Category: Privacy & security

  • Unboxing And Review: Hodlr Disk

    Unboxing And Review: Hodlr Disk

    In this Bitcoin Magazine unboxing, Christian Keroles took a look at the brand new and very impressive Hodlr Disk by Hodlr Swiss. The Hodlr Disk is a very impressive, robust and complete Bitcoin seed-back device. The team at Hodlr Swiss clearly thought through the main ways that a user would want to back up their…

  • Bitcoiners Run Hardware

    The internet, which is the network we currently use for our Bitcoin needs, was supposed to be decentralized, verifiable and private. But after decades of choosing comfort, ease and speed, the internet today is actually quite centralized, with millions of websites and services’ information stored in a few data centers, all of them served by…

  • Achieving Bitcoin Anonymity Through Mixers

    This is a promoted article provided by BitMix.Biz A bitcoin mixer, also known as a bitcoin blender or tumbler, is a service designed to ensure the anonymity of Bitcoin transactions using a special mixing algorithm where bitcoin from several sources are combined and mixed to rid coins of compromising traces of past transactions to hide…

  • Human Rights Foundation Provides Grants To Specter, Lot49

    Human Rights Foundation Provides Grants To Specter, Lot49

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced the latest beneficiaries of its ongoing Bitcoin Development Fund: Bitcoin developer Ben Kaufman and the team at Global Mesh Labs will each receive grants of $25,000. HRF launched its fund last year and it has supported privacy- and sovereignty-enhancing…

  • Interview: Securing Bitcoin With Anchorage’s Diogo Monica

    Interview: Securing Bitcoin With Anchorage’s Diogo Monica

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast On this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host CK sat down with the cofounder and president of Anchorage Custody, Diogo Monica, to talk about the innovative ways that Anchorage is creating better cold storage conditions for institutional bitcoin and crypto asset storage. Anchorage has become…

  • Not Your Node, Not Your Validation

    Not Your Node, Not Your Validation

    From afar, the Terracotta Army seems to exhibit homogeneous redundancy, but each soldier’s unique facial features portrays a rather diverse army. Source. Part 1: The Redundant Reminder Of Node Redundancy “It won’t succeed unless the user experience is simply better than trusted third parties, but we need to start the education process with the very…

  • Proof Of Keys: A Critical Test For Bitcoin

    Proof of Keys day was initially created as a test for exchanges and other third-party custodians — a way for individuals to ensure that third parties holding bitcoin weren’t operating as a fractional reserve. Let’s face it: It’s likely that many third-party bitcoin custodians are doing just that, and Proof of Keys day is unlikely…

  • Interview: The Fight For Freedom Money With Randy Brito

    Interview: The Fight For Freedom Money With Randy Brito

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn On this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host Christian Keroles sat down with Randy Brito, the cofounder and CEO of the Locha Mesh project. Brito is a diehard Bitcoiner who has escaped persecution in Venezuela and is working every day with the mission to make Bitcoin…

  • Interview: The Fight For Freedom Money With Randy Brito

    Interview: The Fight For Freedom Money With Randy Brito

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn On this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host Christian Keroles sat down with Randy Brito, the cofounder and CEO of the Locha Mesh project. Brito is a diehard Bitcoiner who has escaped persecution in Venezuela and is working every day with the mission to make Bitcoin…

  • A Fraud Risk Management Framework For The Bitcoin Ecosystem

    With the growth of Bitcoin’s popularity, more businesses are starting to accept it as a mode of payment. As with any financial asset, increased acceptance is coupled with a rise in fraud attacks. Although Bitcoin was designed so that transactions are publicly verified, the Bitcoin ecosystem will always witness attempts at double spending as a…