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What a CEO’s Arrest Tells Us of Coin Mixers’ Present and Future

The arrest of a Cryptoverse resident has brought to the surface yet again the questions of both the legality and the future of coin mixers, as well as the responsibilities of their developers.Source: iStock/RockardAs reported yesterday, Larry Harmon of Akron Ohio, the CEO of Bitcoin media site Coin...

, by Jon Buck

This Transparent Trader Among the Best on BitMEX, Handles USD 1B Daily

Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm and parent company of cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX, finds that anonymity can be sacrificed for a marketing opportunity. Source: iStock/da-kukThe firm decided to have its trading performance posted on BitMEX exchange's leader board under their...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Russian Banks Want to Eliminate Cryptocurrency Anonymity

Russian banks want to wipe out all forms of anonymity in cryptocurrency dealings – and make crypto ownership facts and figures public.Source: iStock/TARIK KIZILKAYAPer a report from media outlet RNS, the Association of Banks of Russia – a collective comprising many of the...

, by Tim Alper

Want to Buy ‘Virgin Bitcoin’? Be Ready to Pay 20% More, Says CEO

Buyers of so-called "virgin bitcoins" are paying up to 20% more for coins with no transaction history, Flex Yan, CEO of Babel Finance, a Hong Kong-based crypto financial services company, claims.Source: iStockIn a recent opinion piece, published by Bitcoin Magazine, he said that demand for the...

, by Ashwath Balakrishnan

Governments Keep Unintentionally Pushing People into Crypto

As people’s locked-away savings came under theoretical threat in Italy and citizens are increasingly worried about spying on them in China, the countries around the world are once again unintentionally pushing people into the arms of crypto. (Updated on 17:18 UTC: three first paragraphs have...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Texas Republican Wants to Ban Anonymous Crypto Transactions

A member of the Texas House of Representative has recently introduced a bill to ban the anonymous use of cryptocurrencies in the state, requiring anyone sending or receiving cryptocurrencies to go through “proper identification of individuals.” Although the community’s reaction to...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Tracking Stolen Bitcoins Is Getting Easier, Cambridge Says

A team of researchers from UK university Cambridge have found a way to track stolen bitcoins even after they’re laundered, giving law enforcement an entirely new and powerful way to track the proceeds of cryptocurrency crime for the first time. The algorithm, called Taintchain, is based on a...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Beam Goes Through Mimblewimble, Brings More Privacy for Crypto

The first cryptocurrency to employ the long-awaited privacy protocol Mimblewimble has launched under the name of Beam. The team behind the project explains that people will be able to determine by themselves “which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Authorities Just Reminded That They Can Track Bitcoin Users Down

Two Iranians who reportedly helped exchange Bitcoin ransom payments into Iranian rial on behalf of Iranian malicious cyber actors were caught as their Bitcoin addresses were identified by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This serves as an important...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Should You Be Scared of Anonymous Founders?

As Bitcoin proves, some cryptos with anonymous principals are legit. But first, ask the reason for the anonymity.Source: iStock/GeorgePetersCrypto is no stranger to anonymous founders. Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto was effectively anonymous, and the received wisdom says that this enabled the original...

, by Simon Chandler

Protecting the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in the Age of Blockchain

A new framework gives you full administrative control of your blockchain-stored data. Shutterstock There’s been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past year. Although best known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin, blockchain is starting to disrupt other industries, from supply...

, by Ali Dorri

Top 5 Privacy Coins: Features and Differences

Cryptocurrencies that focus on the privacy of their users - or, simply, privacy coins - have drawn the interest of many different people, all with a single priority: nobody should know how they spend their money. Bitcoin may not be as anonymous as most people think, but there is a number of coins...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

‘A Brilliant Idea’ for Bitcoin Finds its First Application in Zcoin

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcoin claims it has become first cryptocurrency that implemented Dandelion protocol, which is praised by the crypto community as an important development when it comes to increasing privacy for crypto users. Source: iStock/ithinkskyAccording to Reuben Yap, COO of...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Why This Man Scared Bitcoin Maximalists?

ShapeShift, one of the best known platforms offering peer-to-peer trading of digital assets, will require personal information from their users very soon, and it is making Bitcoin maximalists quite unhappy. ShapeShift has previously been described as “more in line with the original vision for...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Coin Mixers: How Do They Work and Should You Use Them?

Coin mixers are a service used by cryptocurrency owners in order to enhance the privacy and anonymity of the digital currency transactions. This is a service that is offered by third parties and is also referred to as coin tumbling. Source: dylan nolte/UnsplashThe practice of using Coin mixers...

, by Alex Lielacher

South Korean Investors Snubbing Real-name Crypto Banking

Media outlet Money Today claims that South Korean customers appear loath to open real-name cryptocurrency bank accounts. In January this year, the government unveiled guidelines that required cryptocurrency to Korean won transfers through banks to be made via special real-name, social security...

, by Tim Alper

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