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Litecoin's privacy feature testnet returns as news emerges that Europol sees privacy and coin mixing technologies as major digital threats 2021 Total views 4 Total shares Litecoin (LTC) has relaunched its MimbleWimble testnet — a protocol designed to enhance privacy and obfuscate the traceability of distributed ledger transactions.MimbleWimble is a modified implementation of the proof-of-work…

Russia's parliament, the State Duma, will adopt the country’s major crypto bill “On Digital Financial Assets” (DFA) in the next two weeks, according to a local senior finance official. The news was reported by Russian government-backed news agency TASS on June 19.Russia's deputy finance minister, Alexei Moiseev, revealed that the State Duma is currently considering…

A consortium of big crypto companies, including Coinbase, has just launched a new certification scheme for Ethereum node operators called NORS. 

On April 26, 2011, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly left the nascent cryptocurrency community to work on other projects. Nobody has been able to track them down ever since. 2488 Total views 19 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) creator Satoshi Nakamoto left the cryptocurrency community with a parting message exactly one decade ago today: “I’ve…

The additions to the board follow the confirmation of a new CEO, CCO, and COO in August. 810 Total views 16 Total shares Coinsquare, a crypto exchange that has been under the scrutiny of Canadian regulators following allegations of wash trading, said it will be adding two new members to its board of directors.In a…

PBoC maintains its anti-crypto stance despite local players experimenting with digital yuan-pegged stablecoins. 881 Total views 41 Total shares The rapid adoption of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) poses a major challenge for the traditional financial system, an executive at the Chinese central bank has warned.Wen Xinxiang, director of the payment and settlement department at the…

Bitcoin Open Interest has jumped by over a billion following the United States Federal Reserve ‘dovish’ minutes on Aug. 21.

A new study warns of a new ransomware attack method that runs a virtual machine on target computers in order to infect them with the ransomware. This may play the attack beyond the reach of the computer’s local antivirus software.According to the UK-based cybersecurity firm Sophos, the Ragnar Locker attack is quite selective when choosing…

United States retailer Overstock.com has announced it will pay part of its business taxes in the state of Ohio using Bitcoin (BTC), according to an announcement on its website Jan. 3.Overstock will cover commercial activity taxes (CAT) with Bitcoin starting February, using the recently launched cryptocurrency taxpayer platform, OhioCrypto.com.The company’s CEO and founder Patrick Byrne…