gregory maxwell
CoinJoin’s First Steps: How Dark Wallet Paved the Way for a More Private Bitcoin
The crypto anarchist story of Dark Wallet, the first bitcoin wallet with a CoinJoin mixer built in.
Wasabi Wallet Launches #BitcoinIsSafe Campaign to Counter Erroneous Antivirus Detections
Through the #BitcoinIsSafe, #WasabiIsSafe campaign, the Wasabi Wallet team wants to keep Bitcoin Core from being flagged by antivirus software.
How the New Erlay Protocol Could Speed Up the Bitcoin Network
A forthcoming Bitcoin Improvement Proposal could greatly reduce the bandwidth required to run a full node.
Samourai Wallet’s Privacy-Enhancing Whirlpool Now in Public Beta
Samourai Wallet has published the public beta version of Whirlpool, a Chaumian CoinJoin implementation meant to enhance privacy.
Blockstream Moves Ahead with Sidechain Elements, the First Implementation of Sidechains
The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, formed the company Blockstream to implement sidechains...