Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance invested in blockchain data monetization startup Numbers.
Privacy News
Despite the widespread belief that Bitcoin is anonymous and private, Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies’ privacy isn’t always good enough by default. Bitcoin’s balances are public, and addresses cannot offer more than pseudonymity. There are some services that can help with masking transactions, but they are not popular and easy enough to gain a large user-base and they also often have fees. Some news about Bitcoin privacy is promising: the implementation of SegWit and the use of the Lightning Network might be first steps in improving privacy. Some developers are focusing on the privacy of cryptocurrencies and developing protocols suitable for private transactions. Today, there are more and more cryptocurrencies that uses different privacy technologies but have their focus on anonymous transactions. Still, popular cryptocurrencies are trying to have the feature of public transactions as they may be used in business banking.
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- Opinion
by Lucas Nuzzi
For over a decade of its existence, Bitcoin has changed dramatically, but its essential features and characteristics are what make it the number one cryptocurre...
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by Helen Partz
Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of cloud-based messenger Telegram, says that Apple’s cloud service iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool.”
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Chinese experts held a seminar titled "Blockchain technology helps China's new social credit system" on Jan. 14.
- Analysis
by Will Heasman
As the FCA looks to shake things up under their new AML regime, how will the U.K. and the global cryptocurrency industry react?
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Tron is set to introduce privacy technology based on zero knowledge proofs to its smart contracts, using copied Zcash code for the trusted setup.
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Zcash released a Software Development Kit for both Android and iOS, which allows developers to easily build mobile wallets supporting shielded transactions.
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BitMEX researchers suggest that the privacy and scalability benefits of Bitcoin’s implementation of the Lightning Network are lower than expected.
- New Year Special
The year 2019 was rich with major privacy developments, but 2020 may rock regulatory landscape even more.
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by Helen Partz
New York lawmakers proposed a bill on a P2P savings and payment platform called the “New York Inclusive Value Ledger.”
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Triptych is a new ring signatures construction that could increase Monero’s anonymity set more than tenfold, though live implementations are still far off.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong believes that a “privacy coin” go mainstream in the 20s.
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by Helen Partz
Zcoin launched a new platform designed to serve as a shift from direct funding from the block reward to a donation model.
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Crypto exchange Poloniex announced a new account tier allowing for up to $10,000 in daily withdrawals that only requires an email address and password.
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A team of researchers claims that the prototype silicon chip that they developed enables encryption that is impossible to break.
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