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Anti-surveillance clothing and glasses designed to fool facial recognition
From adversarial patterns to infrared lights embedded in fabrics, a market for wearable products is challenging the biometric identification systems deployed across public spaces.
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RGB Protocol on Bitcoin: from a Milan lab in 2015 to mainnet
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin took roughly ten years to move from a research lab in Milan in 2015 to a live asset layer on mainnet in July 2025. This is the Atlas21 summary of the full history...
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EFF: anti-stealth crawler laws threaten the open web
The New York legislature has passed a bill requiring anonymous crawlers to identify...
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KaleidoSwap demonstrates native RGB on Liquid without a bridge
With 207 lines of backward-compatible code, Blockstream's sidechain becomes a third home for...
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Most smartwatch makers publish no transparency report, EFF finds
Of ten wearable makers reviewed by the EFF, only Apple and Google publish...
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ECB selects 36 providers for digital euro pilot
The European Central Bank has chosen 36 payment service providers to launch the...
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Thirty-nine trillion reasons
American sovereign debt follows a fiscal trajectory that no central bank can correct...
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The Fed’s independence is a legal fiction
The SCOTUS rulings of 29 June 2026 on independent agencies reveal that the...
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The sovereign debt trap: Japan explains everything
JGB yields at forty-year highs reveal the mechanism by which sovereign bonds erode...
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Greenspan and the great illusion: the Fed was never reformable
The death of Alan Greenspan offers an occasion to read the central bank...
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Igor Neumann: “Since the launch of Firefish we haven’t recorded a single liquidation due to price drops”
Atlas21 interviews the COO of Firefish who explains how the marketplace is bringing Bitcoin lending to retail users and traditional institutions through a non-custodial model.
John Carvalho: “Bitcoin doesn’t scale. We need to scale trust, not complexity”
According to the CEO of Synonym, speaking at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, the solution to scaling Bitcoin is to empower users to apply...
Dan Gould (Payjoin Dev Kit): “We aim to accelerate Payjoin adoption in 2026”
The lead developer of PDK spoke to Atlas21's microphones explaining how Payjoin can raise the privacy level for all Bitcoin network users.
CoinJoin: comparison of tools to improve privacy on Bitcoin
Wasabi Wallet, Whirlpool and JoinMarket: operational models, decentralization, costs, usability and waiting times to increase the privacy of your UTXO.
Spark: the layer 2 launched by Lightspark
Lightspark introduces a layer 2 for instant payments, stablecoins and interoperability with Lightning.
Guide to using the Liquid Network
How to use Bitcoin’s sidechain: peg-in, peg-out, and swaps.
Anti-surveillance clothing and glasses designed to fool facial recognition
From adversarial patterns to infrared lights embedded in fabrics, a market for wearable products is challenging the biometric identification systems...
EFF: anti-stealth crawler laws threaten the open web
The New York legislature has passed a bill requiring anonymous crawlers to identify themselves, and the EFF warns that the...
The Trojan horse of institutional adoption
When banks build custody infrastructure on Bitcoin, they replicate the fractional-reserve logic on the only asset with a mathematically fixed...
KaleidoSwap demonstrates native RGB on Liquid without a bridge
With 207 lines of backward-compatible code, Blockstream's sidechain becomes a third home for RGB assets after Bitcoin and Lightning, opening...
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin: from a Milan lab in 2015 to mainnet
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin took roughly ten years to move from a research lab in Milan in 2015 to a...
The digital panopticon dressed as child protection
Every law that requires documents to browse the web builds the infrastructure that tomorrow's regimes will use
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Anti-surveillance clothing and glasses designed to fool facial recognition
From adversarial patterns to infrared lights embedded in fabrics, a market for wearable products is challenging the biometric identification systems...
EFF: anti-stealth crawler laws threaten the open web
The New York legislature has passed a bill requiring anonymous crawlers to identify themselves, and the EFF warns that the...
The Trojan horse of institutional adoption
When banks build custody infrastructure on Bitcoin, they replicate the fractional-reserve logic on the only asset with a mathematically fixed...
KaleidoSwap demonstrates native RGB on Liquid without a bridge
With 207 lines of backward-compatible code, Blockstream's sidechain becomes a third home for RGB assets after Bitcoin and Lightning, opening...
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin: from a Milan lab in 2015 to mainnet
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin took roughly ten years to move from a research lab in Milan in 2015 to a...
The digital panopticon dressed as child protection
Every law that requires documents to browse the web builds the infrastructure that tomorrow's regimes will use
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