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# Privacy (Page 18)

Coin Mixers: How Do They Work and Should You Use Them?

Coin mixers are a service used by cryptocurrency owners in order to enhance the privacy and anonymity of the digital currency transactions. This is a service that is offered by third parties and is also referred to as coin tumbling. The practice of using Coin mixers became prevalent as people...

, by Alex Lielacher

The Holy Grail of Digital Identity Is Not Entirely Sovereign

Self-sovereign identity would let people own the digital information that identifies them and choose when to share it. The ID information will still need to be established or underwritten by centralised institutions.In April, an American tech company IBM joined a little-known not-for-profit...

, by Simon Chandler

Bitfinex is Under Fire Due to Tax Information Request

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has recently distributed a letter to select users asking them to disclose their tax information. Following a Twitter exchange, in which they said they had “deliberately targeted users that we believe have an obligation to self-disclose,” they noted that...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Russia Fails to Ban Telegram, Censor Insists It Is Not Targeting Users

The Russian internet censorship body’s conflict with chat app Telegram, the crypto-community’s de facto communications platform, is intensifying, with critics saying the body’s actions are “breaking Russia’s internet.” But the censor’s head says it has no...

Russia Blocks Telegram for Refusing to Hand Over Data

A Moscow court ordered telecommunications companies to block the Telegram chat app, popular among the crypto community, in Russia due to their refusal to give authorities access to their users’ encrypted messages and private data, Bloomberg reported.Now, only weeks after they raised USD 1.7...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Major Think Tank Tries to Save Blockchain Industry From GDPR

Blockchain technology may be fundamentally incompatible with Europe’s new privacy rules, in its recent blog post claims Coin Center, a Washington DC based think tank backed by major blockchain industry players. Commenting on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to take place...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Privacy Coins Are Necessary If Crypto Is to Go Mainstream

Despite identifying wallets via alphanumeric (consisting of or using both letters and numerals) codes rather than real names, bitcoin isn’t anonymous. Because the blockchain keeps an immutable record of every single fraction of bitcoin moved in and out of these wallets, it's surprisingly easy...

, by Simon Chandler

Monero Not as Private as Previously Thought

Monero's privacy algorithm has a potential vulnerability that makes it possible for researchers to be able to trace around 80% of Monero transactions, a recent paper states. This is a significant hit on the deep web’s favored privacy coin that claims to offer untraceable transactions that are...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Facebook’s Problems Could Help Blockchain Growth

After The New York Times and the Guardian's Observer reported Saturday that political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users, many other privacy issues with Facebook came out.Mitch Steves, analyst at RBC Capital...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Russians Helped Venezuela Launch Petro, Report Says

Russian government officials and businessmen were supporting Venezuela in their effort to create their own, state-backed cryptocurrency, Time Magazine reported Tuesday.Citing sources familiar with the matter, they write that the petro was in fact a collaboration between Venezuelan and Russian...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin May Have Bigger Problem Than Scalability

Miner Centralization Issue Bitcoin Needs Privacy Before Going Mainstream Privacy and Scalability are RelatedOver the past couple of years, scalability (or lack thereof) has been by far the biggest topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community. There have been disagreements over how the system...

, by Kyle Torpey

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