News about Crypto

by COINS NEWS - 1 week ago

If you delve deep enough: the privacy of any cryptocurrency using Pedersen Commitments as cryptographic primitive is DOA because PCs are neither public key rerandomizable nor pk updatable. This forces UTXO & single use outputs downstream, which leak patte

TLDR: Any form of digital cash using Pedersen Commitments as cryptographic primitive is not private. Pedersen Commitments force some architectural decisions that make any form of digital cash that uses PCs as cryptographic primitive to hide amo...

by COINS NEWS - 1 week ago

Daily Crypto Discussion - January 6, 2026 (GMT+0)

Welcome to the Daily Crypto Discussion thread. Please read the disclaimer and rules before participating. Disclaimer: Consider all information posted here with several liberal heaps of salt, and always cross check any information you may read on th...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 week ago

My advice for everyone in crypto

This is the second mistake in a row for me and potentially the last; calling it quits... So I started leverage trading back in 2019 or so and was dumb about it got liquidated and swore I'd never do it again. Stuck with spot and it was going well...