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Title: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: Collinberg on April 06, 2019, 06:00:05 PM
I remember when I first discovered Blockchain Technology in 2015 and I was instantly attracted to the prospect of sending funds from one part of the world to another without exposing my personal details to anybody or any third party services and for a couple of years,. I have been enjoying the ultimate privacy that Blockchain provides.

Recently there has been talks of Cryptocurrency regulation but while it is all well and good, I think that Cryptocurrencies would not really be "Cryptocurrencies" if that were to happen because it would have lost one of it's most fundamental features which is decentralisation and Anonymity.

Even though Regulations has not been fully implemented yet, we are now gradually losing our privacy without us even knowing it's happening, take to example the BLOCKCHAIN WALLET which is one of the trusted wallets to transact Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Stellar, they used to be one of the blockchain wallets that used to preach about privacy but recently they have added KYC to the platform and even started rewarding people $25 to do the KYC, this is a blatant slap to the fundamentals of Blockchain technology.

But all hope is not lost because as some big giants in the blockchain world are moving towards centralisation, other Blockchain services are cropping up to continue the lagacy of Satoshi Nakamoto and one of such projects is the Veil Project, the motto of the Veil Project is "Privacy Without Compromise" and that is what caught my eyes and made me take a closer look at it.

Veil's aim is a trustless blockchain platform that takes privacy to a whole new level, it is so private that when you make transactions in the veil Ecosystem, even your IP cannot be traced, I think we need more projects like Veil in a time like this when the big dogs are so focused on invading our privacy, if you want to check out Veil, just visit- https://veil-project.com/

So what is your opinion? Is Veil the future of Cryptocurrency?
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: backfirst77 on April 06, 2019, 06:44:10 PM
Because to avoid the theft of data that we upload when registering or verifying data while conducting online activities. So that maintaining privacy will make us safer and more comfortable in utilizing a system or platform that uses blockchain. And it will always make our privacy safe and secure.
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: jet on April 06, 2019, 09:54:54 PM
privacy is important, if it is stolen, we are doom. I think, there are lot of project that offers decentralized sending of funds, anyway, this is what backchain has promise to everyone. We will keep this way to hide our self from thefts and all other bad element that might use our identity for their personal gain.
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: ZionRTZ on April 06, 2019, 10:29:12 PM
This is the second topic already that I've seen about veil. First one is here https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=106539.msg649315#msg649315

I'm not sure if you guys are part of Veil's marketing campaign but I think the proper place to post topics on specific altcoins is here https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?board=16.0
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: aiviaa485 on April 07, 2019, 06:07:47 AM
Bank - Centralized - Privacy.
Cryptocurrency - Decentralized - Privacy.

If we compare with Bank and Crypto, both of them also have privacy and are equally needed.
So , we don't need to argue with PRIVACY because Privacy is the main character in cryptocurrency.
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: LogiC on April 07, 2019, 09:49:22 AM
Ive bump as well into veil project. It is not the only zerocin present out there but they are the one first implemented a totally anonymous zerocin that integrate both POW and POS consensus. Actually it is hard to maintain both but they did it. Hope eth can do both as well.
Title: You Might Not Have Realised It But Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Not Anonymous
Post by: Collinberg on April 10, 2019, 01:59:25 PM
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Do you recall the very recent Report (https://coinidol.com/hacked-coinbene-used) about the alledged hack of Coinbene Cryptocurrency exchange where all the ERC-20 tokens in their hot wallet was stolen and liquidated in Idex and in other to keep the exchange afloat and avoid panic, the owners of Coinbene replenished their coffers with Maximine tokens? Have you wondered for a second that if blockchain technology is so anonymous, how were those transactions traced?

Cryptocurrencies are built on a public ledger network that can be viewed by anybody, imagine your wallet balance can be viewed by anybody, all your transactions can be viewed by anybody  and this poses a security risk, imagine if your bank account and bank transaction records become public knowledge, that would automatically make you a target if you have huge funds in there.

For example in the case of Coinbene hot wallet, if the hacker had not been able to see the amount of funds contained in the wallet, they would not have been able to target it, infact they would not even know the wallets to even target, this reason alone is why many people has fallen victims to Cryptocurrency hacks.

This is why Privacy Coins are needed in a time like this because these are Cryptocurrencies that can enable you to enjoy blockchain technology without the associated security risk and recently I discovered a privacy coin called Veil (https://veil-project.com/) which  takes privacy coins to a whole new level my taking the already existing technology and making improvements on them to make the protocol airtight.

