2023-7-6 19:59 |
A central bank digital currency doesn’t have to be a privacy nightmare, says Dea Markova. But privacy is a convenient attack vector for critics of CBDCs.
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By Charles Guillemet, CTO at Ledger. For several decades now, many of us have forgotten that privacy is important because we mistakenly believe that our fundamental freedoms are protected. The bad news is, the digital field is not a democracy-like environment – because it does not safeguard our privacy. When you use a Web2 platform, […]
2022-7-15 11:14 | |
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Lawmakers in the UK have released a damning report on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, calling them “digital gangsters. ” The report refers to Facebook’s deliberate violation of privacy laws and its role in spreading “fake news” and disinformation.
2019-2-18 21:22 | |
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The popular cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, has launched a new Coinbase Earn opportunity with lessons about ZCash (ZEC). ZCash is one of the most popular digital assets in the market that provides privacy features for users using it.
2019-2-16 00:40 | |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the SEC to task for potentially repressive policies related to enforcement actions levied against crypto industry firms. Free speech online is the EFF’s wheelhouse, but in a recent blog post, they’ve also addressed other matters in the cryptosphere.
2019-2-14 22:19 | |
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Unlike many fans of cryptocurrency, Edward Snowden has no problem with the Zcash founders’ reward. The former CIA employee-turned whistle-blower Tweeted his support for the anonymity-focused digital asset earlier today.
2019-2-6 00:00 | |
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The Dayta vision is to solve multiple data protection, consent and privacy issues all at once. The team has designed a roadmap to build a secure, easy-to-use and robust personal information Dapp and exchange mechanism within an integrated, digital ecosystem.
2019-2-5 22:54 | |
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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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Social trading cryptocurrency platform eToro has listed ZCash (ZEC), the privacy-focused cryptocurrency, on its platform. The support of ZEC on the platform, means eToro customers can now buy and sell the decentralized payment network that allows users to protect the privacy of their transactions.
2019-1-25 11:45 | |
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Social trading cryptocurrency platform eToro has listed ZCash (ZEC), the privacy-focused cryptocurrency, on its platform. The support of ZEC on the platform, means eToro customers can now buy and sell the decentralized payment network that allows users to protect the privacy of their transactions.
2019-1-25 11:45 | |
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Tenta Browser is an encrypted digital platform that protects users’ data instead of selling it. The platform provides users with automatic privacy involving full data encryption by default. This encourages true private browsing.
2019-1-22 05:41 | |
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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.
2019-1-21 15:30 | |
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Digital currency markets have seen some gains during the early morning trading sessions on Saturday. Since our last markets update, the entire cryptocurrency economy has gained $4 billion and a slew of the top digital assets are up between 2-6% over the last 24 hours.
2019-1-19 19:00 | |
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Blockchain Technology Moves Towards Achieving Data Privacy In Healthcare The progress of technology has allowed numerous industries around the world to become faster, more accurate, and more efficient, which includes even healthcare organizations.
2019-1-18 19:14 | |
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GLYFF is a decentralized digital platform whose aim is to deliver privacy-preserving smart contracts and transfers of value. This it does by using zero-knowledge cryptography. The platform protects identities, private data, and business intelligence.
2019-1-18 01:09 | |
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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.
2019-1-16 13:23 | |
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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 […]
2019-1-12 21:13 | |
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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.
2019-1-12 12:30 | |
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Mike Novogratz’s diversified crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital announced on Jan. 10 via a blog post that it has started offering Over-the-counter (OTC) trading of Zcash – a privacy cryptocurrency with a hard cap of 21 million coins just like Bitcoin.
2019-1-11 14:59 | |
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Legendary cryptographer and digital money pioneer David Chaum explains to Bitcoinist why his newest project, Elixxir, is focusing on scalable privacy-focused digital cash and why Bitcoin is unlikely to provide similar privacy despite being “tremendously successful as a store of value.
