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SearchEngine.Party: Search Engines Classified by Privacy and Security
Search Engine Party is a web page for comparing popular search engines across some privacy-centric data points.
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Tracing ASIC Fingerprints to Reshape Our Understanding of Bitcoin Mining - Report
"This paper introduces a methodology for determining the market share of every major Bitcoin mining machine, or ASIC, by analyzing nonce patterns and incorporating data sourced from real-world ASICs."
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Report: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry
River's new research report explores the adoption of Bitcoin in the context of the $156 trillion global payments industry.
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A New Class of ECDSA Signature Vulnerability Observed in the Wild on the Bitcoin Blockchain
"Our analysis illustrates how vulnerabilities in a custom ECDSA implementation can not only reveal private keys, but can also be used to compromise Bitcoin-pseudonymity and addresses to (online) personas."
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BIP for Silent Payments Is Out For Review
The Silent Payments BIP is finally out for review, together with a WIP implementation for Core, wrote developer Ruben Somsen on Twitter.
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Miner Fee Gathering Capability: Out of Band Fees
BitMEX Research team took a look at the fee differences between actual Bitcoin blocks produced by miners and the fees one may expect, based on a local Bitcoin Core node.
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Scaling & Anonymizing Bitcoin at Layer 1 with Client-side Validation
Maxim Orlovsky of LNP/BP Standards Association introduced a new proposal for scaling and anonymizing Bitcoin at layer 1 with client-side validation.
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Lightning Payments: When Are They Too Small To Secure?
"When making low value payments on the lightning network, especially in “high” onchain fee environments, the security benefits of the lightning’s HTLC system may be somewhat limited."
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A Collection of Resources Related to Covenants
"Covenants are a category of proposed changes to Bitcoin’s consensus rules that would allow a script to prevent an authorized spender from spending to certain other scripts."
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Darkpool (Tarpit): Privacy Preserving Cooperative Self-Custody Pool on Bitcoin
"Darkpool is chaumian blinded ecash like co-op mixing pool for self custodial savings accompanying Mints."
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Ark: Layer 2 Protocol For Cheap, Anonymous Off-chain Payments
"Ark allows recipients to receive payments without acquiring inbound liquidity while preserving their receiver privacy. Ark is as private as WabiSabi, as convenient as on-chain, and as cheap as Lightning."
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Screens Are Not a Panacea: Server as a Screen
Block's Max Guide shared the company's latest design considerations for a secure and easy to use signing device.
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