Benjamin Powers

Powers is a tech reporter at Grid. Previously, he was privacy reporter at CoinDesk where he focused on data and financial privacy, information security, and digital identity. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, and the New Republic, among others. He owns bitcoin.

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Brave Acquires Tailcat to Create Private Search Engine Competitor to Google

The move comes as privacy continues to grow in profile to become a real market advantage.

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Wasabi Wallet and Bull Bitcoin Donate $40K in Crypto to Bitcoin Knots Development

The donation will encourage developing and pursuing open-source tech.

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Privacy Coin Firo Temporarily Disables Protocol to Investigate 'Suspicious Transactions'

Core devs have activated their emergency switch to temporarily disable Lelantus.

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New Social Media Platform Instars Leverages Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography

Instar leverages blockchain and multiparty computation to protect user data.

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Opera Adds In-Browser Crypto Options With Simplex Integration

Integrating a crypto on-ramp lets users pay fiat for crypto.

The Opera browser has added Simplex integration.

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Brave Browser Was Exposing Addresses in Tor Mode for Months

Not only were .onion domain requests observable but so were all domains in Tor tabs. And they had been for months.

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Ideamarket Is a Literal Marketplace for Ideas (and Online Reputation)

The goal is to relieve social media platforms of the task of making judgments on behalf of the public.

How would you rate your information providers?

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SecretSwap Is the Secret Network’s Answer to DeFi Privacy

SecretSwap works similarly to Uniswap or SushiSwap but also has privacy benefits.

Secret contracts allow encrypted data to be used without revealing it on a public blockchain, or even to the nodes involved.

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Popular Crypto App Found to Have Ties to Data Tracking Company: Report

Bitcoin Ticker Widget and a clone of Steemit were found to contain data trackers.

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Square-Led Consortium Challenges Craig Wright's Bitcoin White Paper Claim

The response asks general questions regarding Craig Wright's claims.

Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc.