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Chainalysis says it can track 99% of transactions involving Zcash, and almost all of Dash’s – coins that both fancy themselves as private and untraceable. Now, that’s because the majority of users do not utilize the optional privacy-enhancing features available on the two blockchains, it said in a June 8 blog, announcing support for the […] The post Not So Private: 99% of Zcash and Dash Transactions Traceable, Says Chainalysis appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-6-10 01:31 | |
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30% of the privacy-focused tool’s deposits come from dark web market, says leaked report... The post Wasabi, the Bitcoin mixer wallet, is on Europol’s radar for a ‘significant amount’ of dark web transactions appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-6-5 19:34 | |
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China may be making plans to include its central bank digital currency (CBDC) in international transactions. That’s the rub according to NEO blockchain CEO Da Hongfei who Tweeted on Wednesday: “Da Hongfei, founder of blockchain platform Neo, says the central bank could split part of the digital currency for use outside of China, much as […] The post China May Use CBDC in International Transactions: NEO Chief appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-6-4 19:38 | |
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MimbleWimble is a privacy-focused protocol for obfuscating Litecoin (LTC) transactions. Its developer David Burkett has shared an updated roadmap of MW implementation
2020-6-3 15:32 | |
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Cryptocurrencies have been around for more than a decade, so you’d think that banks would have come to terms with fiat money’s chief rival by now. Even Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan, the largest U.
2020-5-5 00:20 | |
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The Bitcoin Association, which promotes Bitcoin SV, says the BSV network is now able to rival credit card processor VISA in terms of transactions per second
2020-4-29 05:52 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino says he hopes pToken – a project he has assisted – will make it easier for retail USDT holders to swap their tokens from one chain to another.
2020-4-27 20:20 | |
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A few hours before Bitcoin flipped $7,000, a US Congressional candidate called it a store of value. Meanwhile, BTC adjusted volume of transactions has hit a new low
2020-4-6 11:50 | |
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U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler and her husband sold up to $3.5 million in stock after a Jan. 24 briefing on COVID-19, but ICE says the transactions were conducted by financial advisors who had no input from the two.
2020-3-20 20:53 | |
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Real disruption in financial services means creating new plumbing for transactions, not nicer apps on top of existing rails, says CoinDesk columnist Lex Sokolin.
2020-2-27 19:28 | |
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Longtime Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fan Roger Ver seems to be changing his mind on Bitcoin (BTC). Segwit transactions are “unfairly cheap,” he said. Bitcoin critics are having a harder time attacking the project after SegWit has proven to lessen transaction costs on the network.
2020-2-25 19:34 | |
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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is expected to ramp up its cryptocurrency-related enforcement actions, a tax law office warns. US Revenue Agency Looking to Crack Down on Crypto Tax Evasion The IRS has not been explicit on how would it treat taxes related to cryptocurrency transactions.
2020-2-22 20:00 | |
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Chainalysis’ 2019 crime report found illicit activities accounted for roughly 1 percent of overall crypto transactions last year, and better enforcement of anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations could stamp out a large portion of that.
2020-1-30 00:15 | |
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Authorities in Ukraine are planning to track all crypto transactions that exceed $1,200, says Oksana Makarova, the Ministry of Finance’s head in the country. The matter was discussed in an interview with MC Today, a local news outlet.
2020-1-28 00:45 | |
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A study says that IOTA (MIOTA) is much more friendly to the environment as it can do almost 6 mln transactions for every one Bitcoin (BTC) transaction
2020-1-27 20:50 | |
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2019’s decentralized finance (DeFi) boom that has led to more than $785 million being locked in crypto assets is giving accountants serious headaches. Antoine Scalie, the CEO of accounting startup Cryptio says complex assets and transactions make it for the accounting to be more difficult.
2020-1-18 00:33 | |
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Justin Sun, the founder and CEO of TRON, has announced that a TRON-based privacy coin is one step closer to reality. TRON initially announced plans for private transactions in January 2019. Since then, TRON added the feature to its testnet in July and opened it to beta testers in December.
