegedly Blacklisting Anonymous Transactions
24.6.2019
Praise towards privacy coins expressed by co-founder and CEO of major U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase attracts criticism
New Blockchain To Be Developed For Privacy Coin ZCash, Will Be Able To Serve 10bn Users by 2050
24.6.2019
Minters of ZCash cryptocurrency, Electronic Coin Company (ECC), has announced that they will build a new blockchain for the token. The new blockchain will be scalable enough for about 10 billion users till 2050. Created in 2016 by a team led by Zooko Wilcox, ZCash was touted to be the next...
Firm Behind Zcash to Introduce New Version of Protocol With Sharding
23.6.2019
The Electric Coin Company is building a scalable blockchain with sharding in an attempt to make zcash more widely usable
Firm Behind Zcash to Introduce New Version of Protocol With Sharding
23.6.2019
The Electric Coin Company is building a scalable blockchain with sharding in an attempt to make zcash more widely usable
Why Ethereum’s Privacy Matters and What’s Being Built to Support It
23.6.2019
With the goal of boosting adoption, these four projects are building tools that advance privacy on ethereum
Is decentralization the future for cloud storage?
21.6.2019
Cloud storage as we know it today has been around for over a decade. It has proven to be a great tool for saving files, and it is incredibly widely used nowadays. Storing files on the cloud is incredibly practical, […]
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Wanxiang City Partners With PlatON, a Blockchain Privacy Startup, To Build Tracking Infrastructure
21.6.2019
China will build a blockchain-managed live-work district in Hangzhou
Wanxiang and PlatON Join Forces for Blockchain Infrastructure of New Smart City in China
20.6.2019
Auto giant with multiple subsidiaries, Wanxiang, has partnered with PlatON to create blockchain solutions for future smart city in Hangzhou
Privacy Coins Are Among Best Performers This Week
19.6.2019
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Cryptocurrencies that focus on the privacy of their users are among the best performers in the past week, with some of them doubling in value.
What do the numbers show?
The one that seems to be performing the best in the past seven days is Beam, which has been...
Privacy Is Paramount: How KYC Makes Us All Less Free
19.6.2019
KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and endless private data collection, coupled with force-backed, violent legislation compromise the utility and ethics of crypto trading. An uncompromising stance on user privacy is critically important to crypto traders and peer-to-peer transaction. It’s...
Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: A Technical Deep Dive
18.6.2019
Technical details of Facebook's Libra blockchain were published Tuesday in a white paper by the Libra Foundation. Here's what stands out