A quiet rebellion against copyright is being waged on a single website by a freelance coder, using cryptocurrency where PayPal won’t do. Bitcoin as a censorship-free money has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the...
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Ethereum is losing its privacy, warns a new paper, as “careless” users make linking their addresses to real-world identities easy. With the disquieting title, “Blockchain is Watching You,” the paper – a joint-publication from researchers at the Institute for...
New research warns cryptocurrency users that the Lightning Network can expose financial information of bitcoin payments thought to be anonymous. A second financial layer, the Lightning Network was proposed in 2016 to improve the speed, affordability and privacy of...
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) wants to sponsor a post-doctoral researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency. In a job listing posted late...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have co-developed technology they say can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency payments networks. The “Spider” crypto routing scheme, according to its developers – including Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, a graduate student at...
A blockchain-based system that will be used to allow Moscow residents to vote in municipal elections this autumn is very easy to hack, according to a research note from a French cryptography expert. Titled, “Breaking the encryption scheme of...
A U.S. Department of Energy science lab has been studying studying how well three popular cryptos performed in Reddit chats. According to a press release provided exclusively to CoinDesk, data analysts at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) measured the speed...