Privacy


Markten

Shiba Inu Adopts Tech to Bring More Privacy to SHIB Token Holders

Shiba Inu ecosystem token TREAT will power a "new privacy layer" for the Shibarium blockchain.

Shiba inu dog

Beleid

India CBDC Insider Reveals Current Stance of Country's Central Bank

India’s central bank is weighing CBDC privacy technology and crypto tax is not part of its domain, a senior official told CoinDesk.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Beleid

UK's Digital Pound Approach Should Help Manage Privacy Concerns, Experts Say

The Bank of England's recent consultation saw 50,000 responses, many welcoming the digital pound's design but sharing concerns about privacy.

Bank of England (Camomile Shumba)

Technologie

Zcash Developer Electric Coin CEO Zooko Wilcox Steps Down, Swihart Named to Role

The overseeing board of Zcash, known for its privacy-oriented "shielded" addresses or "z-addresses," credited Wilcox with delivery of "the first real-world application of zero-knowledge proofs."

Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Opinie

Warren’s Crypto Bill Is Likely Unconstitutional. It’s Also Unlikely to Pass

Democratic lawmakers signed on to sponsor the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act. The bill is bad for crypto in the U.S., even if it never gets through Congress.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Beleid

China to Verify Citizens' Identities With New Blockchain-Based Platform

The announcement follows a government rule change to require social media influencers to display their real names.

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Beleid

IRS 'Raided' by Crypto Investors as Industry Puts Up Fight Against U.S. Tax Proposal

The proposal to establish a U.S. tax regime for digital assets has drawn a stunning 120,000 comments and will be the focus of an IRS hearing today.

The U.S. is weighing crypto tax rules, and a hearing today will hear from industry representatives worried about the government going too far. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk.)

Technologie

Privacy Technology Firm Nym Plans Early 2024 Rollout of 'Decentralized VPN'

The privacy-focused infrastructure project says that the new NymVPN will disperse traffic across a network of nodes rather than running data through single servers as centralized VPNs do.

Nym co-founder and CEO Harry Halpin (Nym)

Technologie

Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Lead $6M Funding Round For Privacy Protocol Firm Nocturne Labs

Other investors included Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures and HackVC.

Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Financiën

Nym Technologies Attracts $300M in Crypto Fund Commitments for Privacy Infrastructure

The Nym Innovation Fund, with commitments from investors such as Polychain, KR1, Huobi Incubator and Eden Block, supports projects looking to safeguard privacy in the crypto ecosystem.

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