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Tools for Humanity Corporation, Worldcoin’s parent company, has reached an agreement with the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) to stop its operations until the end of 2024. The stoppage of operations comes due to growing concerns about its data storage and usage practices among regulators. Worldcoin faces rising friction from regulators due to its policies surrounding the use of personally identifiable information, like facial patterns and iris scans. It offers users the WLD token...

Crypto privacy protocol Railgun has denied accusations that it is being used by North Korea and other United States-sanctioned entities to launder digital assets. This development comes as the crypto privacy protocol nears $1B total volume. Railgun Denies Lazarus Group Association Responding to claims made by crypto reporter Colin Wu through an X post, Railgun denied allegations linking it to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. “The North Korean hacker group Lazarus...

Zcash, a privacy coin built on Bitcoin tech and one of the more popular privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, will be welcoming Josh Swihart as the new CEO of its developer, the Electric Coin Company (ECC). Stepping Down For Self-Care In an article posted on Zooko’s personal Medium – which is separate from the one usually used to post Zcash-related content – the former CEO stated that the eight years at the helm of the ECC had led to a certain degree of conflation between himself...

Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020: London ist Europas Nummer eins an der Spitze der weltweiten Startup-Regionen, Berlin fällt zurück The British Treasury has decided that crypto companies do not need to collect information about users‘ wallets. As a result, users will not have to prove that a particular receiver address belongs to them. The reason for this decision is that the government is concerned about privacy. No good evidence for...

Blockchain and crypto startup Nym is unveiling a new incentive program for those that engage in bitcoin transactions while running the company’s nodes.Nym Is Looking to Empower Internet UsersThe main goal of Nym appears to be privacy. The company has designed software that works to hide metadata and prevent tracking at a network level. As it turns out, whenever we go on the internet, we are potentially in danger of having our identities or other private information revealed or stolen. How...

Besser als Bitcoin? Der Krugerrand ist eine Anlagemünze und Kurantmünze, die in Gold, seit 2017 auch in Silber oder Platin geprägt wird. Als die meistverkaufte Goldmünze der Welt ist die Krügerrand-Münze schon fast legendär. Fast jeder hat schon von ihr gehört und viele besitzen sogar eine oder mehrere der Münzen, doch was viele nicht wissen, die Goldmünze besteht nicht zu hundert Prozent aus Gold. Ob sich der Lauf dennoch lohnt oder es...

Hey Crypto Fans, welcome to Bitcoin-Informant Show No. 888. Today i speak with Naomi Brockwell about crypto, bitcoin, decentralized content platforms like LBRY, privacy and other related topics. More about Naomi Brockwell here: https://cointr.ee/naomibrockwell Find all my links here: https://cointr.ee/bitcoininformant Telegram Kanal: https://t.me/bitcoininformantLBRY.tv: https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@bitcoininformant:eSteemit: https://steemit.com/@denniskorayHIVE:...

A privacy-based technology known as Mimble Wimble has been integrated into various privacy tokens since last January. The trouble is, it may not be as private as people originally thought.Mimble Wimble Isn’t Doing Enough to Keep Your Identity a SecretA new study shows that the first privacy coins to implement the technology are ones referred to as Grin and Beam, both of which are very new and are hardly being used at all at press time. This could be why the technology is so easily...

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that bitcoin and the crypto industry probably need to up the ante on their privacy protocols. While blockchain is typically more secure than other forms of digital finance technology, we are often hearing stories about exchange hacks and malicious actors that seek to get their fingers on digital funds that just don’t belong to them.Bitcoin Privacy Needs to Be UppedKevin Pan, the CEO of Poolin (one of the top three bitcoin mining pools in the...