2019-12-9 16:05 |
On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now. origin »
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Facebook — inarguably the world’s largest facial database — has a lost a federal appeal in a class-action lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions of users without their consent.
2019-8-9 08:11 | |
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Just when we thought Facebook’s Libra couldn’t be subject to any more scrutiny, it turns out that data protection bosses from all over the world have banded together to share concerns about the ‘cryptocurrency’s’ potential privacy risks.
2019-8-6 14:49 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceMultiVAC, a high-throughput public blockchain platform based on trusted sharding computation, has announced a strategic partnership with ARPA, a privacy-preserving computation network.
2019-8-5 13:07 | |
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First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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Nowadays, the existence of tracking software on all of our devices is basically public knowledge. In addition, the last few years have made clear that Facebook tracks the behavior of its users in order to personalize the ads on their site.
2019-7-18 18:58 | |
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Xeonbit is one of the first private digital currencies for secure payments guaranteed to provide its holders with security and privacy features that no other network can offer. This unique project offers a top-notch blockchain that uses a special technology called “ring signatures” which shuffles users’ public keys in order to eliminate the possibility to […] The post Xeonbit Tokens Explained In Detail appeared first on NullTX.
2019-7-10 19:41 | |
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Ross Ulbricht is best known for being one of the rare individuals to serve two life sentences without parole for creating and operating darknet website, Silk Road. Ulbricht shared a hand-written article named ‘Who Deserves This?’ from the other side of his cage, as an urge to the general public to fight for his freedom.
2019-7-1 22:30 | |
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Decrypt’s Tim Copeland attended a developer conference hosted by the Electric Coin Company in Croatia. He reports that the company is considering the most significant possible changes to its product, Zcash.
2019-6-25 09:46 | |
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Less than a week ago, Facebook officially announced its own cryptocurrency and released a whitepaper to the effect. The Libra, controlled by Facebook itself and 27 other firms which make up The Libra Association, will be officially launched in 2020.
2019-6-24 20:55 | |
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Qtum and Beam begin global privacy hackathon with $25K grand prize - CryptoNinjas Qtum, the open-source public blockchain platform, and Beam, the scalable, confidential cryptocurrency, today began hosting the 2019 Qtum & Beam Privacy Hackathon.
2019-6-19 22:21 | |
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A new research study has found that Venmo continues to make it easy for third-parties to scrape users’ public transaction history without their permission. Dan Salmon, a computer science student at Minnesota State University, has published a new data set of over seven million Venmo transactions on GitHub collected over a six month period.
2019-6-17 10:24 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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CryptoNinjas QLC Chain, a public chain for decentralized Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) and Opacity, a private encrypted file storage system powered by crypto, today announced a partnership will enhance the QLC ecosystem with storage services in communication applications.
2019-5-31 14:53 | |
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Big Four company, Ernst and Young, will release its anticipated Nightfall, a privacy protocol, to the public on May… The post Ernst & Young Wants Ethereum To Go Mainstream appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-30 06:39 | |
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Vitalik Buterin, one of the co-founders of the Ethereum network and also known as the public face of the network, has recently come up with the idea which could be used to upgrade the privacy of the network.
2019-5-24 01:59 | |
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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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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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Prysmatic Labs, an Ethereum development team focused on implementing Ethereum 2. 0, including full proof-of-stake and sharding, has launched a public testnet for phase 0 of it. This is a significant milestone as phase 0 testnet will allow users on the network to stake their ETH and become validators.
2019-5-10 13:36 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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According to a study released by Longhash on April 29, 2019, the relative usage of CoinJoin out of all bitcoin transactions has tripled in one year, currently sitting at 4.
2019-5-2 23:50 | |
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Amazon Web Service, an arm of Amazon Inc. announced on April 30 that the Amazon Managed Blockchain is now available for public use. The Amazon Managed Blockchain is an entirely organized service which allows customers to design and command scalable blockchain platforms easily.
2019-5-1 14:59 | |
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The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance will officially start the token swap for its native coin today. The BNB tokens on the Ethereum blockchain will be migrated to the Binance Chain which was launched a few days ago.
2019-4-23 16:59 | |
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One of the most important features of any project being worked on for the cryptocurrency industry is security. All related firms including manufacturing companies, exchange firms and even the makers of the cryptos themselves are always looking for new ways to not only make transactions as cheap as possible but also to ensure privacy and […] The post BNB Not Replacing ETH As EY Concludes Plans to Release its Zero-Knowledge Proof Transaction Protocol On The Public Ethereum network appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-4-21 11:03 | |
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Over a billion dollars have been raised for the reconstruction of Notre Dame. People with deep pockets have seized the opportunity to throw their money around, and Binance refuses to miss a marketing opportunity.
