Analysis
Zcash’s rise mirrors a shifting mood toward privacy in an increasingly monitored online world.
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Privacy News
Privacy, as defined by privacy laws, encompasses the fundamental right to keep one’s personal information and activities confidential and secure. In the digital age, privacy laws are designed to protect individuals from unauthorized access, data breaches, and the misuse of their personal data by governments, organizations or individuals.
Contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies are not entirely private. In fact, they operate on public blockchains, where transaction details, such as sender and receiver addresses and amounts, are publicly accessible. This transparency ensures the integrity of the transaction history and prevents double-spending, a critical aspect of cryptocurrency technology. Financial regulations often require transparency to ensure compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer laws.
In the digital realm, privacy coins address the need for financial privacy. They empower users to conduct transactions without exposing their financial history to the public, offering a level of confidentiality akin to traditional cash transactions. This privacy is crucial for individuals living in regions with oppressive regimes, protecting them from potential persecution.
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Zcash defied the crypto market downturn with a 45% rally this week, making it the most valuable privacy-focused cryptocurrency, following Hayes’ call for a $10,000 price target.
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EU's ProtectEU mandates on-device scanning before encryption, creating a two-tier security system where states encrypt while citizens are surveilled. Digital feudalism codified.
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Nigeria, the Bahamas and Jamaica are only three jurisdictions that have launched CBDCs, according to the American think tank, the Atlantic Council.
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The new project, dubbed Cocoon, aims to give users access to AI tools without surrendering their data to centralized providers.
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By tokenizing phone numbers as real-world assets (RWAs), this project introduces a KYC-free model for communication and data protection.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong credited the company’s acquisition of Iron Fish in March for driving the effort.
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BTE offers epochless, constant-size decryption shares (as small as 48 bytes) that can help layer-2 rollups to achieve pending transaction privacy.
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Current laws in the United States do not explicitly protect open source software developers and create the risk of retroactive prosecution.
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Sixteen years after Bitcoin’s debut, regulators continue to face hurdles in accessing reliable crypto data, with privacy laws complicating efforts.
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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.
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Zcash and Dash prices could make an XRP-style comeback as the privacy coin narrative is helping these older “dinosaur” coins break multi-year downtrends.
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What’s the real tension in blockchain, total transparency or total privacy, and how do we unlock both?
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Researchers were able to read text messages and even traffic for military systems and infrastructure with just a few hundred dollars’ worth of equipment.
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The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network’s immutability and decentralization.
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