Market Leaders Disappoint in Open Bitcoin Privacy Project Report
Leading Bitcoin companies such as Coinbase, Blockchain.info (Web and Android) have performed disappointingly in the recently released OBPP Bitcoin Wallet Privacy Rating Report, Spring 2015. The Overall Wallet Privacy Rankings for the following Bitcoin companies, along with their scores out of 100, has been given below: DARKWALLET - 54. ARMORY - 54. MYCELIUM - 50. BITCOIN WALLET - 46. ELECTRUM - 46. AIRBITZ - 45. BLOCKCHAIN (WEB) - 22. MULTIBIT CLASSIC - 19. BLOCKCHAIN (ANDROID) - 14. COINBASE - 11. The Overall Wallet Privacy was sub-divided into Usability, Quality, and Feedback. To the....
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The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP), has released a report on 10 leading Bitcoin wallets, setting standards for privacy that they argue are much needed in the space. The Bitcoin wallets in the report include Coinbase, Blockchain.info, Mycelium, Darkwallet, Airbitz, Armory, Electrum, Bitcoin Wallet and Multibit Classic. According to the report, Darkwallet is the most privacy-concerned wallet, while Coinbase falls on the other end of the spectrum. OBPP is a Bitcoin privacy research organization lead by prominent figures in the Bitcoin community, including Kristov Atlas, a well-known....
How private is your bitcoin wallet? The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP), a global, not-for-profit organization devoted to improving financial privacy in the bitcoin ecosystem, attempts to offer some guidance with its Bitcoin Privacy Rating Report. OBPP has released its second edition of the report, scoring 20 wallets on their privacy features. The top ranking in this report goes to Ledger, which earned a score of 50 out of 100 possible points, based on usability, quality and feedback. OBPP’s goal is to make financial privacy visible so that users can make informed choices about privacy....
A new report by an open-source advocacy group has found that bitcoin users still face major threats to their privacy. The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) published its latest study today, which explores the state of bitcoin privacy throughout 2016 and identifies key vulnerabilities in the ecosystem. Composed of developers and researchers in the bitcoin space, OBPP has previously weighed in on user privacy issues related to bitcoin wallets, releasing two editions on the subject since 2015. The newest report identifies four major threats that confronted bitcoin users over the past year.....
Although Bitcoin has a reputation as a haven for criminals who wish to transact online in an anonymous manner, it doesn’t appear the currently available wallet options are very helpful for this potential use case of the digital cash system. In their second edition of the Bitcoin Wallet Privacy Rating Report, released Sunday, the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) has painted a rather dismal picture of privacy in Bitcoin wallets. The OBPP report says that many privacy-focused initiatives for Bitcoin “stalled out” in 2015. In the introduction to the report, OBPP contributor Kristov Atlas....
Bitcoin wallet providers Darkwallet and Armory performed the best in an independent test that sought to identify the strongest wallet offerings for financial privacy. Darkwallet version 0.8.0 and Armory version 0.93.1 both received top scores of 45 out of 100 from the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) Spring 2015 Wallet Privacy Rating Report, the first release from the open-source organisation that seeks to promote and improve privacy in the bitcoin ecosystem. Scores were based on performance in five categories that assessed the privacy the wallets offered from blockchain observers and....