Privacy


Finance

Crypto Means Absolutely Nothing Without Censorship Resistance

The battle for how to regulate cryptocurrency might handicap the entire value proposition if we simply apply the same old rules to a new way of moving money around.

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Opinion

Hardliners Stymie Online Identity Innovation

Lack of middle ground between blind crypto idealists and blinkered monetary regulators hampers self-sovereign, privacy-enhanced identity solutions.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Hodling Shielded Assets Is the Best Way to Maintain Privacy

The best way to gain privacy in crypto is to hold funds in a shielded asset. The longer you hold your funds, the stronger your anonymity set becomes.

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Finance

Meta Platforms Follows Blockchain Firms in Joining Cryptographic Privacy Group MPC Alliance

The Facebook parent joins the likes of Bolt Labs, Ciphermode Labs and Partisia Blockchain in becoming a member of the group.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has joined an industry privacy group that includes many blockchain companies. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Opinion

Against CBDCs and the Politicization of Money

No one should understate the threat CBDCs pose to individual sovereignty, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Paul H. Jossey writes.

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Opinion

Ugly Bargains Between Banks and Regulators Are Rearing Their Head Again

The "know your customer" and anti-money laundering system imposes constraints on financial access and inhibits liberty and privacy, even though the original security intent was reasonable.

A scene from "Billions" (Jeff Neumann/Showtime)

Opinion

Why Celsius Doxxed Hundreds of Thousands of Users

It was a court order, which the crypto lender seemed to have pushed back on.

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