A Stealth Force In Derivatives—Why Bitcoin Can’t Punch Past $80,000 Yet
Bitcoin (BTC) failed again to push back above the $80,000 level this week, a price point that has remained stubbornly resistant since early February. After struggling through the latest attempt to break higher, BTC retraced to around $75,400 on Wednesday. Bloomberg attributes part of this stagnation to a less visible but powerful force: positioning in the options market. According to the report, a concentrated set of call options has built up around the $80,000 strike on Deribit. Why Bitcoin Keeps Stalling Near $80,000 As Andy Baehr, managing director of asset management at GSR, explained....
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Execoin (http://execoin.net), the fast ASIC-resistant crypto currency, proudly presents the first open-source Electrum wallet with stealth addresses technology! After months of intensive development, the Execoin team has released its own open-source implementation of stealth addresses technology based on the Electrum-EXE wallet (http://electrum-exe.org/stealth). Unlike proprietary closed-source stealth payment solutions currently available on the market, the Electrum-EXE code can be audited in order to make sure that there are no security vulnerabilities or intentional backdoors .....
Stealth payments are a technique for protecting the privacy of recipients in a Bitcoin Transaction. So-called "standard" transactions are pseudonymous. ECDSA key pairs abstract the identity of users. No mechanism exists to hide or encrypt standard transaction information in the block chain. With stealth payments the exception, full transaction history is available for every Bitcoin address. A service like Blockchain.info is able to calculate balances this way. Conceptualized for Bitcoin by Peter Todd, but first mentioned in ByteCoin, Stealth Transactions enable stealth payments. The data....
Execoin very recently launched their new lightweight wallet made with Electrum. The wallet supports a brand new feature of stealth transactions which gives users the option of privacy when receiving payments from other users. In addition to stealth payments, the new wallet also eliminates the need for making backups and is ready to be used within minutes of download as it connects to the blockchain remotely. Disclaimer: The Author has some holdings in Execoin. For security purposes, the wallet does not share privately generated keys with the server. I got a chance to do some testing with....
"So far, [bitcoin users have] had to pick between simplicity and privacy," bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn told CoinDesk. "Stealth addresses let us have our cake and eat it." Hearn's reaction echoes others who have seen the block chain improvements proposed in a new paper by noted bitcoin developer Peter Todd, based on input from: Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back and Amir Taaki. Released via SourceForge on 6th January, the paper details the creation of a stealth address: a new type of bitcoin address that is being heralded as "revolutionary" for its ability to allow more anonymous payments on....
When you first lay eyes on the DarkWallet, you know you're looking at something unique. For starters, it's literally dark-the background is jet black. But the color theme is just the beginning of what sets this new privacy tool apart from all other wallets. For starters, the DarkWallet offers something that no other crypto wallet has before: a stealth Bitcoin address. Because Bitcoin's ledger of ownership, the blockchain, is available for all to see, the current balance and the full transaction history of any address is totally public. If your Bitcoin address is publicly known, you have....