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The central bank claims its prototype as a success that safeguards flexibility and privacy
2022-10-21 11:59 | |
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The paper makes no claims about the Bitcoin network today, more than a decade after the end of the period analyzed. But it underscores well-known and longstanding privacy challenges.
2022-6-7 04:06 | |
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Stakeholders believe that the digital shekel would boost competition, but remain divided on the matter of privacy.
2022-5-12 18:39 | |
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In an exclusive interview, Belgium’s Assita Kanko tells CoinDesk she just wants to stop anonymous payments being used for crime – but her claims seem unlikely to impress an industry that complains of privacy violations and stifling innovation.
2022-4-1 23:10 | |
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Lawmakers don’t appear swayed by crypto industry claims as they consider applying anti-laundering identification rules to the sector, but some argue their plans are unworkable or unlawful.
2022-3-29 23:08 | |
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Zcash’s founder claims that Satoshi Nakamoto was a cypherpunk with a strong obsession with privacy. The privacy expert disclosed that Bitcoin had failed to become a private form of money. Privacy was a source of concern for both early adopters and new users.
2022-2-2 18:22 | |
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Despite past claims, Dash insists that it's no more private than Bitcoin
2021-1-4 00:55 | |
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The firm claims it will be able to identify XMR used for illicit purposes to support criminal investigations.
2020-11-23 02:25 | |
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The delisting of Dash and Zcash has some wondering about the future of privacy coins on major exchanges.
2020-11-17 17:00 | |
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A spate of exchange delistings has pushed privacy coins further to the fringes of cryptocurrency. The likes of Monero, Komodo, Bytecoin, and ZCoin have all felt the pinch of regulatory compliance in recent times.
2020-9-1 15:22 | |
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Scam selling, a big win for privacy from Apple, new jobless claims in the “whack-a-mole” economy and the biggest BTC options expiry ever.
2020-6-26 22:00 | |
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IOST (IOST), a distributed ledger technology (DLT) project that claims to be focused on delivering the “Internet of Services,” has joined forces with Suterusu, a project that claims to function as a more transparent Zcash (ZEC), with smart contract support.
2020-2-14 14:30 | |
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Litecoin creator, Charlie Lee has been vocal about LTC becoming a privacy coin in the near future. Lee had on-boarded Grin developer, David Burkett to implement the MimbleWimble [MW] protocol and use The post Litecoin's Charlie Lee claims MimbleWimble scales better than Bitcoin appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-29 11:00 | |
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New research from the European central bank claims that a central bank digital currency system that protects user privacy is possible
2019-12-18 17:33 | |
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The Unknown Fund claims to have now donated a total of $75 million to groups and companies working on privacy preserving technology. The Anonymous-promoted Bitcoin fund was first detailed in mid-November.
2019-12-12 23:00 | |
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Zcash, the market’s second largest privacy coin after Monero, recently announced that the Electric Coin Company was considering an entire remodeling of the virtual asset’s blockchain and cryptocurrency.
2019-8-11 20:00 | |
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It hasn’t been a bed of roses for Facebook as it continues to struggle with regulations to enter the world of cryptocurrencies. A host of hearings and proposed regulations by lawmakers has got the cryptoverse anxious about the future of the social media giant’s crypto-project.
2019-8-9 11:30 | |
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Running parallel to the crypto adoption predicament is the need to redefine privacy in finance. Tech juggernaut John McAfee strongly believes this as the main reason why government-built crypto assets are destined to fail.
2019-8-8 15:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency space has some of the world’s most striking personalities fronting it. John McAfee, software pioneer and Founder of McAfee Antivirus, is one of those and he’s in the news again after he surfaced to give an interview to VLTV.
2019-8-7 20:30 | |
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Facebook has been grilled today at a Senate Banking Committee hearing over its cryptocurrency project Libra. As part of the hearing, a representative for the social media giant claims the firm has been in contact with a Swiss agency to oversea data protection and user privacy.
2019-7-17 02:00 | |
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Justin Sun recently sat down in an AMA to discuss the launch of BitTorrent Speed and the features and updates associated with it. The aim of this latest project is to enhance users experience by offering better speed and to empower them with control features, he said.
2019-7-10 03:30 | |
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Last year, India’s top court ruled that the central government’s national identification system – Aadhaar – doesn’t violate the privacy of citizens. Now, there are three major developments on this front that might put privacy activists on high alert.
2019-7-5 16:08 | |
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By CCN: John McAfee fired back at self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright, claiming the Bitcoin “pretender” will soon be unmasked. McAfee, who still intends to run for the U. S presidential office, rebuffed Wright’s earlier accusations of being a scam artist.
2019-6-9 20:50 | |
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Jens Weidmann, the president of Deutsche Bundesbank, the central bank of Germany, said a blockchain trial project used for the transfer and settlement of securities and cash proved slower and more costly than the current traditional methods, Bloomberg reported on May 29.
