Tag: privacy

Firo has activated a new privacy upgrade called Lelantus as of Jan. 14, 2021. The newly upgraded protocol enhances transaction privacy by removing Firo's previous limitations. Firo Boosts Privacy With Lelantus Firo was initially launched as...

A new integration is set to allow token holders to transact with Litecoin anonymously. Despite the significance of the news, LTC looks bound for a steep decline before any continued uptrend. Litecoin to Enjoy Privacy Features While crypto enthusiasts await the final code for Litecoin's MimbleWimble...

As of today, zcash, monero and dash won’t be included among Bittrex’s tradable assets.

With concerns over centralized power in big tech, fintech users are entering the year on a precarious note.

Lelantus introduces “on-by-default” privacy while also allowing partial redemptions of Firo’s burn-and-redeem model.

Monero outperformed all other privacy-centric altcoins in 2020 with a 249% price increase despite tightened regulation. Following its excellent performance in 2020, XMR looks primed for further gains....

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thinks that blockchain could be the next big thing in censorship-free communications. The events in the American Capitol have resulted in a mass exodus of Facebook and Twitter users as a result of their decision to ban President trump and several “fringe” groups. Most Twitter exiles looked at Parler as the [...] The post Can Ethereum & Blockchain Technology...

DarkMarket, a deep-web-based illegal marketplace offering ban substances and drugs to users was seized by German...

Early this year, privacy-focused coins were seemingly dealt a death blow by Bittrex, a popular crypto-asset exchange. In an announcement, the exchange said that it would be delisting the trading pairs that pertain to three...

BTSE exchange has launched a Monero-backed token on Ethereum called Wrapped Monero (WXMR). The innovation arrives amidst a wave of delistings for various privacy-centric tokens....

Bittrex announced on Dec. 29 that its exchange will be removing the U.S. markets for the three of the biggest privacy coins by market cap on January 15, 2021. In the post, Bittrex stated it is giving users up to 30 days to withdraw their coins: "After the markets are...

For the holidays, I'm doing two AMAs. In the second of two, I cover: privacy blockchains my thoughts on the STABLE Act whether or not...

Statechains offer another way to scale bitcoin payments. New exploration has uncovered that statechains could boost Bitcoin privacy as well.

Ethereum currently processes around 1 million transactions daily. Due to the blockchain's open nature, however, every address associated with a transaction on the network gets recorded on a public ledger. That can present issues for users who want to...

The incident shows the variety of ways data can be used to hurt people, and raises questions about how and if certain data should be retained at all.

Ledger, the popular hardware wallet, said today that data belonging to over 1 million customers was leaked on a hacker forum. Ledger users endure data leak Hardware wallet Ledger said today that details of a database compromised in June were dumped on RaidForums, an infamous online hacking forum, over the weekend....

The privacy technology, called fully homomorphic encryption, keeps data hidden even when being processed.

Sunday’s dump of customer emails and addresses serves as a sobering reminder that even a maker of hardware crypto wallets can become a data honeypot.

End-to-end encryption was never more important than this year. In 2021, battles over the future of online privacy – and therefore the nature of the internet itself – will come to head.

Tornado.cash has suggested the launch of a native token in a new governance proposal. The plan involves airdropping tokens to Tornado.cash users to hand over control of the protocol. Tornado.cash Outlines TORN Token Tornado.cash, the most used privacy solution on...