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Twitter hack leads to coinjoin spat

July 20, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Wednesday’s dramatic Twitter hack has led to a spat between a firm of cryptocurrency investigators and a provider of bitcoin privacy software. More than a fifth of the funds raised […]

Facebook scales back global currency plans

April 16, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In an updated version of its white paper, released today, the Libra Association says it is scaling back its initial plans for a global payments medium and instead focusing on […]

Border wars

January 10, 2020 0 comments

A December incident at the frontier between traditional money and cryptocurrency highlights tensions over access to the global financial system. Just before Christmas, a cryptocurrency investor and twitter user called […]

Could governments split bitcoin?

November 8, 2019 0 comments

Governments appear to want to split bitcoin into two. But will they succeed? In June, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a group of 36 governments seeking to address money […]

Can bitcoin avoid fragmentation?

April 11, 2019 0 comments

Money in the traditional financial system is highly segmented, depending on its form and user. Can new digital currencies avoid going down the same road? Coins and banknotes, deposits at […]