Tax season is here in the U.K. — and it’s time crypto investors buckled down to file their cryptocurrency tax returns correctly. There have been a lot of indications that the U.K.’s Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is starting…
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Do CoinJoin Mixes Really Require Equal Transaction Amounts for Privacy? Part Two: Knapsack
Although Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper suggests that privacy was a design goal of the Bitcoin protocol, blockchain analysis can often break users’ privacy. This is a problem. Bitcoin users might not necessarily want the world to know where they spend…
Maintaining Transaction Privacy in the Age of Government Blockchain Analysis
On January 17, 2020, British tax collection department Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published an open contract seeking bid applications for tools that can track, identify and associate bitcoin transactions with real identities. Correspondingly, developers of such “intelligence gathering…
How Payswap Can Confuse Blockchain Analysts, Benefiting Bitcoin Privacy for All
Although Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper suggests that privacy was a design goal of the Bitcoin protocol, blockchain analysis can often break users’ privacy. This is a problem. Bitcoin users might not necessarily want the world to know where they spend…
2019 Saw Most Exchange Attacks Ever, With Hackers Becoming More Savvy
As cryptocurrency exchanges beef up their security to defend themselves against cyberattacks, hackers are responding in kind by amping up their techniques — and the data shows that they’re finding success. Cryptocurrency exchanges faced more successful attacks in 2019 than…
The Fed Has Pumped $500 Billion Into the Repo Market. Where Does It End?
In September 2019, the interest rate for the overnight money market — a short-term lending market where banks borrow cash from each other to meet reserve requirements at the end of a business day — surged to 10 percent. Banks…
Video: Reviewing the Billfodl Multishard
Bitcoin Magazine reviewed the Billfodl Multishard, a two-of-three stainless steel recovery seed storage device that allows you to split your seed into three shards, ensuring that, even if someone finds one part of your phrase, they won’t be able to…
Review: HTC Exodus 1s, the Full Bitcoin Node Smartphone
When it launched during The Lightning Conference in October 2019, HTC’s Exodus 1s smartphone took on the ambitious mission of endowing Bitcoiners with a device that delivers the security of a hardware wallet and the privacy and sovereignty of a…
The Kindest Cut: Why the 2020 Bitcoin Halvening Is the Most Important Yet
In May of 2020, bitcoin will see its next halving: the reduction of the reward for successfully mining a block. The Nakamoto white paper specifies that every 210,000 blocks, the reward for successfully mining a block is cut by half.…
Remembering Tamás Blummer, Pioneering Bitcoin Developer
Tamás Blummer, a Bitcoin developer since 2012 and founder of several groundbreaking Bitcoin-focused projects, reportedly passed away on January 12, 2019, after a long fight with cancer. Among Blummer’s contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem were Rust Bitcoin, a project focused…