2019-4-18 17:56 | |
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By CCN: In four-to-six weeks, a blockchain product developed by Ernst & Young (EY), one of the “big four” professional services organizations, will be made public domain (open source). Privacy and Public Blockchains: A Tall Order From Large Enterprise Dubbed “EY Ops Chain Public Edition,” the technology uses zero-knowledge proofs to give permissions to transaction information similar to Monero and other privacy coins.
2019-4-17 19:33 | |
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CryptoNinjas The IOST Foundation, the overseer of the IOST blockchain network, today announced its strategic partnership with ARPA, a leading privacy-preserving computation network. ARPA will provide privacy protection and computation security on the IOST public chain as a Layer 2 solution.
2019-4-12 16:16 | |
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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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John McAfee, creator of “McAfee virus,” was in the news after a news media outlet falsely accused him of a “pump and dump” scheme with the privacy coin, Apollo. However, the outlet later retracted the accusation, offering McAfee an apology.
2019-4-5 22:30 | |
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The adoption of privacy coins is seriously on the rise even with a lot of contentions by major players in the cryptosphere. The anonymity level of some cryptocurrencies is under question as it is possible to trace transactions profiled on the public ledger “Blockchain”.
2019-4-4 05:56 | |
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Several outlets and crypto programmers have pointed out for a year or more that MetaMask, by default, broadcasts your Ethereum public key (address) to websites you visit. The assumption is that this is a privacy vulnerability – most sites have no need for such information, after all.
2019-4-2 21:13 | |
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Every day, millions of people use Google Docs to share and collaborate on documents. And when it comes to working on documents online, few tools match the power and versatility of Google Drive and Google Docs.
2019-3-30 15:16 | |
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Facebook has been going through some tough times when it comes to public sentiment. The platform has lost 80% of its market cap in the last 12 months and as for the company’s owner, Mark Zuckerberg, he’s also lost $19 billion in the process.
2019-3-18 20:28 | |
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Bitcoin always had significant issues with privacy as its public addresses are relatively easy to track, robbing owners of anonymity and their coins of fungibility. Zcash was one of the first projects to attempt to fix this problem by introducing privacy-related elements into the world of cryptocurrency.
2019-3-16 19:04 | |
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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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Human Rights Foundation Debates If Privacy Of Bitcoin Could Protect Journalists From Danger Journalists and cryptocurrency are an unlikely twosome, but the Human Rights Foundation recently published a blog post that would bring these two subjects together.
2019-3-13 01:46 | |
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You may remember when new privacy laws were passed in the European Union (EU) recently and almost all the sites you visited warned you that they changed their policies, right? Well, unfortunately, the public blockchains are yet to be fully adequate to this new legislation, according to Sam Palmisano, the retired chairman of IBM. Palmisano, […]
2019-3-6 01:18 | |
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After a week of community discontent, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to sever its business relationship with Neutrino employees who previously worked at the notorious Italian malware/software provider Hacking Team.
2019-3-5 19:09 | |
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Retired IBM chairman Sam Palmisano says he doesn’t know of a solution that has been found to make public blockchain networks compatible with European data privacy laws
2019-3-5 12:41 | |
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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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Privacy is an issue often talked about in the world of crypto. Most of the currently existing platforms utilize open, public ledgers which offer little in the way of protecting the amounts you send and who you send them to.
2019-2-25 03:50 | |
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In 2017, AMARK set out to build a better local marketing system by replicating proven online marketing techniques and applying them to physical businesses. The system improves the effectiveness of local marketing by targeting ads based on consumer interests and compensating consumers for their attention.
2019-2-23 15:03 | |
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The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments to steal our privacy and restrict our speech and autonomy. What should exist are neutral, technical standards and protocols, like the standards and protocols for blogs, email, and the Web.
2019-2-20 12:41 | |
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A Japanese company called Recruit, which is known as the local equivalent of LinkedIn, Booking.com, Yelp, Zillow and others into a single app has announced that it has invested in cryptos. The company has invested in Beam Development Limited, the company that created the BEAM tokens. We are happy to reveal that Japanese public group, […]
2019-2-19 06:12 | |
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Over the last few years, infighting and different visions has led to significant divides within the Bitcoin community, weakening the network effects no matter which chain you support. With all the arguments about scaling, privacy, consensus changes and the various forks, it is amazing that these public networks are still thriving.
2019-2-14 19:55 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Among the general public, Bitcoin is often viewed as a sort of anonymous online payment method for activities like buying drugs on darknet markets. However, the digital cash system is still far from anonymous, private, or even fungible.
2019-1-31 13:02 | |
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This is the seventh instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4, on Day 5 and on Day 6.
2019-1-29 01:51 | |
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