2019-8-6 07:00 |
Bitcoin privacy wallet Samourai announced last Thursday that its primary competitor, Wasabi Wallet, is the target of an ongoing network attack. origin »
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By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data.
2022-6-30 10:00 | |
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By sharing a secret between a receiver and sender, then scanning the Bitcoin blockchain for the transaction, users gain more privacy thanks to a new proposal.
2022-5-26 05:00 | |
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The alpha release of Teleport implements the CoinSwap privacy technique in an effort to improve bitcoin privacy by making transactions "invisible."
2022-3-12 20:41 | |
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Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.
2020-5-12 18:00 | |
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BTCPay, an open-source Bitcoin payment platform has joined hands with PayJoin to offer an added layer of privacy to the Bitcoin transactions on its platform. Payjoin is among the latest privacy tools available in the market and is believed to offer better privacy protection than the popular alternative Coinjoin.
2020-4-19 00:15 | |
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2018 and 2019 saw Bitcoin's security and decentralization receive major updates. 2020, however, seems like a year for Bitcoin privacy. Although not a lot has been happening for on-chain privacy, seconThe post Bitcoin's increasing privacy features receive another boost by P2EP implementation appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-17 14:30 | |
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Litecoin has undertaken to create a new privacy upgrade, using techniques that were initially developed for Bitcoin. The proposal will enable users to access an opt-in privacy software by making MimbleWimble transactions on an Extension Blocks kind of side-chain.
2019-12-3 18:03 | |
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Almost 200 developers are reviewing bitcoin improvement proposals that could usher in enhanced privacy and scalability for the premier cryptocurrency.
2019-11-18 22:20 | |
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It’s a common misconception that Bitcoin transactions are completely private and anonymous. Whilst Bitcoin does offer greater level of privacy than traditional banking, users of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can have their transactions tracked through the public distributed ledger, and potentially give away valuable information.
2019-5-16 15:24 | |
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Bitcoin needs privacy, plain and simple. Fortunately, developers are waging this war on several levels. Let's take a look at some of the upcoming proposals. The post Bitcoin’s Long Road to Privacy appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-4-21 19:34 | |
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The Bitcoin Cash development team has launched the mobile crypto storage app Neutrino, which is reported to have more features ensuring privacy than other wallets
2019-3-27 20:08 | |
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As private enterprises gather around the tracking possibilities of pseudo-anonymous Bitcoin, the crypto community is becoming all too aware of the necessity of privacy applications. Such a need has generated bushels of altcoins each hoping to outdo the last.
2018-12-29 00:00 | |
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Greg Maxwell’s Taproot Privacy Tech Set To Be Released Bitcoin has been pretty unpopular because of its privacy. As a result of this shortcoming, developers have long been trying to find a fix, or at least improve it over time.
2018-8-15 21:42 | |
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Bitcoin could get better privacy with Taproot, but there's one big obstacle - it can't be deployed until another technology goes through.
2018-8-15 07:02 | |
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At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy.
2018-8-15 22:02 | |
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The anonymity and privacy that is offered by Bitcoin transactions are appealing to a wide variety of web hosting customers. Bypassing financial institutions and government regulations, Bitcoin transactions typically require little or no processing fees and can be used by companies and customers in all countries that have access to the Internet, including countries that […]
2018-8-13 01:06 | |
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This week’s top stories include two feature interview: one with Kavita Gupta, founding managing partner at ConsenSys Ventures; and another with electronic dance music DJ Justin Blau (aka DJ 3BLAU) who is launching a decentralized music festival.
2018-8-13 20:52 | |
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A new way to trade bitcoin and digital currencies is now in the books. SparkSwap is the first crypto exchange to be built on the Lightning Network. It allows users to trade both bitcoin and altcoins in seconds without depositing assets with a third party.
2018-8-10 18:32 | |
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Bitcoin is a permissionless ledger. In plain English, that means you don’t need to ask anyone’s damn permission to use it. There are no terms and conditions to read, no checkbox to tick, and no forms to sign before you can send or receive bitcoin.
2018-8-10 17:10 | |
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ZCash (ZEC) is a popular source code fork of Bitcoin (BTC), just like Litecoin (LTC). The purpose of its creation was to address privacy issues that users of Bitcoin (BTC) faced and also to curb centralization with its Equihash based proof of work model.
