Jack Dorsey and Peter Todd are among the Bitcoiners voicing support for privacy messaging app Signal to adopt Bitcoin amid a “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign.
Encryption News

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- NewsWhat’s the real tension in blockchain, total transparency or total privacy, and how do we unlock both? 8264
- NewsResearchers were able to read text messages and even traffic for military systems and infrastructure with just a few hundred dollars’ worth of equipment. 10218
- NewsThe Irish Communications Interception and Lawful Access Bill is still in development, with drafting yet to occur, but the Global Encryption Coalition wants it scrapped now. 3631
- OpinionFully Homomorphic Encryption could unlock trillions in traditional finance for DeFi by enabling private lending, encrypted credit scores and confidential transactions. 4304
- NewsThe UK has again ordered Apple to open access to encrypted iCloud backups for British users, a move that could expose crypto wallet keys to hacking. 7649
- ResearchExplore how Shutter uses threshold encryption to fight MEV, its strengths and trade-offs. 20446
- NewsWith 19 EU member states backing it, the Chat Control proposal could mandate pre-encryption message scanning on apps like WhatsApp and Signal by October. 40756
- NewsNaoris has launched a $120,000 bounty incentivising researchers to break key cryptographic algorithms underpinning Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. 12816
- NewsSui Research’s new quantum-safe wallet upgrade method offers a hard fork-free solution for EdDSA-based blockchains, but does not apply to Bitcoin or Ethereum. 12212
- NewsAs of Wednesday, at least 11 IP addresses have actively tried to exploit the vulnerability, with thousands more addresses possibly doing reconnaissance work. 6866
- NewsTelegram would rather exit markets like France than allow encryption backdoors to private user messages, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said. 9243
- NewsMessaging apps gather users’ data and violate their privacy. Session co-founder Kee Jeffreys says encryption and decentralization are the solution. 5910
- NewsNym says its virtual private network can be used fully anonymously and will help protect journalists and activists from government, corporate and AI surveillance. 7979
- OpinionAs Web3 grows, its metadata problem intensifies, risking a global data security crisis. Can anonymity networks and new technologies protect users from AI-powered surveillance? 4657