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Bitcoin is Surveillance Money

15 Mar 2020 8 minute read 14 comments Mandica

The word "surveillance" might make you think of many different things, such as CCTV, GPS tracking, third-party tracking cookies in your browser, supercookies, and device fingerprinting. Think of recent events such as the June 2013 leak of secret NSA...

Should You Use a VPN for Cryptocurrency Transactions? (Honest Guide)

13 Mar 2020 7 minute read 19 comments CryptoMoneyMaker

Hey guys what’s up? How are you holding up these days during the ongoing market bloodbath?  I know it's tough and your emotions are probably running high, but just remember, in times like these it’s a good moment to remind ourselves that Bitcoin and...

$BAT One Step Closer To Netflix, Uber, Apple, Amazon...And 250,000 Other Brands

11 Mar 2020 1 minute read 26 comments Brawnd0

More incoming good news!  In what might be one of the biggest benefits for consumers yet, Brave just announced that the Basic Attention Token (BAT) will be redeemable on numerous platforms and service providers, including Netflix, Uber, Apple, Amazon...

PIVX - A New Kind of Privacy Coin?

11 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment cryptoramble

Join me for a chat with Crypto_Si (@crypto_si on Twitter) for a chat about PIVX, a fork of Dash but using zero-knowledge technology with a focus on privacy, and an upcoming Sapling protocol integration. We discuss the importance of privacy coins focu...

Brave Purchases half a MILLION BAT From the Market - Why is it a Big Deal?

10 Mar 2020 1 minute read 37 comments Brawnd0

Hello fellow Brave and BAT believers, I’ve got some mildly interesting news concerning the project that may have slipped past you.  The Brave team has repurchased over half a million - about 534,000 - BAT tokens, as a result of great performance with...

Trustless Custodians: A Decentralized Approach to Cryptocurrency Custodianship (Republication) [Part 3]

8 Mar 2020 4 minute read 0 comments abduraman

A Decentralized Approach to Cryptocurrency Custodianship Custodians play a crucial role in the shielding mechanism that turns cryptocurrencies - like BTC, ETH and USDT - into privacy coins [Incognito, 2019a]. Existing custodian solutions like Bitgo a...

Shielding Cryptocurrencies: Turning Any Cryptocurrency Into a Privacy Coin (Republication) [Part 2]

8 Mar 2020 3 minute read 0 comments abduraman

Shielding is the process of turning cryptocurrencies on other cryptonetworks (or “public coins”) into privacy coins on Incognito. Privacy coins Through Incognito, a public coin can be shielded to obtain its privacy coin counterpart of the same value....

Introduction: A Platform of Decentralized Privacy Coins (Republication) [Part 1]

8 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments abduraman

From now on, I start a new series. There is a new privacy chain in the field and I will republish the articles about it. I wrote "privacy chain" but let's call it "a privacy platform". While you are reading series, as you discover, it does not shield...

March 2020

8 Mar 2020 6 minute read 4 comments Alias

Welcome to the March 2020 newsletter. First, apologies for a missing February newsletter. The lack of said newsletter shouldn’t worry anyone too much. There has been a lot of activity behind the scenes. We have defined our mission and set out some gu...

Brave Browser: Introducing New Privacy Feature! Defend Against Fingerprinting.

8 Mar 2020 2 minute read 1 comment tomoyan

Browser fingerprint? What is it? A browser fingerprint is a set of information related to a user’s device from the hardware to the operating system to the browser and its configuration. Browser fingerprinting refers to the process of collecting info...