AntPool, operated by mining giant Bitmain, said that it will not maintain clients’ assets on Ethereum after the blockchain moves to proof-of-stake next month in The Merge. The Merge will transition Et...
Tag: Censorship
Vitalik Buterin Faces Backlash After Talking About Censorship Resistance
Arman Shirinyan Co-founder of Ethereum chose one of worst times to talk about censorship resistance In his most recent twitter post, Vitalik Buterin described how people all over the world underrate c...
POS Ethereum Will Be Censorship and OFAC Resistant Argues Eric Wall
In the wake of sanctions from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) against Tornado Cash, crypto analyst Eric Wall has trashed the possibility of an OFAC-compliant Ethereum chain, calling the no...
As Censorship on Ethereum Begins, Could This Open-Sourced Code Help Counter It?
Micah Zoltu, the founder of Serv.eth Support, a support service specializing in Ethereum decentralized applications (dapps), led the topic of censorship on the call. In a conversation with CoinDesk, h...
Ethereum community splits over solutions for transaction censorship
The Ethereum community has been divided over how to best respond to the threat of protocol-level transaction censorship in the wake of the United States government sanctions on Tornado Cash-linked add...
Ethereum’s Pivot to Proof-of-Stake Consensus Worries Users About the Possibility of Protocol Level Censorship – News Bitcoin News
The upcoming consensus change that Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is planning to execute in September has worried many users about the possibility of censorship happening a...
Can Ethereum Fight Back Against the US’ Sweeping Censorship Attempt?
Coinbase is, very critically, a U.S.-based company and OFAC is, very critically, a department of the U.S. Treasury. So in a world where ETH users are trying to do a UASF to combat censorship, what hap...
Will Ethereum Be Vulnerable to Censorship After the Merge?
Key Takeaways The Ethereum community is debating whether large validators may end up being forced to censor transactions following the Merge. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin believes transaction cens...
Crypto Mixers and Privacy Coins: Can They Resist Censorship?
People across Twitter are protesting sanctions by making resistance art out of the banned addresses This renewed interest has inspired creative solutions that use privacy coins to provide a base-layer...
Coinbase would rather shut down staking than enable on-chain censorship — Brian Armstrong
In light of the recent ban on crypto mixing tool Tornado Cash and the subsequent arrest of the Tornado Cash developer, there has been a growing debate over whether crypto services providers would choo...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says He’d Cancel Ethereum Staking if Regulators Mandate Censorship
The chief executive of Coinbase says that the leading US-based crypto exchange platform won’t tolerate regulatory censorship. Responding to a hypothetical question, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tells ...
Vitalik Buterin’s Take On Possible Ethereum Censorship By OFAC
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, frowns deeply on the possibility of Ethereum censorship by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). He maintained that such an...
Ethereum Largest Mining Pool Says PoW Is More Censorship Resistant, While ETHW Urges Users To Take ETH Off LPs
– Advertisement – f2pool co-founder says it is easier to process anonymous transactions on Proof of Work (PoW). In a tweet on Wednesday, the co-founder of f2pool, in light of recent cens...
Is Ethereum Censorship By The OFAC Possible? Here’s What Vitalik Buterin Think
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin considers enforcing censorship by regulators as an attack on Ethereum. He voted in favor of burning the ETH stakes of staking providers via social consensus if they...
Why Aave Will Submit Address Censorship To A Community Vote
In a report from TheBlock, the team behind the Ethereum (ETH) protocol Aave addressed the concerns about their address screening process. The decision to partner with compliance firm TRM Labs has been...
If You’re Tired of Web2’s Censorship of Crypto, Use Web3
People in crypto often use those examples of “censorship” as justification for the work they’re doing or support. If anyone can get thrown off of an email service, or “shadowbanned” by Twitter, then t...
Arweave Attracts More Chinese Content Creators in Fight Against Censorship
In China, residents turn to NFTs stored on the blockchain using Arweave to record moments of the pandemic and other censorable media. Arweave, a blockchain-based storage solution, is a new type of blo...
China Messaging On Ukraine Shows Support For Russia’s Invasion: U.S. State Department
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, right, and Xi Jinping, China’s president, listen to questions at … [+] the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2019. Photographer: Andrey Rud...
Twitter May Already Be Cashing In On Conservative Users Lured By Musk
Topline Twitter could be gaining millions in quarterly ad revenue from an influx of conservative Twitter users in the days after Elon Musk’s takeover bid, data of followers of major partisan accounts ...
Opinion: We Need Censorship Resistant Money More Than Ever
Key Takeaways Bitcoin is arguably the world’s best example of a censorship resistant money network. Recent world events such as Canada’s response to the Freedom Convoy and Russian sanction...
Russia Demands Wikipedia Take Down Information About Ukraine War
Topline The Russian media regulator threatened Wikipedia with fines Thursday of up to 4 million rubles (about $49,000) if it doesn’t delete information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that diverges...
How Activists Are Using New Tools To Outsmart Russian Censors
A demonstrator, holding a Ukrainian flag, participates in a demonstration called by 70 associations in support of Ukraine on the square of Paris’ townhall on March 17. JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP/Getty I...
Financial Censorship: Crypto Will be an Integral Part of the Fragmented Global Economy
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, people from all over the world have sent more than $54 million to the Ukrainian government and an NGO called Come Back Alive, which is providing support to t...
How Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Are Sidestepping The Russian Censors
The front pages of British newspaper on February 27, 2022, in London, England. Russia’s large-scale … [+] invasion of Ukraine has killed scores of civilians and military personnel. (Photo ...
Bitcoin’s censorship resistance capacity enters the spotlight, Feb. 14–21
Amid the barrage of last week’s regulatory news, from rumors of Joe Biden’s upcoming executive order on digital assets to another round of the Russian government’s crypto tug of war, the storyline tha...
Neil Young Says He’s Against ‘Censorship’ After Spotify Removes Music Over Joe Rogan Dispute
Topline Neil Young wrote Friday that he has “never been in favor of censorship” and “supports free speech,” days after the artist asked Spotify to remove his music from the streaming service following...
CBLDF Blasts School Censorship Of Award-Winning Graphic Novel
This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles, California on January 27, 2022 shows a person holding … [+] the graphic novel “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. – A school board in Tennes...