2020-1-7 10:44 | |
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Unlike traditional ones, cryptocurrency wallets store a lot of relevant information such as the secure private key used to access Bitcoin addresses and carry out transactions, etc., And while there arThe post Bitcoin wallets and safety: Phone wallets are the second-best, says Andreas appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-23 00:30 | |
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Lowering the costs of private transactions in this way makes the public ethereum blockchain more competitive with private chains, EY says.
2019-12-19 15:11 | |
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A new Bluetooth-based tech could snowball into a way to create truly private transactions, its creator says.
2019-12-19 13:00 | |
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The fintech startup Tradeshift says they have been using the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain in order to process cross border transactions. This allowed the firm to reduce costs and make payments between buyers and suppliers faster and more reliable.
2019-12-18 21:42 | |
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Supply chain fintech startup Tradeshift, which boasts two million firms on its platform, says it's slashed the cost of cross-border transactions between buyers and suppliers using the public ethereum blockchain.
2019-12-18 17:00 | |
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A Federal Reserve official supported a study claiming that 25% of Bitcoin users and 50% of transactions are in some way illegal
2019-12-19 14:36 | |
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According to the blockchain analysis firm Ciphertrace, major U. S. banks process roughly $2 billion in digital currency transactions that go undetected every year. Ciphertrace disclosed a slew of financial institutions have not deployed the right KYC/AML infrastructure to detect unregistered cryptocurrency transfers.
2019-12-17 03:30 | |
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The first week of Lightning Network support at cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, has seen more than 800 transactions make use the Bitcoin payments layer. The company’s Chief Technical Officer Paolo Ardoino says customers have deposited more than seven Bitcoin (~$52,000) to the exchange since it added Lightning payments.
2019-12-10 23:00 | |
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From the beginning of August, all Brazilian civilians have to report their crypto transaction to the Department of Federal Revenue (RFB). The Bill to do so was introduced as Normative Instruction No.
2019-8-2 17:42 | |
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Congressman Brad Sherman, a vocal critic of the crypto industry, again called for a complete ban on cryptocurrencies. Sherman said Bitcoin had no real use other than to fund illicit activities and warned about the risks cryptocurrencies pose to the political and financial stability in the U.
2019-7-20 21:44 | |
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Министр финансов США Стивен Мнучин заявил, что через биткоин и другие криптовалюты проходят миллиарды долларов, вовлеченных в незаконную деятельность. По его мнению, поставщики услуг в сфере цифровых денег и традиционных финансовых услуг должны регулироваться одинаково.
2019-7-19 15:12 | |
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Coinspeaker Trump Has the Power to Ban Bitcoin, But Can He Really Do It?Trump says that he is not a fan of cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, but can he ban its transactions and operations in the United States or Congress stands in his way legally?Trump Has the Power to Ban Bitcoin, But Can He Really Do It?
2019-7-15 15:50 | |
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Blockchain startup Algorand cited incorrect Bitcoin stats while marketing its own network. The startup claimed that its network handled over 50,000 transactions in less than a month, which it said was equivalent to what Bitcoin does every six months when the network actually does 1.
2019-7-13 20:25 | |
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With crypto-adoption rates rising across the globe, major exchanges such as Binance have started integrating a number of features onto their platform to improve user experience. The principal aim of most of these industry heavyweights is to make cryptocurrency transactions straightforward, so that usage of digital assets is effortless.
2019-7-11 22:30 | |
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Coinspeaker Kakao Makes Big Claims, Says its Klaytn Blockchain is 15x Faster than EthereumKakao stated that the Klaytn blockchain platform can process 300 transactions every second against Ethereum's 20 transactions.
2019-7-10 10:10 | |
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Hello and welcome to another Monday and with that, another Moonday Morning – where we take a look at the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain news. Here’s Hard Fork’s selection of last weekend’s top stories: 1.
2019-7-8 12:27 | |
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Post Facebook’s unveiling of its upcoming cryptocurrency project, Libra, a lot has been said and written on the privacy and security factors of these digital assets. In the light of privacy coins’ dominating the limelight this month, Coinbase Co-founder and CEO, Brian Armstrong, tweeted, “A scalable, sufficiently decentralized, chain that supported private transactions by default […] The post Financial security would make better, freer world says Coinbase CEO; as Zcash heads to secure its network appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-23 20:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: What do Coinbase Global CFO Alesia Haas and Overstock. com CEO Patrick Byrne have in common? Both believe that security tokens are the future, according to a panel discussion hosted by Fortune.