2018-8-10 17:07 | |
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Bitcoin Press Release: Privacy-based cryptocurrency Deviant Coin has just announced its Whitepaper Release along with its Hardware Wallet and DEX exchange. 10th August 2018, Toa Payoh, Singapore – Deviant Coin (DEV) is a privacy based cryptocurrency aimed at providing users with a wholesome and secure crypto experience.
2018-8-10 13:49 | |
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Amir Taaki is an ambitious hacker, coder and philosopher to say the least. He is infamously known as the bitcoin developer, and was also part of the teams that created Darkleaks, Dark Wallet and OpenBazaar.
2018-8-9 11:38 | |
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Bitcoin lacks native privacy and anonymity. Its transactions are public for everyone to see and are broadcasted in real time. To counter this problem, people often rely on mixing services to obtain at least a degree of privacy.
2018-8-7 19:00 | |
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Ever since it first appeared, the blockchain technology has been tightly connected with cryptocurrencies and has become almost synonymous with Bitcoin. However, while this IS the purpose for which the blockchain was first created, this technology has evolved a lot and has reached tons of new appliances.
2018-8-6 14:17 | |
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The Breeze Wallet with the Breeze Privacy Protocol public mainnet has been released and is now open to the public. The wallet showcases Stratis technology — a platform built for visual basic apps and blockchain solutions — and places heavy emphasis on both privacy and security for businesses seeking to implement business-to-business (B2B) transactions on the Stratis and Bitcoin blockchain networks.
2018-8-4 00:02 | |
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The introduction of cryptocurrency sparked much excitement in the liberty-minded community. The freedom to conduct financial transactions without government or institutional interference is viewed as a leap towards a better autonomy for individuals.
2018-8-3 02:00 | |
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Stratis has announced the launch of the Breeze Wallet that delivers the industry's only fully functional wallet and truly decentralized privacy solution for Bitcoin. The move provides a high degree of privacy and security for organizations seeking the benefits of blockchain payments.
2018-8-3 00:58 | |
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Imagine a new digital economy, one that allows everyday people to take full control of their personal data. Complete with a public chain for data transactions and application development, this system would foster a trustworthy, domain-wide data exchange that capitalizes on the torrent of advancements taking place through blockchain technology.
2018-8-1 20:41 | |
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Wasabi Wallet wants to make the usage of Bitcoin (BTC) fully anonymous. Accomplishing a complete privacy on a public blockchain, however, is a very hard task to tackle.
2018-8-1 12:49 | |
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Security and volatility. They are the two aspects of cryptocurrencies that are attacked the most. While there are other challenges such as scalability, the energy consumption associated with mining, and privacy, cryptos’ volatility is often cited by skeptics as the reason they could never become a mainstream payment method. In 2017 alone, Bitcoin’s value rose […]
2018-7-31 23:00 | |
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Bitcoin. com has reported that the market caps for many privacy coins have decreased significantly over the course of 2018. Although privacy coins are still among the leading cryptocurrencies, they no longer occupy a single position in the top ten list.
2018-7-30 16:26 | |
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Bitcoin. com has reported that the market caps for many privacy coins have decreased significantly over the course of 2018. Although privacy coins are still among the leading cryptocurrencies, they no longer occupy a single position in the top ten list.
2018-7-30 05:06 | |
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The darknet site founded by Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, has been offline for years now. But the legal questions behind his conviction and subsequent sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, remain fresh, raw and real to Ulbricht’s advocates.
2018-7-28 23:38 | |
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BitGo, a California-based blockchain security firm offering institutional grade custodial services for a variety of cryptocurrencies, is now supporting Zcash, as announced by the firm on July 25, 2018.
2018-7-27 07:00 | |
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New York, NY Internet of People (IoP) is a digital cooperative using blockchain and revolutionary peer-to-peer technology to help everyone connect and do business free from censorship or obstruction and without compromising their digital privacy.
2018-7-26 20:30 | |
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Bitcoin wallets come in many shapes and sizes. Most of these creations offer something different, even though they all seem to lack privacy features. Wasabi Wallet may solve that problem once and for all when the project launches on August 1st.
