MetaMask, a popular web3 wallet application, has unveiled a new version, Mobile V6, enabling users to control operations and guarantee privacy. The new version brings a bottom bar comprising two tabs ...
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SEC to vote on cybersecurity, consumer privacy rule proposals
The Securities and Exchange Commission will vote on new rules and changes to bolster requirements for cybersecurity, privacy and tech infrastructure that officials said could encompass cryptocurrencie...
CBDCs should protect privacy, not be a surveillance tool: Former CFTC chair
The United States should lead the development of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) away from being “surveillance coins” and towards being “freedom coins,” says the former chair of the Comm...
Privacy blockchain platform Aztec to shut down Aztec Connect
Privacy blockchain platform Aztec has announced that it will be shutting down Aztec Connect, the network’s privacy infrastructure that acts as the encryption layer for Ethereum. The network was ...
Privacy Centric Brave Browser Now Allows Crypto Asset Selling Inside of Wallet Extension
Privacy-focused browser Brave just added a new feature that gives users the ability to sell crypto assets within its native Web3 wallet. The software firm says Ramp Network’s off-ramp solution is now ...
U.S. Congressman cautions about privacy concerns regarding CBDCs
U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer believes that the introduction of CBDCs will jeopardize the financial privacy of American citizens. Emmer introduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance Act last month. United States...
YouTube Channel, Altcoin Daily Raises Privacy Concern Over CBDCs
Altcoin Daily brings the underlying privacy threat integrated into CBDCs into light. Central banks would have every detail about all the transactions carried out using CBDCs. An expert explained that ...
Advocacy Group is Campaigning to Encourage U.S. Congress to Prioritize User Privacy
The initiative was taken to encourage new members of Congress to protect privacy rights. While championing end-to-end encryption and safeguarding personal data. On Tuesday, January 10th, Fight for the...
EU Privacy Regulator Flags Concern About ‘Breakdown Of Communication’ With Twitter
Topline Twitter’s rollout of its paid verification service in Europe has been carried out without consulting the Irish Data Protection Commission, the social platform’s primary regulator in the Europe...
The Wild West Of Data Privacy
In 2021, online payment fraud grew 14%, from $17.5bn to over $20bn. At the same time, 46% of organisations surveyed by PwC reported experiencing fraud, corruption, or economic crimes in the last 24 mo...
Is Privacy Pools the Upgraded Version of Tornado Cash?
The early contributor of Tornado Cash built a new crypto mixer called Privacy Pools that addresses the regulators’ concerns. Ameen Soleimani, one of the early contributors to Tornado Cash, claims to h...
Btcpay Introduces New Coinjoin Plugin for Enhanced Bitcoin Privacy for Merchants – Privacy Bitcoin News
On Monday, Wasabi Wallet and the open-source bitcoin payment processor Btcpay announced a new plugin for the Btcpay server. The plugin implements Wasabi’s Wabisabi coinjoin coordination protocol, allo...
SpankChain founder teases Tornado Cash ‘sequel’
Ameen Soleimani, the co-founder of SpankChain and Reflex Labs, has teased a revival of sorts for the controversial Ethereum transaction mixer, Tornado Cash. Soleimani’s tweet indicated the...
Anti-Surveillance CBDC Bill Won’t Protect Privacy: Advocacy Group
Digital rights group Fight for the Future isn’t convinced by a new CBDC anti-surveillance bill pitched to the US House Financial Services Committee. US Congressman Tom Emmer introduced the “CBDC Anti-...
DWF Labs Invests $25M in Privacy Tech Startup Beldex
“We are excited about Beldex’s ecosystem, which offers scalable and secure decentralized applications prioritizing privacy,” DWF Labs managing partner Andrei Grachev said in the announcement post. “Th...
US Lawmaker Launches CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Financial Privacy – Regulation Bitcoin News
U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer has introduced the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Anti-Surveillance State Act “to halt efforts of unelected bureaucrats” from “stripping Americans of their right to fi...
CBDC Deployment Could Erode Financial Privacy In The US
Pro-crypto Republican Senator Tom Emmer has raised concerns about a potential American central bank digital currency (CBDC). On Feb. 22, the Minnesota Congressman introduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance...
Does Your Privacy Matter? Yeah, Probably…
For a lot of people in the crypto space, the term crypto means money. Of course, it didn’t start off that way. Bitcoin created the most expensive pizza sale ever, mostly because it was the first ever ...
Like Mining and Validation, Proving Needs To Be Decentralized
Web3 adoption is hindered by a lack of privacy. We don’t always want our online activity to be public, whether when we interact with a social media app or buy a meal, to say nothing of our sensitive f...
Bank of England developing a CBDC that will respect privacy?
The Bank of England has published a technology working paper wherein it lays out its ideas on a future digital pound. User privacy is being considered. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are the ...
‘Privacy has become a taboo,’ says crypto-anarchist project DarkFi
The first critique of centralized authority was introduced by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1848, a few years after publishing his now-classic book What is Property?, calling for the abolition of property...
Sinbad crypto mixing service may be Blender in disguise: Elliptic
A shuttered crypto transaction mixer once sanctioned by U.S. regulators may have returned under a new name, according to an analysis by crypto firm Elliptic. Elliptic said that on-chain data sho...
Has Crypto Stepped Back From The Cypherpunk Vision of Privacy?
In many ways, cryptocurrency is the embodiment of the Cypherpunk vision. However, its focus on privacy has been lost in recent years. A group of cryptography experts and libertarians called the Cypher...
The Man Behind the New Favorite Crypto Privacy Service for North Korean Hackers
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage There is frequently a thin line between financial privacy and money laundering in the cryptoeconomic system. Currently, a Bitcoin...
New crypto rules in Dubai prohibit privacy coins like Dash and Monero
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The most populous of the seven emirates of the UAE, Dubai, recently brought a set of rules for crypto that was initially praised ...
Crypto projects respond to privacy coin ban in Dubai
The Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) recently provided the much-awaited guidelines for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which included a ban on privacy ...
Binance Upgrades Proof of Reserves Privacy With Zk-SNARKs
Binance announced that it would introduce zero-knowledge proofs to improve the quality of its Proof of Reserves report. Zk-SNARKs will allow Binance users to securely and privately confirm nonnegative...