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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live
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. дальше »
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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11 aspects to consider when adopting smart home technologies
With smart home technologies constantly growing in popularity, there are several things consumers should understand about these devices in regards to features and long-term benefits, as well as potential issues or privacy risks. дальше »
2019-4-19 12:00 | |
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Op Ed: Bitcoin Is Turning Left vs. Right Into Big Data vs. Privacy
The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets. дальше »
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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How Mark Zuckerberg wants governments to regulate content on online platforms
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s now into blogging. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the Facebook CEO asked governments around the world to consider introducing more transparent rules for moderating content on the internet. дальше »
2019-4-1 12:57 | |
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PSA: MetaMask reveals your Ethereum address to sites you visit, here’s how to hide it
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. дальше »
2019-3-23 19:07 | |
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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem
Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems. дальше »
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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Brothers in bear market: What do Nano, Digibyte (DGB) and Bytecoin (BCN) have in common?
If we look at them from tech viewpoint – these three are completely different. From use case stance, Nano and DGB are both aiming to be payment coins, BCN to a lesser degree as well (primary focus is privacy protection). дальше »
2019-3-22 02:54 | |
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What is Taproot – New Bitcoin Privacy Tech
Bitcoin’s struggles with privacy and efficiency have been described numerous times in the past, but we’ll do it once again before moving onto the topic of today’s article. The language Bitcoin was originally scripted in allowed its developers to define the terms of spending transaction outputs. дальше »
2019-3-21 15:57 | |
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CipherTrace Partners with Maltese Regulators to Manage Risk of Financial Crimes
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. дальше »
2019-3-14 00:14 | |
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From Hogwarts to Cryptography: What Is MimbleWimble?
Privacy and scalability are two of the most prevailent topics in the blockchain industry. Bitcoin, the brainchild of Satoshi Nakamoto offers a decentralized, peer-to-peer, and transparent alternative to fiat currency. дальше »
2019-3-13 17:00 | |
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Human Rights Foundation Debates If Privacy Of Bitcoin Could Protect Journalists From Danger
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. дальше »
2019-3-13 01:46 | |
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Zuckerberg is Finally Discovering Privacy But Advertisers Are Quitting Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is boasting that the social media platform is going to shift its focus to users’ privacy by encrypting messages. He says that the company won’t even be able to access these messages. дальше »
2019-3-11 09:59 | |
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‘Satoshi’ Craig Wright Brags about Destroying Anonymous Coins Monero, Zcash
Dr. Craig Wright is back. And this time, he is out to destroy the societally menacing anonymous coins. The Australian computer scientist and alleged creator of Bitcoin told CNBC Africa’s Ran Neuner that he knows how to kill Zcash and Monero. дальше »
2019-3-10 16:41 | |
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Canadian Federal Tax Agency Targets Bitcoin Investors
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. дальше »
2019-3-9 23:53 | |
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BSV Leader Craig Wright Claims His Privacy Coin Technology Can Make ZCash And Monero Traceable
Craig Wright Claims He Has The Technology To Make ZCash And Monero Traceable Craig Wright, the Chief Scientist at nChain, said that he is working on a technology that would make transactions on Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) traceable. дальше »
2019-3-6 22:36 | |
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Reacting to Public Ire, Coinbase Drops Neutrino Execs With Hacking Team Ties
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. дальше »
2019-3-5 19:09 | |
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Coinbase Bought Neutrino Because Its Old Analysis Providers Sold User Data
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. дальше »
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto
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. дальше »
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners
When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition. дальше »
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Decentralized Payment Processor BTCPay Adds New Invoicing Options
Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups. дальше »
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder
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. дальше »
2019-2-20 12:41 | |
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Weriz ICO
Weriz is a platform that builds a bridge between people trying to fulfill their daily needs and local businesses seeking active customers. For a long time, business directories, from simple browsable lists to more advanced map-based applications have been the dominant solution. дальше »
2019-2-19 17:33 | |
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ISIS Affiliated Website Akhbar al-Muslimin Takes Bitcoin Donations to Make Use of BTC Anonymity
While crypto has done a lot of good in the world by allowing people to send money at record speeds and removing the monopoly held by large Institutions, there has been a significant number of downsides to the use of the currencies. дальше »
2019-2-17 22:26 | |
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Grin Coin Buoyed By Exchange Listings
For a new cryptocurrency, Grin sure is making a lot of investors happy these days. The privacy coin, which only made its debut a month ago, has already scored listings on at least two leading crypto exchanges — Bittrex International and Poloniex. дальше »
2019-2-16 18:58 | |
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Bitcoin’s Social Contract Must Be Resilient to the Whims of Future Generations
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. дальше »
2019-2-14 19:55 | |
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Watch: Facebook Alum. Sean Parker Bashes Amazon, Warns Echo is Spying on Every Word You Say
Facebook founding president Sean Parker wants you to know that Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Echo devices are listening to every word you say and may be filing away your private conversations for future use. дальше »
