With governments increasingly exploring and launching their own digital currencies, we might worry that crypto just can’t compete with national financial infrastructures. Not so, Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum co-founder) spoke with Block TV podcast on March 4 about his predictions for…
In November 2019, security firm Risk Based Security called last year the “worst year on record” for breaches, with almost 8 billion records affected. Third-party control over personal data makes privacy something that is no longer a given. Blockchain technology seems to…
Recent research by the European Central Bank (ECB) claims that it is possible to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment system that protects user privacy. Per the report dubbed “Exploring anonymity in central bank digital currencies,” the European…
“Blockchain is going to be the tool that ties together not just individual companies, but whole business ecosystems and networks,” says EY global innovation lead Paul Brody. “Enterprises will not go on to the public mainnet without privacy and security.”…
France is apparently seeing a surge in cryptocurrency adoption. In late September, over 25,000 points-of-sale of 30 French retailers had been installed. Including sportswear giant Decathlon and cosmetics store Sephora will start accepting BTC payments by early 2020. As earlier…
If you could go back in time and do the internet all over again, what would you change? Would you think twice about joining Facebook, decline to upload those fancy dress photos from ‘09 and delete that rhetoric-laden blog post…
Obtaining reliable information about darknet markets (DNMs) is a constant struggle, given the propensity of news sites and forums to come and go. Dead Man’s Switch Dread is dead. The darknet forum where buyers and sellers gathered to exchange links,…
Preserving your online privacy has become almost a lost cause these days. Reading the User Agreement Everyone has multiple online accounts. Most of us are worried about their digital personality being targeted by data collectors and marketing researchers. We are…
The Electric Coin Company (ECC) says it discovered a new way to scale blockchains with “recursive proof composition,” a proof to verify the entirety of a blockchain in one function. For the ECC and privacy coin, the new project, Halo, may hold…
There’s now an underground service catering to criminals that lack the skills or nerve to hack into online accounts to steal funds. According to a September report from security-as-a-service firm Armor, hackers on dark markets are now selling fiat cash for fractions…