One thing that fascinated me about Veil is the fact that there was no ICO or Pre-mine but the main net has already been launched and is working as advertised. If you are interested in privacy coin like me, I would encourage you to check out Veil (https://veil-project.com/) and tell me what you think about it.

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Title: Re: You Might Not Have Realised It But Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Not Anonymous
Post by: masterrex on April 10, 2019, 06:00:47 PM
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Do you recall the very recent Report (https://coinidol.com/hacked-coinbene-used) about the alledged hack of Coinbene Cryptocurrency exchange where all the ERC-20 tokens in their hot wallet was stolen and liquidated in Idex and in other to keep the exchange afloat and avoid panic, the owners of Coinbene replenished their coffers with Maximine tokens? Have you wondered for a second that if blockchain technology is so anonymous, how were those transactions traced?

Cryptocurrencies are built on a public ledger network that can be viewed by anybody, imagine your wallet balance can be viewed by anybody, all your transactions can be viewed by anybody  and this poses a security risk, imagine if your bank account and bank transaction records become public knowledge, that would automatically make you a target if you have huge funds in there.

For example in the case of Coinbene hot wallet, if the hacker had not been able to see the amount of funds contained in the wallet, they would not have been able to target it, infact they would not even know the wallets to even target, this reason alone is why many people has fallen victims to Cryptocurrency hacks.

This is why Privacy Coins are needed in a time like this because these are Cryptocurrencies that can enable you to enjoy blockchain technology without the associated security risk and recently I discovered a privacy coin called Veil (https://veil-project.com/) which  takes privacy coins to a whole new level my taking the already existing technology and making improvements on them to make the protocol airtight.

One thing that fascinated me about Veil is the fact that there was no ICO or Pre-mine but the main net has already been launched and is working as advertised. If you are interested in privacy coin like me, I would encourage you to check out Veil (https://veil-project.com/) and tell me what you think about it.

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Well as i know according to my IT engineer friend no system is 100 percent secure in the internet all has vulnerabilities thats why in order protect funds from hacking just use offline wallets or cold wallets.
Title: Re: You Might Not Have Realised It But Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Not Anonymous
Post by: Jereh on April 10, 2019, 10:07:21 PM
I believe that this privacy issue is the reason why done potential invest9rs are finding it hard coming into the market.
Title: How Privacy Coins Are Restoring Privacy To Blockchain Transactions
Post by: Collinberg on April 13, 2019, 02:22:24 PM
It is ironic that blockchain was created for the sole purpose of convenience, fairness and Anonymity( and not in that order) but with all the numerous blockchain project popping up everyday, many of them has been straying from the fundamentals of blockchain technology and some of them even go as far as bribing users to provide the or personal information and I won't mention names(Cough Cough Blockchain wallet)... so imagine my joy when I stumbled upon a project that is solely focused on protecting our privacy.

The Veil Project (https://veil-project.com/) is a privacy coin with the motto, “privacy without compromise.” It was created to grant users the ability to remain incognito while engaging in transactions on the blockchain. Before we delve into the specifics of Veil, we will first cover the privacy protocol it uses, known as the Zerocoin protocol.

The protocol was devised back in 2013 by John Hopkins University professor Matthew D. Green and his graduate students Ian Miers and Christina Garman. The aim was to create an extension for Bitcoin which offers optional anonymity in the Bitcoin network.

The process involves converting public Bitcoins into anonymous Zerocoins and back again. The public token is referred to as a Basecoin, while the anonymous coin is known as a Zerocoin. For Veil, the public token is called Basecoin Veil and the anonymous coin is dubbed Zerocoin Veil.

However, rather than use the word ‘public,’ Veil use ‘on-chain’ because their Basecoin transactions are also made anonymous. Veil want to give users the functional ability to convert crypto into Zerocoins and then spend them at a later date entirely anonymously.

But, in Bitcoin for example, to ensure the monetary supply can be audited, the creation of a Zerocoin cannot be fully anonymous. This is because of a process known as ‘minting,’ which refers to when a Zerocoin is created. However, to mint a Zerocoin, a Bitcoin (public token) has to be taken out of the total supply to be ‘burnt.’

Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCTs) are also used by Veil to further increase anonymity. RingCTs are added to Basecoin transactions to bring as much anonymity as the technology currently allows for.