2019-5-31 21:49 | |
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Ever since the rise of femtech, period tracking apps have vowed to make women’s health easier to control and understand. But lately we’ve seen data and privacy breaches, worrying stats about “success” rates, and questionable marketing strategies.
2019-5-31 15:13 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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The cryptocurrency field has made significant strides over the past decade and the community has witnessed major crashes, as well as surges. Still, in its nascent stage, the current crypto-industry has managed to recover significantly after the crypto crash of 2018.
2019-5-28 02:30 | |
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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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Monero, the privacy coin, and its fundamental features – ring signature, ring confidential transactions, and stealth addresses, have received a lot of attention in the past. However, in a recent edition of the Keiser Report, Nym Technologies’ CEO, Harry Halpin, said that Monero and Zcash were basically “privatizing the blockchain” itself and the sensitive data can be […] The post Monero and Zcash are ‘privatizing the blockchain,’ claims Nym Technologies’ Harry Halpin appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-5-22 01:00 | |
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A new report by a web intelligence platform Indexica claims that Bitcoin has now matured as an asset, which might very well be the key underlying factor to have triggered the asset’s recent rally past an $8,000 valuation.
2019-5-16 16:29 | |
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The privacy oriented digital coin, Monero [XMR], garnered attention from the crypto community after its transactions hit an all-time high following Bitcoin’s pump over $6,500 and BTC breaching subsequent resistances.
2019-5-14 01:00 | |
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In a recent discussion, Claudia Diaz, a Professor at the University of Leuven, and Peter Todd, early Bitcoin Core Developer, teamed up on the sidelines of the Magical Crypto Conference 2019 to talk about Bitcoin’s crypto-anarchist image and privacy issues.
2019-5-14 22:30 | |
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By CCN. com: Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz believes that cryptocurrencies need to be shut down. Demonstrating precisely zero knowledge of the concept of peer-to-peer networks, he told CNBC that he “actually we should shut down the cryptocurrencies.
2019-5-6 16:12 | |
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CEX. IO manages to balance the provision of an exchange platform with advanced services and an interface that is visually appealing, easy-to-use and accessible to newer crypto investors. CEX. IO has been in the cryptocurrency business since 2013, starting as a cloud mining provider, and claims to currently have over a million users, ranging from “Bitcoin beginners […] CEX.
2019-5-4 15:31 | |
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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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Report Claims That Mixed Crypto Transactions Have Gone Up By 300% According to data released by Longhash a couple of days back, mixed cryptocurrency transactions now represent more than 4% of all BTC payments that are facilitated across the globe.
2019-5-1 19:10 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has come out to defend its position after the New York State Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the company and Tether for fraud. Bitfinex maintains that the report claiming that it has lost $850 million at Crypto Capital were false.
2019-4-26 13:59 | |
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Bitcoin is the reigning champion of cryptocurrency criminals. That’s the conclusion of blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, which discovered that bitcoin is used in 95% of crypto crimes. This finding isn’t surprising since bitcoin is by far the most popular and widely used of the 2,000 digital currencies around today.
2019-4-26 19:12 | |
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A report published by Coveware, a company that assists ransomware victims in facilitating cryptocurrency ransom payments, claims that ransom amounts requested following cyber attacks increased by 90% in Q1 of 2019 as compared to Q4 of 2018.
2019-4-23 13:09 | |
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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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Samourai Wallet announced this month that its latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users. What Does Tor Integration Enable?In a conversation with Bitcoin Magazine, Samourai’s lead developer, who is known simply as “TD,” gave a rundown of the Tor integration.
2019-3-27 20:38 | |
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A trio of researchers has found that the cryptographic e-voting system used by the Swiss Post has a vulnerability that enables authorities to manipulate the outcome of elections in an undetectable manner.
2019-3-19 00:00 | |
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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.
2019-3-6 22:36 | |
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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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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.
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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2019-2-16 13:00 | |
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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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Vitalik Buterin has called for a shift to a “local-first” approach to artificial intelligence. He said modern AI tools pose serious privacy and security risks. In a recent blog post, he said AI is moving beyond simple chat tools. Newer…
Ethereum’s co-founfer, Vitalik Buterin, has publicly distanced himself from the Future of Life Institute (FLI), the AI-security driven nonprofit he helped supercharge with a massive SHIB donation in 2021.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the network’s clearest value proposition may not be smart contracts or payments, but something more foundational: acting as a censorship-resistant public data layer.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has clarified the circumstances surrounding his massive 2021 crypto donation to the Future of Life Institute, while distancing himself from some of the group’s more recent policy approaches toward artificial intelligence. Vitalik Buterin: AI safety risks…
Vitalik Buterin has outlined a plan to simplify distributed staking infrastructure on Ethereum, arguing that running validator nodes should not require specialized technical expertise. In a recent social media post, Buterin discussed how the Ethereum Foundation is using a simplified…
Vitalik Buterin has sparked debate within the crypto community after outlining a vision for Ethereum as part of a broader ecosystem of what he calls “sanctuary technologies,” open-source systems designed to preserve freedom, privacy and resilience in an increasingly unstable…