Privacy
Davos Needs to Wake Up to the Ills of Centralization
The lens of decentralization reveals a number of elephants in the room that world leaders at the WEF are missing.
Hardware Is Hard: Two Blockchain Devices Win Plaudits at CES 2020
A blockchain-secured smartphone and home security camera won Innovation Awards at the annual trade show in Las Vegas. But don’t call the startups behind them hardware companies.
EY Open-Sources Tech It Says Slashes Cost of Private Ethereum Transactions
Lowering the costs of private transactions in this way makes the public ethereum blockchain more competitive with private chains, EY says.
Snowball: The Effort to Bring Privacy to Every Bitcoin Wallet
A new Bluetooth-based tech could snowball into a way to create truly private transactions, its creator says.
'Anonymity Vouchers' Could Bring Limited Privacy to CBDCs: ECB Report
Europe's central bankers have developed an "anonymity voucher" to give prospective CBDC users limited privacy in their retail transactions.
Is Greece Cracking Down on Tax Evasion or Taxing Anonymity?
Credit cards and bank transfers – and their incumbent surveillance features – are no longer payment options for Greek citizens, they are obligations.
DISCUSSION: How Can Public Blockchains Have Privacy?
On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now.
Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments
Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds.
Zcash Foundation Funds App Mixing Private Messaging and Payments
Meet Cwtch, a zcash-fueled messaging app with more decentralization than Telegram or Signal.
What's Really Private in Crypto? Research on Grin Raises Questions
Following a report last week on the anonymity features of grin, one big question emerged: What is privacy in crypto, anyways?
