Bitcoin is a pseudonymous cryptocurrency. Many users ignore this fact and don't exercise extra caution when making transactions. They reuse wallet addresses or simply use KYL/AML (Know Your Customer/Anti-money Laundering) verified coins purchased on centralized markets to buy "illegal" stuff on the Darknet. In
I caught up with Pavol Luptak to talk about crypto anarchy, its tools, and implications for free and voluntary society. Pavol is a crypto-anarchist and voluntaryist focused on IT security, technology, and society hacking. He runs a successful IT security business and speaks about security and data privacy at numerous
HTTP has massive privacy issues designed into the protocol that allows attackers to eavesdropand hijack your content. Implications of these attacks may go from none to very serious like stealing your identity and even money. In an effort to encrypt the Web, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and a certificate authority
Recently, I went to the Philippines for a short vacation. I exchanged some money in Bank of Taiwan beforehand just to find out I was massively ripped off by a huge spread of ~30%. One of my Filipino facebook friends advised me to use a local service instead - Coins.
Reusing the same Bitcoin wallet address is a big privacy issue. If you have a simple e-shop or a website which asks for donations you may want to consider generating unique addresses for each transaction instead. There are numerous payment systems such as Bitpay that do all the hard work