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Wasabi Wallet users need to upgrade to the latest version if they want to continue using the CoinJoin feature to keep their Bitcoin transaction histories private. That’s because those running older iterations of the wallet can no longer use this feature to mix their coins with users who have the newest
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Privacy-focused Bitcoin software wallet Wasabi is getting a major protocol overhaul. The Wasabi team is working on a new protocol design, dubbed WabiSabi, in a bid to improve the user experience and privacy guarantees of the wallet’s CoinJoin transactions. The major design change would allow users to coinjoin with different values
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Transaction data associated with crypto wallets used in the infamous Twitter hack suggests that out of the total of $123,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC), about 22% (approx. 2.89 BTC) was sent to an address, that blockchain analysis firm Elliptic believes is a Wasabi wallet. Hackers Using Wasabi Wallet to Erase Digital
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Funds collected by the scam that breached twitter this week appear to be on the move, cryptocurrency tracing firm Elliptic said. According to transaction data associated with crypto wallets used in the security breach, a total of about $123,000 was collected by the attackers. Of that about 22%, 2.89 BTC, was
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[sociallocker id="55298"] Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has its eyes on the popular bitcoin privacy tool Wasabi Wallet, documents verified by CryptoX show. Marked for “law enforcement only,” a two-part report by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) analyzed the privacy tool’s impact on using the Bitcoin blockchain to investigate
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2020 may see crypto’s most consequential fork yet: A split between regulated exchanges and privacy-focused users.Late last week, Binance's Singapore arm threw crypto Twitter into a frenzy with reports that it had allegedly suspended one user’s account. The problem? That user, @bittlecat, had tried sending their bitcoin to the hash-scrambling
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Tech investment company Cypherpunk Holdings has completed an equity investment worth $337,500 in zkSNACKs, the firm behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency wallet Wasabi.Cypherpunk announced the news in a Nov. 21 press release, specifying that it thus acquired a 4.5% stake in zkSnacks. With the acquisition, Cypherpunk’s chief investment officer Moe Adham
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The privacy-centric Wasabi Wallet, launched by zkSNACKs in 2018, just raised its first equity investment from Cypherpunk Holdings, a publicly-traded Canadian fund. Source
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