The Human Rights Foundation Is Now Funding Bitcoin Privacy Development, Starting With CoinSwap
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) was already promoting Bitcoin’s privacy features. Now, it will also fund the development of them....
Privacy & security
A Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy Part 2: Don’t Be Misled by Red Herrings
In Part One of this treatise, we examined the fundamental relationship between Bitcoin and privacy by going back to the...
EARN IT: The US Anti-Encryption Bill That Threatens Private Speech Online
There’s a new bill in the works to fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other risky services on...
A Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy Part 1: A Match Made in the Whitepaper
Introduction How one’s focus can shift in just two weeks! While today everybody in the Bitcoin space seems more concerned...
“Your Expectations of Privacy Are Too High” (But They Shouldn’t Be)
Bitcoin mixing, the practice of scrambling one’s bitcoin with others in order to obscure the connection between an individual’s identity...
The Bitcoin Mixing Case at the Center of the Fight for Transaction Privacy
A court case is underway in the United States that could become a watermark decision for Bitcoin transaction privacy and...
Bitcoin Fungibility, Mixing and the Legal Limits on Maintaining Privacy
On February 13, 2020, Larry Harmon, of Akron, Ohio, was charged with three counts: (1) conspiracy to commit money laundering,...
Screen Printing, Paralelní Polis and Cryptoanarchy With Martin Fischer
On a cold February night in 2003, citizens of the Czech capital could see a big red question mark hovering...
Amir Taaki on Bitcoin and Building Dissident Technology in 2020
Amir Taaki was one of Bitcoin’s first-ever dedicated developers and perhaps the one most infamously focused on maintaining privacy and...
Privacy Isn’t Radical: How Tor Supports Dissent as a Human Right
Around the world, the human rights to privacy and freedom are compromised online. With the unending attacks on encryption and...
