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The founder of the Wasabi Wallet called the decision a major setback for Bitcoin’s fungibility, while one of the developers advocated for the use of other privacy coordinators over zkSNACKs. origin »
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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.
2021-10-6 09:12 | |
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The success of a store-of-value asset, like bitcoin or gold, isn't just a matter of durability, fungibility or scarcity. It's about whether people believe in it.
2020-12-4 20:58 | |
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After breaking down the charges against Larry Harmon, legal experts Sasha Hodder and Rafael Yakobi examine the case for bitcoin privacy and fungibility. The post Bitcoin Fungibility, Mixing and the Legal Limits on Maintaining Privacy appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-3-18 15:36 | |
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Mixing bitcoins using a noncustodial service increases fungibility without having to relinquish control of your coins. Bitcoin mixing services let you keep your coins and retain your privacy, for nothing more than a modest fee and the time it takes to mix them.
2020-3-4 04:35 | |
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Bitcoin privacy and fungibility are constantly threatened by blockchain analytics tools that allow governments and exchanges to monitor the origin and provenance of bitcoin transactions. These practices can be fought by taking advantage of some bitcoin mixing services such as the one offered by BitMix.
2020-2-5 14:00 | |
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Taproot is designed to increase Bitcoin's fungibility, improve the functionality of smart contracts, and improve privacy by making all transactions appear the same to external blockchain observers.
2020-1-21 14:05 | |
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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.
2020-1-2 22:28 | |
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Crypto asset manager Bitwise has written a letter to the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), addressing the regulator's concerns of market manipulation, which was cited as one of the reasonsThe post Bitcoin’s fungibility helps insulate bitcoin: Bitwise in letter to SEC appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-22 10:30 | |
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Twenty-three leading central banks participated in an in-depth survey on their digital currency developments and requirements, including fungibility, convertibility, and availability. They also discussed the timeframe for issuing consumer-ready central bank digital currencies and divulged their greatest concerns about implementing them.
2019-11-2 17:18 | |
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"I see less about privacy and more about fungibility. So I think in order for Bitcoin and Litecoin to be like useful money it really has to fungible," said Litecoin creator Charlie Lee when enquired aThe post Litecoin's MimbleWimble via EB to bring fungibility, privacy: Charlie Lee appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-2 16:30 | |
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Engineers and developers are continuously working to provide Bitcoin with technological improvements. Now, most likely, the next Bitcoin technological breakthrough will come through the Schnorr + Taproot soft fork.
2019-10-8 23:30 | |
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Fungibility has always been an issue at the heart of Bitcoin. The debates surrounding the same are never-ending. Most commentators in the cryptocurrency industry are of the opinion that Bitcoin can be used as a mode of payment, only if it becomes perfectly fungible.
2019-6-24 14:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Bitcoin educator and promotor Andreas M. Antonopoulos published a new video today in which he pointed out that Facebook’s Libra project doesn’t amount to a “real” blockchain. Is Facebook's Libra a real blockchain? No.
2019-6-18 19:17 | |
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Bitcoin though the number one cryptocurrency, has its shortcomings. One of the major weaknesses is its inability to scale due to the limited block size, making it impossible to include more transactions in a block even though more people are getting into Bitcoin.
2019-6-10 03:36 | |
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Bitcoin privacy is expected to improve with a few key proposals that are currently being worked on by Core developers. Let’s take a look at the most interesting ones. Privacy Means Better Bitcoin Fungibility For the vast majority of Bitcoiners, major forks aside, Bitcoin seems fairly solid and unchanging.
2019-6-8 03:00 | |
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The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol and infrastructure continue to see relentless development. The Electron Cash Cashshuffle implementation has enhanced bitcoin cash fungibility by providing users with the ability to shuffle coins.
2019-5-21 22:25 | |
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At TNW2019, Francis Pouliot, CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin exchange BullBitcoin, gave a technical overview of the cryptocurrency’s network, focusing on how it works, and what it’s capable of. During his presentation, Pouliot rounded up Bitcoin’s core value and primary directives.
2019-5-10 15:28 | |
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Even though decentralization, anonymity, and fungibility represent the “holy grail” of crypto and code is considered to be the only “law” of the land, we have seen several notable individuals rise above these principles and acquire significant wealth and influence over everyone else.
2019-4-17 18:55 | |
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The author of ”Mastering Bitcoin” and notable educator Andreas Antonopoulos has claimed bitcoin’s domination is under threat over the next few years due to privacy concerns. Design and Fungibility: important things for longtime success At the Deconomy Conference in South Korea, the crypto guru shared his opinion regarding Bitcoin’s future in light of the unaddressed privacy issues.
2019-4-10 11:32 | |
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The establishment of Bitcoin [BTC] as a currency of the future and its transformation into a mode of payment and a store of value has been the primary goal of the cryptocurrency community. A decade since the coin first emerged, its prospects have looked bleak, claimed Andreas Antonopoulos, the author of Mastering Bitcoin.
