Amazing Crypto

Category: Privacy & security

  • We Must Solve Bitcoin’s Custody UX Problem

    Twelve years is the blink of an eye in historical terms, but it’s an eternity in tech. Just look at the cellphone, which went from niche accessory to absolute necessity in under a decade. Still, new technologies don’t always soar immediately: it took a quarter of a century for the humble washing machine to reach…

  • Video: Bitcoin Hardware And Security With Cobo’s Lixin Liu

    Video: Bitcoin Hardware And Security With Cobo’s Lixin Liu

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn This episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Bitcoin In Asia featured Lixin Liu, the head of hardware at Cobo and the creator of the Cobo Vault, out of Shanghai. Lixin’s background in hardware and international product development, most recently in robotics with Hover Camera, made him the preferred choice…

  • Video: Securing Bitcoin With Zach Herbert Of Foundation Devices

    Video: Securing Bitcoin With Zach Herbert Of Foundation Devices

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles and Zach Herbert, the CEO and co-founder of Foundation Devices, sit down to discuss the company’s launch and its first product, the Passport hardware wallet. During the conversation, Keroles and Herbert dive into the design…

  • Everything You Need to Use Bitcoin Safely, From Beginner to Expert

    Everything You Need to Use Bitcoin Safely, From Beginner to Expert

    This is a promoted article provided by SatoshiLabs. To succeed, Bitcoin must be attractive and intuitive to all kinds of users. Making an ecosystem that serves everyone’s needs equally is a significant undertaking, but it’s made much easier through collaboration. There are four fundamental tiers of user that need to be defined if they are…

  • As Governments Seek Encryption Backdoors, Bitcoin Becomes Critical

    As Governments Seek Encryption Backdoors, Bitcoin Becomes Critical

    On November 6, 2020, the Council of the European Union released a “Draft Council Resolution on Encryption.” The document is supposed to serve as a precursor to a final text to be presented to the Council, on November 19 for potential legal adoption. It emphasizes support for data encryption in general, but also notes the…

  • Don’t Fall For The Biggest Mistake In Bitcoin

    Bitcoin is highly technically-secure as a protocol, meaning that there is only one reason why you’d ever lose your coins: human error. As with many things, people are the biggest security vulnerability in Bitcoin and, as we know, humans are far harder to fix than code. Two stories from last month showed how far we…

  • Wasabi Wallet 2.0 Announced, Focusing On Privacy Ahead Of Mass Adoption

    Wasabi Wallet, a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, today announced Wasabi Wallet 2.0. It expects the product to release sometime in the next three to 14 months. Wasabi Wallet is a free and open-source desktop wallet that leverages CoinJoin mixing to obscure transaction history by combining multiple bitcoin payments from multiple parties into single transactions, so that…

  • Video: Wasabi, Crypto Anarchy And Freedom W/ Max Hillebrand

    Video: Wasabi, Crypto Anarchy And Freedom W/ Max Hillebrand

    Listen to the episode here: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast For this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host CK sits down with Max Hillebrand (@HillebrandMax), a prolific Bitcoin education and member of the Bitcoin privacy research group zkSNACKs. The pair dive into updates on Wasabi Wallet (ZKSnacks’ primary product) and discuss higher-level introductions to…

  • How Bitcoin Mixers Help Protect Privacy

    This is a promoted article provided by bitcoinmix.org. Bitcoin mixers are services that mix BTC from different sources to obscure their transaction history. Using these services, Bitcoiners can protect their privacy and keep prying eyes from assessing the history of their funds or other information about them. Bitcoin addresses are pseudonymous, and don’t inherently reveal…

  • New Civil Liberties Alliance Challenges IRS Collection Of Private Crypto Investment Data

    If you’re a bitcoin trader or investor, you’ve probably traded on multiple cryptocurrency exchanges and, for the most part, trusted that those exchanges are keeping your data secure from unlawful data collection just like a bank or credit card provider would. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.  On July 15, 2020 (Tax Day…