2023-2-10 23:01 |
The EU's comprehensive Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation is ambitious and sets a high standard globally. Article 68, however, goes too far and poses a risk to innovation, privacy and security. origin »
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Some users took to Twitter to bemoan what some are calling a continuing attack on privacy in the wake of the U.S. Treasury Dept.’s action against Tornado Cash.
2022-8-22 00:03 | |
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VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are online privacy solutions that safeguard your online activities from hackers, lower the risk of being followed online, and even allow you to access prohibited Netflix and other streaming content from other countries.
2022-6-10 18:11 | |
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Fundamental aspects of Bitcoin’s properties are at risk if privacy isn’t viewed as paramount to further development.
2022-3-10 03:00 | |
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Bitcoin is one of the most secure cryptocurrencies out there with thousands of miners securing the network. An analyst shares the impacts of Bitcoin failing with privacy, free speech and objective truth in danger.
2022-1-31 17:09 | |
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The developers of Monero (XMR) recently discovered a bug capable of exposing transactions of its users. Even though the team is working to fix it, they have announced that users’ privacy is at risk as long as the bug remains.
2021-8-7 19:32 | |
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Users' privacy are no longer guaranteed on privacy-focused cryptocurrency protocol Monero (XMR) due to the presence of a software bug in its decoy selection algorithm. Users Who Spend Monero Faster At More Risk Of Exposure According to a statement made by Monero (XMR), the bug was investigated by software developer Justin Berman.
2021-7-28 20:36 | |
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At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, crypto exchanges crackdown on privacy coins. This resulted in Monero, Zcash, Dash, and others being de-listed from these platforms. Regulators from around the world exerted pressure on these entities to “reduce the risk” and “protect” consumers from the alleged dangers of these cryptocurrencies.
2021-7-22 20:26 | |
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Among the most popular cryptocurrencies for mining are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Filecoin, Chia. Each has a relatively high investment risk, poor outlook, and questionable use-cases. What if there were a cryptocurrency that had no such weaknesses? Such is the condition of the exclusive and fully integrated privacy coin of the Utopia Peer-to-Peer Ecosystem, Crypton (CRP). InvestmentRead More
2021-6-22 17:41 | |
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According to a white paper by the law firm, most money laundering is committed...
The post Privacy coins are not a major laundering risk | Perkins Coie appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-9-17 12:59 | |
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At the moment, Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum are all on their way to integrating and implementing privacy features. While concerns persist that these developments could end up elevating these cryptoThe post Litecoin's privacy upgrade: Hidden inflation a risk 'users will be willing to take' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-22 00:30 | |
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Contact tracing researchers fear Europe could choose a centralized system that puts personal privacy at risk.
2020-4-21 22:37 | |
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Bitcoin, although the most popular representative of the cryptocurrency space, does not lead every nook and corner of it. In fact, there are specific areas where certain altcoins have taken the lead oThe post Will Bitcoin's improving privacy put Monero, Zcash, Dash at risk? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-11 18:00 | |
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The American government’s long-running war on privacy escalated this week following the arrest of Coin Ninja’s Larry Harmon on money laundering charges. A Department of Justice statement that “seeking to obscure virtual currency transactions in this way [using mixers] is a crime” means that bitcoiners risk prosecution simply for exercising their right to privacy.
2020-2-14 15:00 | |
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Centralized cloud storage services put users’ data at risk due to their architecture which is based on storing information on a single server. Bitcoin has proven to allow the peer-to-peer, censorship-resistant transfer of value and now RIF, powered by RSK, aims to add the identity, storage, communication, gateways, micro-payments, and gateways layers to allow theRead MoreRead More.
2020-1-16 12:00 | |
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BitBay exchange is the latest to delist the privacy-focused monero cryptocurrency over AML concerns.
2019-11-26 15:20 | |
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Technology is woven into every aspect of our lives, from the fitness data on our Apple Watches to the automatic brake sensors in our cars. As a result, there are massive amounts of readily-available data that have intensified debates around data privacy and protection.
2019-10-16 20:00 | |
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P2P Bitcoin exchange Localbitcoins faced fresh controversy this week after appearing to warn users not to use privacy-focused web browser Tor. Localbitcoins Raises Concerns About Tor Privacy As noted by transaction compliance expert Richard Bensberg on September 9, the company hung a banner on its website which claims Tor users face increased risk of theft.
2019-9-10 19:00 | |
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Samourai, a Bitcoin privacy wallet, came out last Thursday and announced that Wasabi Wallet, it’s the biggest competitor, is the target of an ongoing network attack. The announcement by Samourai becomes the latest in a string of allegations the wallet provider has put out against their competitor.
2019-8-8 22:29 | |
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Caspian, a leading crypto asset trading and risk management platform for institutional investors, has launched its pairs trading functionality. Since its founding 19 months ago, Caspian has seen its trading volume steadily increase, with it exceeding $1 billion for the first time in June 2019.
2019-8-6 13:30 | |
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A massive outage on Facebook and Instagram revealed hidden “tags” given to users photos on the popular social media platforms – tags that are used by the company to market to its users. It also may have revealed how their Libra cryptocurrency will become a Trojan Horse into user data.
