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Financial Stability Board: Blockchain Could Raise Cross-Border Data Issues

The Financial Stability Board has published a new report on fintech raising questions about data privacy and smart contracts.

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Bitcoin Developers Publish BIP For 'Dandelion' Privacy Project

Researchers looking to beef up bitcoin’s privacy features have released a new proposal on GitHub.

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Consensus 2017 Recap: Panels Cast Wide Net for Blockchain Discussions

A look back at some of the fascinating and diverse panels that took place at Consensus 2017 this week.

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Consensus 2017: Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Puts Blockchain Privacy Into Focus

Privacy and confidentiality are big-ticket priorities for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, ethereum-focused consortium launched in February.

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Litecoin is Giving New Life to Bitcoin's Most Experimental Tech

An upgrade to the litecoin codebase is inspiring new strategies from blockchain developers seeking eventually to build on bitcoin.

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A Decentralized Mixer For Ethereum? Zcoin Is Working on It

A new project is seeking to combine ethereum's smart contract capabilities with the privacy afforded to the zcash blockchain.

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MimbleWimble: Silly Sounding Tech Could Seriously Reform Bitcoin

BlockCypher's CEO speaks out about the dysfunction in bitcoin's community and why she believes new tech could help save it.

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You Can Link Monero Transactions – But Which? And What's the Impact?

A new paper provides a technique to link transactions from the privacy-centric cryptocurrency. Should users be worried?

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'Confidential Assets': Blockstream Reveals New Bitcoin Privacy Tech

Bitcoin startup Blockstream has unveiled new technology for shielding the details of transactions on a blockchain.

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3 Big Blockchain Ideas MIT is Working on Right Now

CoinDesk looks at notable MIT Digital Currency Initiative projects, from reshaping the web, to making blockchains more confidential and auditable.

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