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Review of anonymous cryptocurrency PIVX
Considering that all data about us (passport, phone number, name of relatives, etc.) Can be found in open sources of information, credit card data intruders can either steal or buy in the darknet, and the state has unlimited access to your transactions, and more sadly, at any time can block your accounts or withdraw the amount due to payment of fines and taxes (And everything would be nothing, but often you really owe the state nothing, and the money from you was withdrawn by mistake), And social media and messaging are watching us ostensibly to fight terrorism...
5 лет назад
Anonymous Mail Protonmail. Part 2
SSL encryption Of course, the emails are already encrypted before sending, But in addition to all this, ProtonMail has also implemented the SSL certificate as an additional level of security. It prevents...
5 лет назад
Anonymous Mail Protonmail. Part 1
A secure (really secure), anonymous, off-the-radar email service is a necessity of an hour, isn't it? Well, that's where this Protonmail review begins. What if I tell you the government. Can you spy on each of your emails? Is each of your files shared over the Internet along with email providers and third-party hackers? This is because in some situations the law obliges email providers to cooperate with the government. to the fullest, and they, as "commercial" organizations, did not feel the need to engage in a fight with the Government...
5 лет назад
What technologies make Bitcoin more anonymous? Part 2
Schnorr's signatures for CoinJoin and more Although CoinJoin - including Chauumovsky - was always possible and offered a few years ago, it was not very popular until recently. For a long time, this option was not offered by any popular wallet, perhaps because CoinJoin transactions increase complexity, providing little advantage to those who do not care much about privacy. The signatures of Schnorr, which recently submitted an official proposal to improve Bitcoin (BIP) developer Bitcoin Core and Blockstream Peter Wuyle, can help provide such benefits...
5 лет назад
What technologies make Bitcoin more anonymous? Part 1
Since its inception, Bitcoin has never been truly confidential. Although satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper suggests that privacy is the goal of developing a protocol, government agencies, analytics companies and other stakeholders - call them "spies" - have ways to analyze public blockchain and peer-to-peer network, grouping Bitcoin addresses and establishing their connection to IP addresses or other information that allows identification. Lack of privacy is a problem. Bitcoin users may not want the...
5 лет назад
What CoinJoin is and how to use it to ensure the anonymity of bitcoin?
CoinJoin is a protocol that enhances the confidentiality of bitcoin transactions. With it, multiple parties can send funds in a single transaction without the risk of theft. It was first proposed in 2013. The essence of the protocol The CoinJoin protocol allows several Bitcoin customers to create a jointly signed transaction after agreeing with each other: it will contain funds from the wallets of these customers. This action allows you to mix balances into one common. This allows you to obtain anonymity, but not to send your money to other services, that is to reduce the risk of theft...
5 лет назад
Security on localbitcoins and other exchanges
This is not an instruction for fraudulent schemes! Here are the cases that you buy/sold cryptocurrencies carefully and safely! Triangle and compromised cards. You sell bitcoins on localbitcoins or through bots. You receive payment, and you approve the transfer of your cryptocurrency to the buyer's wallet. There may be two scenarios: - later a fake man calls and says he transferred you money by mistake and will complain to the police, - a buyer who was deceived by the same fraudster who was given your number to transfer calls...
5 лет назад
Is Reddit blocking 15% of Tor's output?
According to Reddit users in various parts of Tor and Privacy, Reddit - or reddit's CDN, Fastly - blocks access to many Tor users and directly blocks exit sites in Germany. Node stats According to a report in the Tor subreddit, Reddit or their network content delivery (CDN) block access to Tor users...
5 лет назад
Interesting facts about bitcoins. Part 2
Silkroad, one of the most popular and largest markets of the dark web. 5% of bitcoin's total turnover and economy before the market closed and its foundations were arrested by the FBI. After the takeover of Silkroad, the FBI thus owned about 1...
5 лет назад
Interesting facts about bitcoins. Part 1
One bitcoin would have cost you about $200 in January 2015, and that $200 would have been $8,000 today in just 2 years! Or you could cash it out last year when 1BTC reached $20,000! Although you could...
5 лет назад
Bitcoin and privacy. How cipherpunks realize the dream of a free Internet of the future? Part 2
The advent of bitcoin was the beginning of numerous technological improvements and innovations based on the already working system, which cipherpunks enthusiastically began to expand and modify. However, it is also important that although bitcoin was primarily declared as an electronic money system that allows electronic transactions between participants directly, the white paper also focused on the privacy of users. "The traditional banking model maintains the necessary level of confidentiality by providing access to information only to party parties and a trusted third party...
5 лет назад
Bitcoin and privacy. How cipherpunks realize the dream of a free Internet of the future? Part 1
They write the code. Their code is open to everyone and can be used for free. But they don't do it out of altruism - they know that someone in this world has to write code and create programs that help protect privacy. They are convinced that privacy, including from state structures, whose attention to people's private lives is becoming more and more close every day, is one of the fundamental rights of people. And to help them, of course, comes cryptography. Their name may not yet be legion, but at least they have it, and that name is cipherpunks...
5 лет назад