2019-7-5 04:00 | |
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One of the most concerning things to come from Facebook’s cryptocurrency reveal is the number of traditional finance players who are supporting it. These are many of the same people who shunned Bitcoin, and other cryptos, and still shun them.
2019-6-20 21:52 | |
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One of the most concerning things to come from Facebook’s cryptocurrency reveal is the number of traditional finance players who are supporting it. These are many of the same people who shunned Bitcoin, and other cryptos, and still shun them.
2019-6-19 21:52 | |
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As technological innovation evolves, society evolves with it. The problem is, with each new innovation also comes risk. Whether it opens us up to new security issues or debates over our personal privacy, we’re moving fast towards a future with a lot of unknowns.
2019-6-12 11:40 | |
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StarkDEx has announced the launch of their flagship product, a decentralized exchange, in partnership with Starkware Industries. In their own words, STARKs remove the glass ceiling on non-custodial transactions and offer customers the ability to trade at scale without counterparty risk, June 3, 2019.
2019-6-6 15:00 | |
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Apple has marketed itself as a company that puts customers’ privacy first, but a new class-action lawsuit claims to the contrary. Leigh Wheaton, Jill Paul, and Trevor Paul — three iTunes users from Rhode Island and Michigan — filed a federal lawsuit against the Cupertino-based tech giant alleging that the company unlawfully collects and sells their iTunes listening information to third parties without informed consent.
2019-5-27 11:23 | |
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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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By CCN: “Corda is more like Bitcoin,” says Mike Hearn, lead engineer for Corda, the open source blockchain of the industry consortium R3. “It owes more of its intellectual history to bitcoin than Ethereum in a way.
2019-5-13 13:06 | |
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Security breaches are not something new when it comes to the Internet. Nearly all online users are widely believed to spend over 45% of their time in the messaging platforms, whilst the risk of private data leaks remains very high.
2019-5-2 23:31 | |
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The Zcoin team discovered a vulnerability in the cryptography of the Zerocoin protocol that allows an attacker to forge zero-knowledge proofs and create coins out of thin air. Coins using the protocol such as Veil are vulnerable to attack until Zerocoin is disabled.
2019-4-29 22:01 | |
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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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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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Earlier this week, Binance Research released a report on the implications of the Monero hard fork, which occurred on March 9. On one hand, the research provided a detailed report on the privacy and security update that went live during the upgrade, while on the other hand, the report concentrated on ASIC miners and the […] The post Monero’s [XMR] hashrate drop by over 70% slightly increases ‘risk of a 51% attack’ appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-3-27 13:30 | |
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There’s a setting that popular Ethereum service MetaMask doesn’t enable by default, and its putting users‘ privacy at risk. MetaMask works as a gateway to decentralized apps (dapps) running on Ethereum’s blockchain.
2019-3-23 19:07 | |
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CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics company, is partnering with the Republic of Malta’s sole financial regulatory agency to ensure that all crypto transactions within the country are free of money laundering and other similar financial crimes.
2019-3-14 00:14 | |
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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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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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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
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The developers that work on a crypto called Beam, which is focused on being a privacy coin, have affirmed that they have discovered a critical bug that could have put their wallets at risk. Fortunately, the bug was uncovered last then and it was quickly patched up before anything happened. Despite the fact that they […]
2019-1-17 00:20 | |
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The "critical vulnerability" found by developers of the mimblewimble privacy coin Beam is said to have put user funds at possible risk of being stolen.
2019-1-17 20:45 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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It’s a sign of the times and the growing maturity of the crypto industry that a new industry trade association launched in Washington, D. C. , on September 11, 2018, to lobby the U.
2018-9-22 22:46 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Monero (XMR) users have been complaining after finding out that cryptocurrency exchange Changelly can effectively “steal” their cryptocurrency. Changelly has been accused of requiring KYC documents after funds leave the wallet according to a tweet from September 4, 2018.
2018-9-6 18:00 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Reports out today highlight yet another security vulnerability within Monero XMR, a cryptocurrency designed for optimum privacy. Now we already know of the associations between Monero and malicious mining, but this marks another example of how XMR traders and investors have been put at risk, simply due to the markup of the currency.
2018-8-2 17:00 | |
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U.S policymakers seem to be doing their best to suffocate dollar on-ramps into crypto, leaving the door open for other mature markets to gain a competitive edge.
Russian troops in Ukraine receive millions in crypto donations, despite international sanctions. CoinDesk investigates how these funds are flowing and talks to fundraisers.
Sportswashing and crypto company hubris are no longer in play in Super Bowl commercials this year. And that's a good thing.
Whereas corporations accumulate capital, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) accumulate engagement and focus on returning benefits to all participants.
Moves to outlaw staking and stop banks from servicing crypto companies will harm the industry and send it overseas, says CoinDesk's chief content officer Michael Casey.
In a CoinDesk exclusive, the co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronow, shares a frank letter touching on his recent diagnosis of heart failure and responding to accusations of racist and nazi imagery embedded within the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project.
FTX’s collapse is an inevitable outcome for an industry yet to find its use case. For crypto to survive, it needs to learn from the very financial sector it set out to replace, says Brent Xu, the CEO of Umee.