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Bitcoin Mixer - Shuffling Your Bitcoin For Anonymity and Privacy
Bitcoin Mixer offers a solution to the many risks posed by transacting Bitcoins online through a process known as Bitcoin shuffling.
CFTC Commissioner Calls for Reduced Cryptocurrency Anonymity
CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero has proposed reducing the anonymity of cryptocurrencies as a means of managing associated risks. Romero spoke at City Week 2023 in London, stating that market integrity, national security, and financial stability cannot be compromised.
Bitcoin Anonymity
More than ten years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin. The aim was to come up with a financial system that included no third-party intermediaries and that’s owned by everyone and no one. Another reason behind Bitcoin’s creation, however, was anonymously transferring funds.
US Election 2020: Can I Change My Vote?
The United States 2020 election day approaches, and a large number of US citizens have already cast their votes, but what if they wanted to change their votes before Nov. 3?
Russia Plans to Build AI Software to Remove the Anonymity of Users in Crypto Transactions
The Russian agency’s plan involves using artificial intelligence (AI) for its software, as the agency sees an “urgent need to create effective opportunities for state control over the circulation of virtual assets.”
The Rise of the Anon: Protecting Innovation
Anonymity is increasingly offering protection to innovators as well as their ideas.
Crypto for Sex: Blockchain Takes Off in the Adult Entertainment Industry
Cryptocurrencies have become increasingly popular in the adult entertainment industry, as it can guarantee a high level of anonymity to its users, especially for pornography-related businesses.
ECB Report: Striking the Balance Between Allowing Privacy and Ensuring Compliance with CBDC
The European Central Bank has recently developed an “anonymity voucher” to safeguard potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) users’ privacy for low-value retail transactions, while ensuring that high-value transfers are subject to anti-money laundering (AML) approvals.
Recap on 2019: What Does the World Think of Central Bank Digital Currencies?
The European Central Bank has recently developed an “anonymity voucher” to safeguard potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) users’ privacy for low-value retail transactions, while ensuring that high-value transfers are subject to anti-money laundering (AML) approvals.
PornVisory Plans Token Rewards for Porn Streaming
PornVisory is an Italian based adult content streaming site modeling the Brave Browser's system by rewarding users with its own token (PVY) to reward users who view content and ads on the site while also promoting anonymity.
Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold: Crypto Exchange Coinbase
On May 1, 2020, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase published an article on its blog claiming that Bitcoin is superior to gold. The crypt exchange had earlier published a similar article where they supported Bitcoin over Gold due to its ease to audit, anonymity, low transaction fee, and ease to be fragmented into smaller fractions.
Chainalysis Adds Compliance Support to Track Privacy Coins Dash and Zcash
Chainalysis has just launched support for two of the most popular privacy coins, Dash and Zcash. Privacy coins are cryptocurrencies with privacy-enhancing features that allow users to gain total anonymity when making blockchain transactions. Privacy coins protect the identity of the users and the origins of the transactions, taking the anonymous and private nature of Bitcoin to the next level. Comparatively, Bitcoin protects some information, hence remaining pseudo-anonymous. The rest of the information, including transactions, addresses, and balances, is recorded in a public and permanently available ledger.
LocalBitcoins warns Tor Browser Users of Potential Bitcoin Theft
LocalBitcoins, a Finnish crypto exchange, recently warned its users about the potential cybersecurity risks connected to the anonymous browser—Tor Browser.
BitBay Exchange Plans to End Market Trading of Monero on its Platform
As reported by BitBay on November 25, the cryptocurrency exchange platform will stop offering market support for the privacy-focused coin Monero, starting from November 29.
Debunked: The 7 Most Common Myths About Cryptocurrencies
Although cryptocurrencies have been around for quite some time, many people still find them confusing. In part, that is definitely due to the fact that there are many common myths about them that people take to be true.