Privacy


Tecnologie

‘Digital Mercenaries’: Why Blockchain Analytics Firms Have Privacy Advocates Worried

Blockchain surveillance highlights the tension between further crypto transparency that encourages wider adoption and its cypherpunk roots.

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Tecnologie

Three Trends Killing Web Privacy and Decentralization

The decentralized design of the web gives it the potential to be more privacy-preserving than any other system. Yet, there are long-range threats at play.

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Politiche

DOJ’s Crypto Framework Is ‘a Complete Disaster’ for Digital Privacy Rights

The U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement framework may pose a serious threat to the digital privacy rights of crypto users.

The DOJ's crypto enforcement framework takes aim at privacy coins and anonymity-enhancing services like mixers.

Tecnologie

What the History of Headphones Says About the Internet's Future

What does the historical development of headphones tell us about the future of the internet?

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Finanza

Binance-Backed Privacy Mavens Release Tokenomic Lynchpin: 'Proof-of-Relay'

Rewards gathered on the testnet will be made available when HOPR tokens launch on the live mainnet later this year.

HOPR's founding team: Robert Kiel, Sebastian Bürgel and Rik Krieger.

Tecnologie

Zcoin Employs Burn-and-Redeem Privacy Model, Offering Alternative to Coinjoins

The Lelantus protocol, launched on privacy coin Zcoin’s testnet, lets users redeem partial amounts of a total coin burn rather than all of it at once.

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Mercati

Cryptographers Are Always Going to Be 'One Step Ahead' of Regulators: Monero's Spagni

Privacy protocols have become the focal point of regulators and law enforcement agencies when the race among central banks to launch sovereign digital currencies is heating up.

Riccardo Spagni, aka "Fluffypony"

Mercati

A Day in the Life of the Splinternet

Cypherpunk historian Finn Brunton imagines a future where there are many internets, each making demands on your attention.

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Mercati

In Effort to Differentiate, Litecoin Makes a Move to Privacy

Litecoin (LTC) founder Charlie Lee told CoinDesk in an interview the project is now looking to adopt key privacy-enhancing features, which he sees as increasingly attractive to cryptocurrency users.

Litecoin sees privacy as a selling point.

Tecnologie

The Web Wasn’t Built for Privacy, but It Could Be

Because privacy means different things to different people, a privacy-focused internet is unlikely to please everyone. But it should offer greater personal control.

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