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Bitcoin’s newest mobile privacy feature can make your incoming money completely invisible
A 255,434-block study puts one scanning feed near 8 MB a day while completeness remains unproven.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 6 min read
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Ethereum’s privacy push hits a numbers problem: one proof needs nearly twice the proposed gas allowance
An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance.
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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin puts 60% odds on a cryptography breakthrough that could weaken Wall Street middlemen
Cheaper encrypted computation could eventually challenge roles played by custodians, auditors, exchanges and clearinghouses.
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Users exposed by Trezor breach grows sixfold after supposedly deleted shipping logs are found
The larger disclosure implies roughly 80,689 affected customers, though no combined total or row-level overlap check is public.
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Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets
Grayscale's ZCSH has grown rapidly since launch as traders pile into derivatives and ZEC returns to crypto’s top 10.
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Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix it
At block 1,371,000, v0.14.18.0 restores multi-input private spending and makes older software incompatible.
Regulation
Thailand puts private wallets and offshore crypto transfers on notice in a major new crypto rule
Licensed crypto operators must add recipient data to transfers, collect extra details above 30,000 baht and verify some self-hosted wallets.
Hacks
Leaked compliance records shatter anonymity of 291 crypto users by matching names directly to wallet activity
Copied support records exposed varying combinations of identity, location and compliance data, while private keys and customer funds remained safe.
Hacks
Onslaught of AI-found bugs forces Bitcoin’s Core Lightning into a secret 14-day emergency lockdown
Core Lightning is urging node operators to upgrade or go offline as multiple vulnerabilities remain under embargo.
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40 malicious Firefox add-ons targeted crypto wallets, and 9 began as sports-score tools
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Ethereum proposal would cut 33,800 ETH issuance and break every deployed Altair light client
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Zcash surges 62% to $880 as holders prepare to vote on changing how ZEC is issued
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