The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) models in recent years is contributing to the escalating problem of personal data harvesting, or “grabbing,” by major tech companies, Calanthia Mei, the…

Tornado Cash developers have issued a scam warning to cryptocurrency users who made deposits via the IPFS’ gateways between Jan. 1 and Feb. 24. Developers suspect that an exploiter may…

Fluidkey has announced it has opened its Optimism-based alpha to more users, allowing them to test their private solutions. Fluidkey seeks to solve the transaction privacy problem in EVM chains…

The delisting of monero by Binance marked a significant turning point for privacy coins, showcasing the growing impact of regulatory demands on privacy-focused projects, while also spotlighting emerging projects like…

Diana Tlupova, Head of Compliance at Nexera ID, has argued players in the decentralized finance (defi) space can stay ahead of regulators who might want to impose stringent Know-Your-Customer (KYC)…

Privacy is a complicated subject. It’s not always a simple binary thing, private or not private, seen or unseen. Seen by whom? Private from whom? Private to what degree? If…

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is sending a letter to clients notifying them that after losing a lengthy court case, they will need to turn over sensitive data to the Internal Revenue…

One of the fundamental limitations of the Lightning protocol is how payment routing is handled and accomplished. It is entirely source routed, meaning that the sender of a payment is…

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Withdrawal Issue”. Click here to subscribe now. A PDF pamphlet of this article is available for download.  Late last month, a bipartisan…

Zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups are coming to Bitcoin. Recently, two different projects took turnkey steps into turning this development into a reality for the original cryptocurrency, an advancement that could help…