Crypto crimes are on the rise. Last year, scammers took home a record $14 billion in cryptocurrency. Criminals laundered $8.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency in 2021, up by 30% from the previous year, based on a report by Chainalysis. On February 8, the Justice Department announced that it seized more than $3.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency […]

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Bitcoin, an open-source monetary system, can supercharge open-source development projects and vice versa.

The ethos of Bitcoin is enabled by a range of critical open-source software projects. Consider supporting this list of 30 such projects.

There are three primary ways to take your Bitcoin participation to the next level: secure your keys, run a node and start mining from home.

Adam Gibson, aka Waxwing, is the lead maintainer for one of Bitcoin’s most prolific CoinJoin projects. And he sees a bright future for transaction privacy.

SWEEEPING REFORMS AND EFFECT ON STABLE COINS (The Digital Assets Market Structure and Investor Protection Bill.) The sweeping legal reforms and the down-under solution The “Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Bill” seeks to prohibit stable coins.    Proposed US Code section 5104(a) provides that “no person may issue, use or permit to be used […]

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Finding the right wallet is one of the most important steps any crypto holder can take. A proper wallet keeps coins safe from hackers. It also ensures you have autonomy over your money.  A report from Atlas VPN found how hackers managed to carry out 122 attacks in 2020, targeting decentralized applications (47), crypto exchangesRead More

So-called privacy coins use advanced techniques to shield details from public view, but they’ve come under increased scrutiny from regulators.

Edward Snowden who exposed a secret surveillance program of American citizens made headlines commenting on the privacy of Bitcoin. 

Core devs say the Taproot software update for Bitcoin will improve privacy. Edward Snowden said it doesn't fix Bitcoin's bigger privacy problem. Who's right?

Bitcoin transactions are easy to trace, except when the sender uses a mixer to muddle the link between their crypto address and real-life identity.