2019-6-21 06:00 | |
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One of the Big Four financial auditing and business services firms, PwC, wants to lend a hand to cryptocurrency businesses and help them keep track of their blockchain transactions. In an announcement released yesterday, PwC says the addition will be made to its suite of auditing tools called Halo.
2019-6-20 14:55 | |
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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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A crypto project is trying to solve bitcoin scalability issues by increasing the block size limit. The new platform enables a higher speed of transactions per second and secures the blockchain from attacks #SPONSORED
2019-6-11 15:02 | |
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Last week, the Bitcoin price peaked at around $9,100. Since then, it, along with the rest of the market, has been in decline. The question on everyone’s lips is, what will happen next? Renowned analyst, Willy Woo, on analyzing the Network Value to Transactions (NVT) ratio found a significant divergence between price and organic investor.
2019-6-6 15:37 | |
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Many analysts and experts in and outside the crypto ecosystem have suggested that there are very few people actually spending Bitcoins, rather they are just accumulating it. Data from New York-based blockchain researcher Chainalysis Inc.
2019-6-4 18:50 | |
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By CCN: Research by Chainalysis finds that only 1. 3% of bitcoin transactions so far in 2019 came from merchants. The remaining 98. 7% of volume is all on the exchanges. That means almost no one is using bitcoin to buy things.
2019-6-2 18:18 | |
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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] received a major boost after Sa Xiao, Council Member at the Bank of China’s Law Research Association, said that it should be legal for people in China to own Bitcoin [BTC], despite the government’s ban on crypto transactions and assets.
2019-5-22 17:30 | |
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The latest Bitcoin [BTC] bullish wave saw many analysts in the crypto-sphere crediting the growing Lightning Network [LN] adoption. The payment protocol for the crypto transactions faced much criticism and some fork coin enthusiasts even alleged that the tech was “riddled with inconsistencies”.
2019-5-18 17:30 | |
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Blockstream Satellite received overwhelming attention from the crypto-community for its unique feature which enabled users to execute Bitcoin [BTC] transactions without an Internet connection. Samson Mow, Blockstream’s Chief Strategy Officer appeared in the latest Keiser Report discussion featuring Max Keiser.
2019-5-18 13:02 | |
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A bug was reportedly exploited on Bitcoin Cash during a scheduled hardfork upgrade of the protocol. For an hour and a half transactions went unprocessed, causing fees to skyrocket. A source familiar with the project says the exploit “looks like a timed attack,” while other rumors are circulating that the “attacker” placed a 180,000 BCH short […] The post Bitcoin Cash exploit cripples network during scheduled hardfork upgrade appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-5-16 21:43 | |
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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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That Binance could have colluded with miners to roll back hack transactions means bitcoin is not resistant enough to censorship, says Amir Taaki.
2019-5-10 10:15 | |
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China’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, will ban crypto trading and transactions on apps by the end of May.… The post WeChat To Ban Crypto Trading And Exchange Activities, Binance CEO Says It’s Good Long Term appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-8 09:19 | |
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Неизвестный инвестор попытался обменять 50,43 млн USDT на AAVE через агрегатор CoW Protocol и биржу SushiSwap. В итоге он получил только 327 токенов стоимостью около $36 000. Источник: Etherscan.
В ноябре 35,5% блоков EVM-совместимой сети BNB Chain подверглись «сэндвич-атакам», что стало рекордным показателем. На это указывают данные дашборда на Dune. Данные: Dune. За неделю с 17 по 25 ноября в блокчейне зафиксированы 645 активных MEV-бота.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is examining Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) as a potential form of illegal market abuse under its proposed technical standards for the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation.
There's been tension among members of the Ethereum developer community – even though the ETH price is mooning due to growing anticipation that U.S. regulators might give the green light to spot ether ETFs.