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Política

Notes From the WEF: The Coming Battle Between Surveilled and Private Money

Most Davos experts appear to agree that blockchain technology is best for data collection rather than self-sovereign finance.

Blockchain thinker Glen Weyl (center, gray blazer) speaks with other attendees of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. (Photo by Leigh Cuen for CoinDesk)

Política

Why the World Economic Forum Is Creating a Blockchain 'Bill of Rights'

Sheila Warren, the head of blockchain for the WEF, argues the technology needs a set of principles for staving off potential misuse.

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Política

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.

Davos 2019 image via Aaron Stanley for CoinDesk

Tecnologia

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.

CES visitors check out IoTeX's camera and Pundi X's phone in the Innovation Awards section. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)

Tecnologia

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.

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Tecnologia

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.

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Política

'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.

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Política

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.

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Mercados

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.

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Tecnologia

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.

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