Privacy
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The challenge for Worldcoin lies in demystifying the technology and clearly articulating its incentives
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It’s refreshing to find those who are willing to openly debate bitcoin with evidence and logical reasoning instead of physical combat
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The industry-first general purpose zk programmable blockchain charts a fresh course
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Three Democrats joined Republicans Thursday in supporting a bill that would block the Federal Reserve from issuing a retail CBDC
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This case is a big deal — so big, in fact, that one wonders whether the crypto community fully appreciates its gravity
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Worldcoin-related activity currently makes up 43% of activity on Optimism, a Dune dashboard suggests
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Code for the Orb’s main application and private key storage were released with some redactions
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FHE differs from zero-knowledge technology, as it can perform computation on top of encrypted data without revealing data points
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Worldcoin told Blockworks it was given “little recourse” other than filing a suit
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Worldcoin must cease collecting and processing personal data in Spain, according to a press release Wednesday
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Blockchain transparency is making Web3 the surveillance tool it was meant to free societies from
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But total privacy is not the answer — DAOs need a combination of transparency and selective private governance to succeed
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2024 could be the year for privacy applications to cross over to non-crypto internet users
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After the destruction caused by a typhoon, the reality of sending money to my family in the Philippines was a fee-heavy and delay-filled nightmare
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They may use different cryptographic techniques, but all privacy-centric L2s hope to be the first on Ethereum
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The first mainnet version of Nocturne has limited functionality, but more features are in the works
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Privacy enabling zero-knowledge functionality needn’t be limited to layer-2 and could be applied to Ethereum’s base layer, research shows
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zPass is based on a research paper on “zk-creds” designed to use zero knowledge for age verification
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The latest functionality to join the DePIN stack is written in Rust and will allow developers to compute encrypted data
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