Haveno, a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) focused on privacy and built around Monero, has reached a significant milestone by facilitating its 1000th trade. This achievement highlights Haveno’s importance in providing a decentralized, censorship-resistant alternative to centralized exchanges, which are increasingly delisting privacy coins like Monero due to regulatory pressures. By allowing true peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions without…
The recent TD Bank money laundering case highlights the stark hypocrisy and double standards in the financial system’s enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) policies. Despite facilitating over $670 million in laundered funds and failing to monitor $18.3 trillion in customer transactions, TD Bank and its executives face minimal consequences, paying a symbolic…
In what can only be described as a “legally hostile environment”, developers of privacy-enhancing and decentralized technologies face an uncertain and precarious legal future, with outcomes that often resemble a “kangaroo court” scenario. Courts are increasingly interpreting the act of writing code as equivalent to criminal activity if the tools are used for illicit purposes,…
The European Union’s stringent regulatory approach under the MiCA framework is stifling the development of digital assets, as seen in the delisting of Monero and Tether by Kraken and Coinbase. These measures, aimed at controlling privacy coins and stablecoins, undermine the foundational principles of cryptocurrency, which were built on decentralization, privacy, and financial freedom. By…
The recent breach of U.S. telecommunications networks by Chinese hackers highlights the dangers of government-mandated backdoors in digital systems. Despite being intended for lawful surveillance, these backdoors were exploited by bad actors, exposing sensitive communications and undermining national security. This incident underscores the flawed notion that backdoors can be secure, as any such vulnerability inevitably…
The recent legal efforts to criminalize software development, weaken encryption, and erode digital privacy represent a profound threat to the foundational principles of Western civilization, such as free speech, intellectual freedom, and personal autonomy. These actions undermine long-held legal protections, stifling creativity, innovation, and individual rights while paving the way for authoritarian surveillance and state…
The surprise release of a new privacy wallet named Ashigaru (Japanese for foot soldier) forked from Samourai’s pre-existing privacy wallet, which was released by an anonymous team, whose servers are hosted in Russia, outside the reach of tyrannical US government authorities, has demonstrated defnitively, that privacy in Bitcoin has not died. Ashigaru is the Response…