2019-2-14 23:18 | |
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DMME (DMME) Stats Live
Today DMME (DMME) stats have gone live for all to view. These stats are 100% accurate. Users can now see their ROI as well as additional details in the stats.DMME is the solution to messaging app privacy! Using blockchain technology your information is safe and secure. You can't trust дальше »
2019-2-10 01:18 | |
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Facial recognition tech sucks, but it’s inevitable
Is facial recognition accurate? Can it be hacked? These are just some of the questions being raised by lawmakers, civil libertarians, and privacy advocates in the wake of an ACLU report released last summer that claimed Amazon’s facial recognition software, Rekognition, misidentified 28 members of congress as criminals. дальше »
2019-2-9 10:30 | |
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Can I Trust BitFury’s Peach Lightning With My Data? Maybe
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. дальше »
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Can I Trust Bitfury’s Peach Lightning With My Data? Maybe
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. дальше »
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Zcash Discloses Inflation Bug That Could Have Created Infinite Tokens
Privacy-focussed cryptocurrency, Zcash, has disclosed an inflation bug, discovered 11 months ago, which affected its own and several other privacy-coins. Though the Zcash vulnerability has now been remedied, it took 8 months after discovery, and some coins remain exposed. дальше »
2019-2-7 23:00 | |
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This week’s Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained
With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the Facebook–Google–Apple saga that’s seen numerous developments with major privacy implications over just a few hours. дальше »
2019-2-1 14:56 | |
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GDPR Can’t Stop Behavioral Ads, But These Bitcoin-Friendly Browsers Can Help
The GDPR has lofty goals when it comes to protecting consumer privacy. But even if you’re opting out and blocking cookies, you’re still being tracked. According to a group of privacy advocates in Europe lead by Brave privacy browser, advertisers can even track victims of sexual abuse. дальше »
2019-1-29 23:00 | |
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The Mimblewimble Privacy Coin GRIN Listed on KuCoin Crypto Exchange
KuCoin, a crypto exchange based in Singapore, recently announced that it was adding various trading pairs for the newly launched GRIN privacy coin. The trading pairs for GRIN on KuCoin are GRIN/ETH, GRIN/BTC, and GRIN/USDT. дальше »
2019-1-26 21:57 | |
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Graftroot: How Delegating Signatures Allows for Near-Infinite Spending Variations
This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain. дальше »
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so. дальше »
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Ad blockers threaten digital marketers’ ability to understand customers
Digital advertisers know they’re screwed. Digital marketers don’t. Considering statistics like one in four US internet users are now blocking ads on a regular basis, coupled with the ongoing privacy battles over user data, it’s easy to see the challenge for digital advertisers. дальше »
2019-1-21 15:30 | |
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How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security
In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to photos users hadn’t shared on their timeline, including photos they had posted in Facebook Marketplace or Stories. дальше »
2019-1-19 20:00 | |
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Grin is all the rage these days: Is it worth an investment?
Grin, a new privacy cryptocurrency that uses the mimblewimble technology, had its first block mined and gone live on mainnet. Grin is a blockchain/cryptocurrency focused on privacy and scalability that wants to change the way we use digital money. дальше »
2019-1-16 13:23 | |
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How to Safely Use Cryptocurrencies in a More Private Way? Tips for Using Bitcoin Anonymously
Cryptocurrency users are becoming increasingly aware that it is more difficult than never before to have their privacy protected, even using digital assets. As cryptos expand all over the world, regulatory agencies and governments try to impose Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) policies to exchanges and other platforms in the space. These KYC and AML […] дальше »
2019-1-12 21:13 | |
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Keep your digital life secure with these 6 simple tricks
Data breaches, widespread malware attacks, and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018. As technologies change, so does the advice security experts give for how to best stay safe. дальше »
2019-1-12 12:30 | |
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Google Forces Samourai Wallet to Disable Three Key Features
It would appear as if the technology giants are opposing privacy in the cryptocurrency world. Apple maintains a very strict stance on applications pertaining to such currencies. Google is now actively cracking down on these offerings as well, as the Samourai Wallet team has found out first hand. дальше »
2019-1-10 07:09 | |
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Bitcoin Wallet Forced to Drop Key Privacy Features From Google Play App
Privacy-focused bitcoin wallet Samourai is having its hand forced by Google. According to a Samourai blog post, the wallet provider is disabling privacy features that are key to its design before its latest version, 0. дальше »
2019-1-9 23:29 | |
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Google twists Samourai Wallet’s arm to disable privacy features
Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin wallet provider, is temporarily disabling some of its privacy-related features following a request from Google. The company, founded in 2015 by privacy activists, said in a blog post that it would be disabling three key features (Stealth Mode, Remote SMS and SIM Switch Defense) “due to restrictive Google Play Store Policies. дальше »
2019-1-8 19:12 | |
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Blockchain Can Help Individuals Control Their Privacy And Take Power Away From Corporations
Blockchain Can Help Individuals Control Their Privacy And Take Power Away From Corporations During the last dozens of years, the internet evolved and allowed multinational corporations to increase their presence in the market. дальше »
2019-1-5 20:54 | |
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Neutrino: A Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Protocol
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server. дальше »
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing
October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency. дальше »
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
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Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase
Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. дальше »
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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