The Government Is Not Your Friend
Bitcoin Magazine The Government Is Not Your Friend Yesterday’s guilty verdict for Roman Storm on the count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money service business is absolutely insane. FinCEN,…
Tornado Cash Trial Concludes: Roman Storm Found Guilty on One of Three Counts
Bitcoin Magazine Tornado Cash Trial Concludes: Roman Storm Found Guilty on One of Three Counts Today in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm was…
Tornado Cash Trial Enters Week Three, Defense’s Expert Digital Forensics Witness Takes the Stand
Bitcoin Magazine Tornado Cash Trial Enters Week Three, Defense’s Expert Digital Forensics Witness Takes the Stand Today, on day 11 of the Tornado Cash trial, Dr. Edman, co-founder and partner…
Takeaways from the Final Tornado Cash Status Conference Hearing
Bitcoin Magazine Takeaways from the Final Tornado Cash Status Conference Hearing Today, the Southern District of New York (SDNY) hosted a final status conference hearing for the Tornado Cash case,…
How CoinJoin Anonymity Can Be Undermined Using Clustering
Bitcoin Magazine How CoinJoin Anonymity Can Be Undermined Using Clustering Anonymity is the end goal when studying privacy, and it’s useful to think of de-anonymization as a game. We imagine…
The Scroll: A Brief History of Wallet Clustering
Bitcoin Magazine The Scroll: A Brief History of Wallet Clustering Our previous post in this series introduced the basic idea behind wallet or address clustering, the trivial case of address…
The Spiral Scroll: Wallet Clustering Basics
Bitcoin Magazine The Spiral Scroll: Wallet Clustering Basics The Bitcoin transaction graph has various observable patterns, with wallet clustering of highest importance. Some of these patterns have been studied and…
Ethereum Foundation Backs Roman Storm With $500K Ahead of Trial
The Ethereum Foundation has donated $500,000 to support Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s legal defense ahead of his July trial on money laundering and sanctions charges. Storm, arrested in August…
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Speaks On Privacy And Permissionlessness At PubKey
Bitcoin Magazine SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Speaks On Privacy And Permissionlessness At PubKey Yesterday, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce sat down for a fireside chat with NYDIG founder Ross Stevens at…
Biometric Data Security Under Scrutiny After Coinbase Suit; Expert Urges Modular Privacy
A class-action lawsuit against Coinbase has raised concerns about biometric data collection and storage practices by technology companies. Nanak Nihal Khalsa argues argues that relying on immutable biometric identifiers poses…