Tag: Privacy

Bitcoin Lightning fix blocks a probe linking private channels to onchain funding

Lightning Improvement Package (LDK), software program used to construct Bitcoin Lightning purposes,…

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A Midnight privacy-vault demo needs outside signers to release Ethereum tokens

Withdrawals from SIG Community’s experimental Ethereum vault require its signing community, despite…

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Bitcoin Core’s privacy fix reaches v32 code while the v31 patch remains open

Bitcoin Core has merged a privateness repair into its 32.x supply department…

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Bitcoin researchers target privacy coins with Zcash-style shielded transfers

Bitcoin researchers have proposed a system for personal transfers immediately on the…

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Bitcoin may go quantum-safe while Lightning privacy stays exposed

Even when Bitcoin finally adopts post-quantum protections for on-chain outputs, 5 components…

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Ethereum’s client diversity picture fractures under incompatible estimates

Ethereum validators depend on independently constructed consensus purchasers to agree on the…

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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin puts 60% odds on a cryptography breakthrough that could weaken Wall Street middlemen

Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% likelihood that superior cryptography turns into low…

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Ethereum’s privacy push hits a numbers problem: one proof needs nearly twice the proposed gas allowance

A Sept. 5 proposal would let some Ethereum nodes settle for privateness…

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Ethereum proposal would cut 33,800 ETH issuance and break every deployed Altair light client

A newly merged Ethereum proposal would retire the community’s 512-validator sync committee,…

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