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Editorial notes on the world of anonymity: tool releases, law changes, incidents — and what they mean for people who value privacy.
Seventy exchanges dropped Monero. It went to $500.
Delisting is supposed to kill a coin. Two years and seventy venues later, the experiment has produced the opposite result, and it is worth understanding why.
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Monero got a new way out, and it is not an exchange
The week after the delisting headlines, a decentralised network quietly did the thing the delisted exchanges used to do.
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The safest place for your passport scan is nowhere
In August alone, two crypto companies told their customers that the identity files they were required to hand over are now in someone else's hands.
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Best no-KYC crypto exchanges: what the levels actually say
Most lists of the best no-KYC exchanges are written by exchanges. Here are the numbers instead: of twenty-five exchange-type services in this catalogue, nine ask for nothing at all — and the rest ask only sometimes, which is the whole story.
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Anonymous crypto wallet: what it hides and what it does not
A self-custodial wallet never asks for ID — and that is the least interesting thing about it. What separates a private wallet from an ordinary one is whose server learns your addresses, whether it speaks over Tor, and where the coins came from.
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nokyc.watch - Privacy-friendly and no-KYC crypto services
Every year it gets harder to spend money without explaining yourself. This catalogue answers three questions about a crypto service — will it demand your documents, what will it learn about you, does it work right now — and shows how each answer was checked.
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