Tag: Privacy

Hester Peirce, a commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, has called for a change in how financial institutions handle Know Your Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements. Speaking at SIFMA’s Digital Assets Conference on September 23, Peirce said regulators should move away from collecting as much personal ...

TL;DR Darknet-related crypto transactions are increasing. This trend points not only to criminal activity but also to wider economic stress, capital flight, and changing trust in alternative financial systems. Changes in transaction volume, frequency, and asset use show shifting patterns. However, blockchain surveillance has limits; Wallet labelling is not always ...

Web3 privacy can be described as a long-overdue revolution in the era of ubiquitous surveillance, data mining, and platform oversight. Web3, with its decentralized buildup, was supposed to put power back into the hands of users, as it provides anonymity, ownership of data and digital freedom. But as the ecosystem ...

When joining a new social network or voting in an online poll, you'd typically have to prove you're a real person and not a bot. The internet has tried many ways to do this, from CAPTCHA (those puzzles that ask you to click on traffic lights) to uploading your ID ...

Quick Breakdown: Supreme Court ruling (Harper v. Faulkender, 2025): Confirmed the IRS’s power to use broad “John Doe” summonses for crypto, applying the third-party doctrine to blockchains. The decision raises questions about Fourth Amendment protections for wallets, exchanges, and public blockchain data. Outcomes could range from stronger government monitoring to ...

As many industries begin to adopt blockchain privacy solutions at high rates due to its innovation in data storage, fintech, and DeFi, they have had to contend with the disadvantages that this technology brings. Multi-Party Computation (MPC) blockchain technology has been seen to transform industries and how we interact with ...