2019-1-8 05:00 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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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.
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
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In October, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech regarding the need to fight back against the “data industrial complex” and create new federal regulations in the United States for protecting consumers’ digital privacy.
2019-1-2 01:05 | |
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2019. 1. 1, one of the world’s largest ZCash mines—ZPool officially opened up its ZCash mining pool, and started recruiting miners from all over the world free of service charges. KIENG KESSARA, the founder of ZPool, noted that, ZPool was formerly known as Megabigpower Bitcoin mine, which was built in September 2017 in Idaho, the United States.
2019-1-1 13:30 | |
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Privacy coin Zcash is becoming more mainstream every day, as crypto investors increasingly look to shield their payments. If you don’t believe us, check out this waterfront property for sale on the Greek island of Lemnos, with a listing price of 180,000€ payable in euro or cryptocurrencies, including ZEC.
2019-1-1 01:00 | |
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As private enterprises gather around the tracking possibilities of pseudo-anonymous Bitcoin, the crypto community is becoming all too aware of the necessity of privacy applications. Such a need has generated bushels of altcoins each hoping to outdo the last.
2018-12-29 00:00 | |
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It seems as if the Federal Reserve really understands the core values of Bitcoin and that launching a national cryptocurrency is pointless. Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde spoke out about the benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) this November.
2018-12-29 23:00 | |
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Latest Bitcoin News Even if there are regulatory questions about the legitimacy of digital assets and other blockchain derivatives as cryptocurrencies, these solutions are finding use cases. Bitcoin is especially an innovation borne out of necessity, and ten years later, the asset has been disrupting thanks to its inherent properties as privacy, speed, and general.
2018-12-27 17:00 | |
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Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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Lucy Wang believes that blockchain technology holds the key to the actualization of robust data security for the digital landscape. The Lambda co-founder made the call recently while talking about the recent Marriott Hotel data breach.
2018-12-17 16:53 | |
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Privacy concerns have become major topics in the cryptocurrency community in recent times. These concerns have led to an increase in the popularity, usage, as well as the value of the leading privacy-centric digital currencies.
2018-12-16 15:00 | |
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Once again, we begin to look back at 2018 and try to determine what trends will help shape another year. Inevitably 2019 will consist of both challenges and opportunities in equal measure. But, what have we learned over the last 12 months and how are we progressing forward as a global community? There is an increasing awareness that we need to protect the security and privacy of almost every aspect of our lives.
2018-12-11 17:01 | |
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A lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and market observers reference websites that measure the digital asset economy by market capitalization. Now there’s a new data website, Coinmarketbook. cc, that calculates a cryptocurrency’s buy support based on order books held on various exchanges.
2018-12-6 01:15 | |
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CryptoNinjas Using a new technology protocol anonymously published in 2016 called ‘Mimblewimble,’ a group of projects is proposing to improve one of the biggest issues with cryptocurrencies: privacy – regarded as one of the hottest.
2018-12-5 16:23 | |
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Startup Atomicpay. io announced the beta launch of its cryptocurrency payment gateway on Dec. 3, with support for six different digital assets. The payment processor eliminates third parties and allows merchants to accept cryptocurrencies in a noncustodial fashion.
2018-12-4 19:40 | |
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The U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published its 2019 fiscal year pre-solicitation document. Throughout the 27-page letter, the organization explains that it wants to dedicate resources toward creating blockchain forensic applications that can analyze privacy-centric digital asset movements.
2018-12-4 05:50 | |
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Pre-Solicitation Document Suggests That Homeland Security Wants To Track Privacy Coin Transactions The United States and cryptocurrency have had a complicated relationship lately, and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission has created definition of each of the different types of digital asset coins.
2018-12-4 23:24 | |
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Digital asset exchange Kucoin has partnered with an Israeli startup to introduce credit card payments for cryptocurrency purchases and we’ve covered it in The Daily. Also, Coinbase has added privacy coin zcash to its professional trading platform, while Okex has delisted dozens of trading pairs with low liquidity.
