Fed Chairman Shows Support For Private Crypto Transactions
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell testified this morning in front of the House Financial Services Committee, on the state of the U.S. economy and monetary policy. During his testimony...
Zcash Surges as Community Votes to Redistribute Crypto Mining Rewards
Proposals to distribute crypto mining rewards to project development have been coming thick and fast recently. Zcash is the latest community to agree to do this and the privacy token...
Top Bitcoin Benefits Naysayers Need to Know
Anyone dealing with bitcoin or even reading this will have at some stage had to explain it to someone with no knowledge. It is not always easy, but keeping these major benefits in mind...
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,’ Says David Chaum...
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 Medium
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...