Tag: privacy

Monero (XMR) completed a hard fork that improved its security and privacy features on August 13. Congratulations on a successful network upgrade!...

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In today's fast-paced online world, you need a VPN to hide your identity from hackers, and the snooping gaze of your internet service provider. Using a VPN is the safe way of browsing the internet; without it, your computer risks attack from online criminals. Avast is well-known for its free antivirus software that does an [...] The post Avast Secureline VPN Review: Complete...

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Ben Carman and Tony Ronning break down how the Lightning Network functions and what to expect in the coming years from Bitcoin and Lightning.Watch This Episode On YouTube Or...

What’s the story around Tornado Cash? The U.S. Department of the Treasury made its case in a press release, but the question still lingers. Because, as many people have pointed out, Tornado Cash is not an institution. It's a smart contract in the Ethereum blockchain and, according to US law, code is supposed to be speech. Are they challenging that? To make things...

Jerry Brito, executive director of Coin Center, talks about Tornado Cash, why it was sanctioned, and what this means for privacy in crypto. Show highlights: what Blender.io is and how it relates to Tornado Cash how hackers have used Tornado Cash to launder money whether the Office of Foreign Assets Control made a mistake, according to Jerry how...

The stakes have never been higher. The state is losing its grasp of control over the people and it is doubling down on utter incompetence and nefariousness.The below is a direct excerpt of Marty's Bent Issue #1248: “The privacy wars have escalated.” Sign up for the newsletter here....

USDC stablecoin issuer Circle released a statement to clarify its stance after freezing all ETH addresses affected by the U.S. Treasury Department's sanction against Tornado...

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned that the administration would continue to "aggressively pursue" crypto mixers suspected of laundering illicit funds. We’ll continue to aggressively pursue actions against currency mixers laundering virtual currency for criminals....

Shapeshift CEO and founder Erik Voorhees recommended the MakerDAO community take precautionary measures after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash. Specifically, Voorhees advised MakerDAO users to remove their USDC collateral and convert the funds into another stablecoin. But he stopped short of advocating a more censorship-resistant choice....

Circle's USDC has "blacklisted" all Ethereum addresses owned by Tornado Cash listed in the US Treasury Department's sanction against the protocol. A...

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin suggests the idea of private NFTs whereby the owner would not be known through blockchain data. The concept was added to an Ethereum Research post focused on adding an "ERC721 Extension for zk-SNARKs." Idea: stealth addresses for...

The reasons that KYC should never be the default are obvious when examined from a lens of security and privacy.This is an opinion editorial by Heady Wook, privacy advocate and contributor to Bitcoin Magazine.IntroductionIn the Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto cited the need for a cash system over the internet without the need for a trusted...

Mixing bitcoin using Whirpool can achieve anonymity. Here are a few tools to help maintain that privacy benefit when spending.Considerations should be made when spending Whirlpool unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) so that the anonymity benefits of mixing your bitcoin are kept intact. There are transaction tools that help you spend your post-mix bitcoin in a way that maintains anonymity, each tool offers...

A senior Chinese central bank official, Mu Changchun, said the country will respect digital yuan users' privacy and protect their personal information, Reuters reported on July 25. According to Changchun, the...

pLN is a new wallet project that aims to make it easy for users to follow the “happy path” of making bitcoin payments privately on Lightning.A version of this article was originally published on BC1984.“Citadel Dispatch” episode 70, "...

A Bitcoin VPN allows two or more parties to discover each other and be able to communicate privately over the public internet without trust.This is an opinion editorial by Moustafa Amin, a technology leader with more than 20 years of professional experience across large organizations, service providers and telephone companies.Bitcoin is undoubtedly the world’s newest form of money....

Polygon's Head of Enterprise, Antoni Martin, gave the keynote speech at the 2022 EY Global Blockchain Summit and introduced Polygon...