2018-11-30 14:55 | |
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Shopping online is meant to be ease . . Online shopping 'unease' with foreign currencies? Anxious about the privacy of your Credit/Debit card information? 'GBPT' is an online store that will offer electronic products from the top 10 Electronics brands and some more with most used products, not only this but also will offer the Best Bitcoin Mining Hardware (Bitmain).
2018-11-27 16:02 | |
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Technology has changed the meaning of how we interpret security and privacy in this digital millennium. We’ve made tools that can prevent major vulnerabilities, with years of research, and debugging, to finally prevent disruptions in our workflow from occurring.
2018-11-24 21:30 | |
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When people give reasons for various altcoins’ inability to overtake bitcoin as the dominant digital asset in the world, the conversation sometimes doesn’t move far past the network effects surrounding the world’s most dominant crypto asset.
2018-11-21 17:00 | |
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The US dollar's global reserve status is becoming precarious as competing superpowers China, Russia and Europe seek alternatives to the SWIFT system and trade settlement. China has harnessed blockchain and is close to a digital national currency that will integrate with national surveillance - could this be the largest market for privacy coins?
2018-11-15 15:00 | |
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With contributing reporting from Jimmy Aki. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), suggested a new course of action for central banks around the world: turn their fiat currencies digital.
2018-11-15 22:38 | |
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Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said central banks throughout the world should consider issuing digital currency to make transactions more secure.
2018-11-14 19:10 | |
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Think for a second: compared to your grandparents and parents, what do you actually own outright? Why own when you can rent, license, or subscribe? This seems to be the new mantra, where nothing is permanent — but everything is convenient.
2018-11-10 13:30 | |
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The privacy oriented cryptocurrency platform Zcash [digital asset] is one of the only green-gaining noticeable coins in the cryptocurrency market. Reaching the trading level of $137. 87 against the US Dollar, ZEC counts 5.
2018-11-9 04:26 | |
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On October 29, 2018, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) announced in Prague at DevCon 4 two new software specifications that will help businesses standardize future code developments on an enterprise version of the Ethereum blockchain.
2018-10-31 22:19 | |
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Today’s ceaseless data scandals have everyone talking about privacy, especially insofar as our favorite digital devices and platforms are concerned. Few companies have been at the center of the media maelstrom focused on privacy than Apple, the world’s most valuable and most-tech savvy corporation.
2018-10-27 01:18 | |
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One of the biggest threats to digital security is data leaks. At a time when business models of companies are built around the collection and analysis of data. Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke about the privacy concerns of users and GDPR extensively during his time at the ICDPPC 2018 event.
2018-10-26 12:59 | |
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Since the evolution of financial technology from fiat currency to a more transparent, flexible and lightning-fast cryptocurrency, tons of digital tokens have imploded the cryptocurrency space. From the leading and major virtual coins like Bitcoin (BTC) to Ethereum (ETH) to Litecoin (LTC) and even Stellar (XLM) which are non-privacy coins to privacy coins like Monero […] The post The Number Of Cryptocurrencies Keeps Rising With The Crypto Market Recording Over 2,000 Coins At The Moment appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-10-26 23:04 | |
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An opportunity has risen far east that challenges the established Western Bitcoin order.
A pragmatic look at the issue of Ordinals and tokens on Bitcoin, and how to address their presence as a consumer of blockspace.
The principle of an open internet underpinned the growth of the early Web and is just as necessary now. If only the SEC could back innovation in a similar way, says Sarah Aberg, General Counsel at Nova Labs, the company behind Helium Mobile.
Some outlines of rough consensus are shaping up
In the land of the blind, the DOJ is king
Today, offshore firms dominate the list of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. Expect the center of gravity to come onshore going forward, says Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.
The Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin bill subordinates state regulation to federal control, giving Washington too much power as to which entities can issue these important digital assets, say Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp at the Cato Institute.