Mimblewimble Attacked Using $60 Per Week on AWS
Ivan Bogatyy of Dragonfly Research says he was able to use as little as $60 per week on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expose a critical vulnerability on the Mimblewimble (MW) privacy...
U.S. Congress Wants to Grill Zuckerberg Again Before January 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in its Financial Services Committee to discuss the Libra cryptocurrency project before January 2020...
Tor Project Bitcoin Donation Fund Raises 65% on First Day
The group behind internet privacy project, Tor, has launched a bitcoin donation fund as part of their fight against web censorship and surveillance. Tor Teams Up With BTCPay The web...
Litecoin Price Pumps 10% After Mimblewimble Privacy Announcement
Litecoin has jumped in price by almost 11 percent in 24 hours following an announcement the altcoin could soon offer increased privacy. Mimblewimble Coming To Litecoin Data from...
Bitcoin ‘Tremendously Successful as a Store of Value,’...
Legendary cryptographer and digital money pioneer David Chaum explains to Bitcoinist why his newest project, Elixxir, is focusing on scalable privacy-focused digital cash and why...
‘How to Use Bitcoin Anonymously’ Article Gets Banned on...
Publishing platform, Medium, has allegedly jumped on the censorship “ban-wagon”, after suspending an account which posted a Bitcoin anonymity guide. Whilst Medium has not...
China Wants To Stop Anonymous Blockchain Use: Reports
New cybersecurity rules currently out for public consultation in China would notionally force users to provide their real identity to use any kind of Blockchain-based service...
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Businesses Aim to Scrape Perfection
Is it possible to for cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies to close in on perfection? One commentator notes that perfection is “utopic,” and difficult to define in...
DEA: The Number Of Illegal vs. Legal Uses of Bitcoin Has Swapped
If 90 percent of Bitcoin’s applications used to be tied to illegal activities in 2013, today, the cryptocurrency is being used for legal financial speculation in 90 percent of cases...
Blockchain DNA-Testing Lets Patients Sell Their Data
Recently, there has been a significant uproar surrounding many DNA testing companies after some of their data-selling deals began making the news. In the current climate, the...
The Google Pay for Bitcoin Wallets: Payment Codes and PayNym Bots
An emblematic, and probably the most controversial feature, cryptocurrencies brought to the world economy is absolute privacy. Lately, however, it seemed that this property was lost as...
London Police Proactive Against Alleged Cryptocurrency Money...
After a warning from European law enforcement agency Europol earlier this year that billions of pounds are being laundered through cryptocurrencies, City of London officials have...