2019-4-10 10:30 | |
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Andreas M Antonopoulos seems to be worried about the delays that fungibility proposals and improvements on the Bitcoin (BTC) network could harm the space. During a conversation with Diar, Antonopoulos discusses how Bitcoin needs to face some challenges even after becoming widely known in the last years. Bitcoin Needs To Be Fungible There are several […]
2019-4-9 21:11 | |
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Importance of being anonymous Privacy, anonymity and fungibility are often cited among the problems that Bitcoin currently faces. While many laud this cryptocurrency as a decentralized form of payment in many ways more anonymous than traditional cash/electronic fiat, in reality there are certain limits to this anonymity.
2019-3-21 14:46 | |
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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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Lee, the LTC creator recently explained the fungible nature of BTC and LTC during a crypto show. Samson Mow, the Blockstream CSO, also chipped in and talked about tainted coins. Before talking about the fungible nature of BTC and LTC, Lee talked about why privacy and fungibility were important. He said that this would be […]
2019-2-14 20:38 | |
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Litecoin, in an attempt to focus more on privacy and fungibility, will be cooperating with Beam.Read More. The post by Neil Matthew appeared first on BTCManager, Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency News
2019-2-8 18:00 | |
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Charlie Lee, Founder and Managing Director of the Litecoin foundation, has on numerous instances mentioned on twitter about plans of adding Confidential Transactions through a soft-fork on the LTC blockchain.
2019-2-7 17:24 | |
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According to a January 28, 2019 Tweet from Charlie Lee, Litecoin will be experiencing a soft fork this year that will bring privacy and fungibility to the coin. A Change is Coming Litecoin is set to become more fungible and private according to a January 28, 2019 tweet from Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin.
2019-2-1 21:00 | |
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Litecoin must be getting tired of standing in Bitcoin’s shadow. After many years as Bitcoin’s second fiddle, Litecoin core developers are getting more interested in following the likes of privacy coins such as Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC).
2019-1-30 22:54 | |
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“Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin” according to Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s creator
2019-1-30 19:55 | |
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Charlie Lee, via twitter, announced that the Litecoin foundation has plans of implementing confidential transactions on the network to make LTC more fungible. He stated that fungibility was the only feature missing from both Litecoin and Bitcoin.
2019-1-29 19:52 | |
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Создатель Litecoin Чарли Ли поделился планами по расширению возможностей альткоина — в этом году разработчики намерены внедрить технологию конфиденциальных транзакций. Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin.
2019-1-29 15:24 | |
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По словам создателя Litecoin Чарли Ли, новым этапом развития «цифрового серебра» станет внедрение технологии конфиденциальных транзакций. Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin.
2019-1-29 11:31 | |
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Создатель Litecoin Чарли Ли в этот понедельник объявил о новом векторе развития его криптовалюты – добавлении конфиденциальных транзакций. Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin & Litecoin.
2019-1-29 09:21 | |
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Charlie Lee, the founder of Litecoin (LTC) and a recognized figure in the cryptocurrency space, posted a tweet in which he says that he is focused on making Litecoin more fungible. In this tweet, he said that fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoin and Litecoin. Charlie Lee has […]
2019-1-29 02:44 | |
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Two of the top narratives in crypto circles is bitcoin’s low transaction speed and lack of privacy and by extension fungibility. With Lightning Network‘s excellent progress, the transaction speed or lack thereof can be checked on the list of things bitcoin needs to work on.
2019-1-29 23:32 | |
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On Oct. 12 the Bitcoin Cash developer Chris Troutner published a new shuffling protocol concept called Tokenshuffle, a platform that aims to anonymize BCH transactions. Meanwhile, the Cashshuffle project has recently outlined the platform’s roadmap and accomplishments so far.
2018-10-15 21:15 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) Remittance And Future Discussed By Abra CEO Bill Barhydt, the CEO and founder of Abra, a crypto exchange, has recently decided to talk about Bitcoin during a conference. He talked about the history of the fiat currencies, their multiple failures and all the potential that Bitcoin has to create a big revolution in […]
2018-10-1 01:07 | |
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These cypherpunk crypto wallet projects want to bring fungibility to bitcoin.
2018-7-24 07:00 | |
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Bitcoin Cash Becomes The Second Crypto To Be Supported on Bob Wallet Privacy-centric Bob Wallet recently added Bitcoin Cash (BCH) support so BCH users can use BCH Testnet coins and experiment with the mixing service.
2018-7-9 20:03 | |
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During 2023, several Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets have risen from dormancy to transfer their BTC to a new address.
In the quarter ended June 30, Exodus' revenue declined by 4% year-over-year, but its results were boosted by 6% cost reductions.
Apple has rejected Bitcoin wallet Zeus over licensing violations, stating that the app facilitates the transmission of a virtual currency but was not submitted by a corresponding exchange or recognised financial institution.
The feature was reinstated after advanced users complained about the constraints of Wasabi’s automated version of coin control called “privacy control,” introduced in a previous upgrade.
C= (pronounced C equals) aims to further the reach of the Bitcoin Lightning Network through added liquidity and routing services.
James Check, the Lead on-chain analyst at Glassnode, explains why self-custodying your private keys has become more important than ever and how to do it in a few simple steps.
The El Salvador official noted that the government is looking to attract more investments to its Bitcoin City with special incentives for businesses investing early.