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ForkLog 124 24.08.2020

Australian exchanges drop Monero and other anonymous cryptocurrencies from listings

Privacy-focused coins such as Monero and ZCash have fallen out of favour with several Australian cryptocurrency exchanges.

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ForkLog 15 24.08.2020

Moscow authorities could stream data from city CCTV cameras to the public.

Moscow authorities may stream information from the city’s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, according to Kommersant, in one of the contracts for installing cameras.

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ForkLog 29 19.08.2020

RosKomSvoboda calls for a moratorium on Moscow’s facial-recognition system

RosKomSvoboda has filed or prepared a lawsuit against Moscow’s police and the Department of Information Technologies, seeking to impose a moratorium on facial-recognition technologies until adequate legal safeguards against abuse are in place, according to the RosKomSvoboda website.

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ForkLog 21 06.08.2020

Study: Bitcoin Remains the Most Popular Darknet Cryptocurrency

The Block analysts studied the payment options on darknet markets. It turned out that after Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrencies are Monero (XMR) and Litecoin (LTC).

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ForkLog 15 04.08.2020

Monero Community to Publish Guide on Listing Privacy-Centric Cryptocurrencies on Exchanges

The Monero cryptocurrency community (XMR) and privacy protocol developers from Tari Labs are preparing a guide for exchanges on dealing with privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. This was reported by Decrypt.

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ForkLog 12 31.07.2020

Elliptic: Twitter hackers who breached accounts laundered more than half of the bitcoins through two mixers

The attackers routed more than half of the bitcoins obtained through the hack of multiple Twitter accounts through ChipMixer and Wasabi Wallet mixers. This is stated in Elliptic's latest report.

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ForkLog 18 30.07.2020

DemHack winners to receive up to 1.5 million rubles for digital citizenship solutions

ForkLog has become the media partner of the DemHack hackathon, organized by the public organization RosKomSvoboda and the Teplitsa of Social Technologies project. Its participants will work on finding solutions for digital citizenship aimed at protecting rights and representing citizens’ interests in the digital environment.

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ForkLog 91 06.05.2020

What is CoinJoin? What is ZeroLink? What is STONEWALL?

1 What is CoinJoin? CoinJoin is a technique for anonymising bitcoin transactions. 2 Who created CoinJoin, and when? The CoinJoin protocol was introduced in 2013 by Gregory Maxwell, a Bitcoin Core and Blockstream developer. 3 What problem does CoinJoin solve? Contrary to a common refrain, bitcoin does not offer full anonymity. Analysis of the public blockchain can link transactions to an individual. […]

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ForkLog 86 09.04.2020

What is the darknet? What is Tor?

1 What is the darknet? Attention! The article is outdated and awaiting an update. The darknet is a hidden network on the internet in which connections are established only between trusted peers using non‑standard ports and custom protocols. The term “darknet” is often used interchangeably with “dark web”, the part of the web accessible via overlay networks—that is, darknets.

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ForkLog 51 17.12.2019

What is MimbleWimble?

1 What is MimbleWimble? A PoW protocol offering broad scalability and enhanced privacy; in the Harry Potter novels it is the "tongue-tying curse", hinting at concealed transaction data. 2 Who created it and when? An individual or group using the pseudonym "Tom Elvis Jedusor"; a white paper appeared on July 19, 2016, followed by Andrew Poelstra’s review in October and an early Grin implementation soon after.

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ForkLog 46 05.09.2019

How Bitcoin transactions are tracked

Bitcoin addresses are alphanumeric and pseudonymous, but every transaction is recorded openly, making activity traceable. Block explorers let anyone view balances, TXIDs and flows, while privacy tools such as CoinJoin provide only partial cover. For deeper, faster work, firms including Chainalysis, Bitfury’s Crystal and Elliptic sell analytics that link addresses, visualise flows and flag risks for exchanges and law enforcement.

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ForkLog 70 19.11.2018

What are privacy coins?

1 What are privacy coins? Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are peer-to-peer payment systems with their own unit of account, designed to ensure full confidentiality of financial operations through cryptographic protocols that make auditing network data difficult or impossible. Among the largest by market capitalisation are Monero, Dash and ZCash. 2 What is Monero? Monero is a peer-to-peer payment system based on the CryptoNote protocol that provides anonymity via ring signatures and stealth addresses. The protocol was created by Nicolas van Saberhagen and first implemented in Bytecoin, from which Monero is a fork [April 2014].

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