2018-7-25 19:00 | |
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Wasabi is a unique desktop friendly wallet which is only compatible with the anonymizing Tor browser. It boasts of being the pioneer mainstream light wallet to offer CoinJoin transactions. These transactions will be dispatched simultaneously effectively hiding their sources.
2018-7-25 23:53 | |
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However, Samourai Wallet’s Android app, arguably the bitcoin industry’s leading privacy wallet since the project was founded in 2015, has garnered at least 27,000 downloads. Although funds are otherwise viewable on the blockchain itself, Wasabi will be the only wallet that obscures from nodes how much bitcoin the total wallet holds. Plus, Samourai Wallet offers
2018-7-24 09:56 | |
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These cypherpunk crypto wallet projects want to bring fungibility to bitcoin.
2018-7-24 07:00 | |
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Criminals still tend to favor Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to mask their activities. That is not an advisable course of action, as most of these currencies lack both privacy and anonymity features.
2018-7-22 16:00 | |
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Bitcoin is making progress on a tech upgrade that will improve its speed, scalability and privacy. Schnorr will clear up space on the blockchain by containing signatures. The result expected is relief for transaction backlog and the high fees that go along with it.
2018-7-17 23:37 | |
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The Bitcoin movement has brought with it a tidal wave of activity in cryptocurrency investments and trading. As a result, crypto market capitalization soared to an all-time high of around $820 billion in early January of 2018.
2018-7-13 17:51 | |
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In a first for China, an illegal World Cup gambling ring has been busted holding more than $1. 5 billion in live bets – all in cryptocurrencies. Six major suspects are in custody. Nestled in a southern Guangdong province, the syndicate is reported to have themselves been sitting on $1.
2018-7-13 11:49 | |
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Also read: Bitcoin.com and Purse.io Bolster Spending Giving New Shoppers $ 10 in BCH Cash Shuffle Development and Testing Progresses Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents will soon see the stable release of a mixing application that will help preserve an individual’s transaction privacy when using the BCH network. The BCH mixer Cash Shuffle was launched this past December
2018-7-13 06:11 | |
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Back in December, a new privacy protocol was released for bitcoin cash users called Cash Shuffle. The application has seen steady development since its inception and this week Cash Shuffle developers say that the platform’s alpha testing has been successful and the team has seen lots of testers.
2018-7-13 04:05 | |
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Termed “Finney,” in homage to Bitcoin evangelist Hal Finney, the latest Sirin Labs phone is priced at $1,000 and boasts of powerful computing software and unmatched privacy. The post Coming Soon: The Sirin Labs $1000 Cryptocurrency Focused Phone appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-13 01:11 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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In May 2018, TokenPay Swiss AG joined with WEG Bank in Germany. The former attained a 9. 9 percent stake in the bank, along with the option to purchase as much as 90 percent, pending regulatory approval.
2018-7-11 01:20 | |
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Despite declining daily transactions, NVT has begun to decrease, suggesting more on-chain value is being transmitted. SegWit and batching have massively improved scalability going forward for the next swath of heavy network usage.
2018-7-9 07:50 | |
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Don't count on being able to access like wasabiwallet.io, api.wasabiwallet.io, and zksnacks.com — if you're a U.S. citizen that is. Wasabi Wallet confirms ban.
ZkSNACKs, developer of privacy-preserving Bitcoin wallet Wasabi Wallet, has announced that users from the United States will be blocked from accessing its products and platforms until further notice.
Wasabi Wallet — a software wallet meant to enhance Bitcoin (BTC) privacy through mixing — accused their main competitor Wasabi of running a “psyop” through their educational project Coinjoins.
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Trezor collaborates with Wasabi Wallet to integrate the privacy-enhancing CoinJoin feature.
Криптокошелек Chivo, которым управляет правительство Сальвадора, начал замораживать счета пользователей и требовать подтверждение источника средств.<br /> <br />
With a lack of funding, the Tor project is struggling to defend against denial-of-service attacks, putting Bitcoin projects at risk.
Is Chainalysis telling the truth? Do they have a super-secret decoding tool that can break Wasabi CoinJoins? The jury is out on that one. This article contains all the evidence available, though. Yesterday, journalist and Unchained Podcast host Laura Shin broke the Internet by allegedly identifying the Ethereum DAO hacker. In the article detailing the […]