The central bank needs to balance privacy for users with "international consensus" on risk control, the director of the PBoC's Digital Currency Research Institute said
The nonprofit behind the popular messaging app is accepting donations in 12 cryptocurrencies through The Giving Block.
The funding round will be followed by a range of upgrades to the computing platform.
Taproot is the largest upgrade Bitcoin has seen in years, and many are proposing projects on top of it.
Genesis Block Ventures, IOSG Ventures and others co-led the seed round.
The move comes as privacy continues to grow in profile to become a real market advantage.
The software innovations and educational efforts align with the HRF's mandate to protect human rights.
Core devs have activated their emergency switch to temporarily disable Lelantus.
Instar leverages blockchain and multiparty computation to protect user data.
Integrating a crypto on-ramp lets users pay fiat for crypto.
Not only were .onion domain requests observable but so were all domains in Tor tabs. And they had been for months.
SecretSwap works similarly to Uniswap or SushiSwap but also has privacy benefits.
Bitcoin Ticker Widget and a clone of Steemit were found to contain data trackers.
Cryptocurrencies "challenge the ability of governments to levy taxes and to control capital flows more broadly," the report says.
Scaling, privacy and custody software will all benefit from Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years.