Alongside this, Bulletproofs technology has also been adopted to help reduce transaction sizes. Eventually, the Veil network will implement a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm to ensure maximum decentralisation and energy efficiency. But, for at least its first year, the Veil network will be using a hybrid approach with Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining. However, since it is a hybrid approach, it will also have PoS benefits.
Title: Privacy on the blockchain....a necessity?
Post by: Jereh on April 13, 2019, 04:25:43 PM
Ever since the creation of bitcoin ,the blockchain technology has grown exponentially.
Unfortunately , the adoption rate is never encouraging and this could be attributed to the security challenges that seems  to be threatening the continuous growth of the blockchain technology.
Security issues in this context is the traceability of users transaction history.
This issue has become a concern to potential institutional investors who would want to invest into cryptocurrency but are reluctant due to the issue of transaction history being viewable by just anyone .

Hackers seem to be having a field day stealing users funds because they can trace transactions to senders and so are in the position to know what wallet has good amount of funds or not.
I do not think I would be wrong if I say that the structure of the blockchain is indirectly egging hackers on.
 the world is going digital and as such people should be given the right over their transactions data on the blockchain.
The current structure of the blockchain today makes it easy for people to view ,monitor anothers transactions history .

In the quest to solve this issue, some projects came up with technologies , unfortunately these technologies didn't provide a holistic solution to the issues.
This is where veil project comes into the mix.

Veil is committed to providing a hollistic solution by improving upon the solution of other projects by combining cutting edge technologies such as the Dandelion technology, bullet proof technology , version 0.17.1  together with the advanced cryptography based privacy protocol zerocoin etc.
https://veil-project.com/

Title: Re: Privacy on the blockchain....a necessity?
Post by: Annalise on April 13, 2019, 05:48:15 PM
Yes I think that privacy on the blockchain is a necessity.
I also agree with you that this issue of transactions being viewable by anyone needs to be addressed and urgently too.
It's so not cool that others can view and monitor my financial transactioon the blockchain.
Hopefully, this project veil gets it right.
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: dragononcrypto on April 13, 2019, 05:49:56 PM
I have merged these three recent topics, all promoting Veil Project, to your original topic here about the project. Please don't continue to create new topics advertising this project, they will only be merge to this topic and you will receive -K. Feel free to create new topics discussing blockchain privacy, if it's not blatant advertising. Thanks!
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: Chomzzy on April 13, 2019, 06:00:57 PM
The security challenges of the blockchain could be said to be one of the reasons why mainstream adoption is still the topic of discussion in groups.
I can't imagine other people having the power to view ttransactions I make on the blockchain.
Title: Ever seen a cryptocurrency use Proof of work and proof of stake together??
Post by: Lektai on April 14, 2019, 02:11:43 AM
So i just came across this project while doing my research and i noticed something unique about it, asides from the fact that it poses to offer but security and anonymity was something that strucked me, and increased my inquisitiveness about the project, so after doing a ton of research i get to realize that this project which already has its own wallet runs the two consensus algorithm without any back lashes, I wouldn't want to bore you with stories, do yourself a favor and check them out by searching "veil project"




Title: Veil - offering privacy and anonymity
Post by: Lektai on April 14, 2019, 09:29:56 PM
 Monero (xmr) set the pace for privacy token in the cryptocurrency industry as it was dubbed to be used by drug Lords in the early 2017 hence it's spike in price, however we are yet to see a privacy token like that of monero again, but why bank on privacy alone when you can have both privacy and security token, without further ado allow me introduce you to VEIL , veil token is a token formed from the technology behind monero usin ring ct technology and zcoin using zerocoin protocol, with the combination of these two technology a coin which offers privacy, security and anonymity has been formed, VEIL coin has a whole lot more to offer , considering the fact that it already had its mainet jan 2019 and has been waxing strong ever then even for a project That is less than 1 year old
Title: The Emergence of Privacy Coins, Challenges & Solution Offered by Veil Technology
Post by: Giletto on April 15, 2019, 12:46:41 AM
Cryptocurency was developed as an asset with unique cryptographic architecture to securely and obscurely carry out transactions. Even bitcoin, the mother of all cryptocurrencies started as a currency in the dark web before surface web adoption. But is cryptocurrency entirely private? No! Addresses can be traced and usually indestructible. So, the idea of developing a coin with a one - time address to conceal transactions details and history emerged.

Moreno developed a technology that can create a one time address that breaks the link between the users and recepient but that doesn't mean that transactions histories can't be revealed to trusted parties by retrieving the stored data. This stored data can be huge and most times drags scalability which is a problem.

Veil uses several core privacy technologies to improve coin privacy and build further on the developments of Monero and Zcoin. Veil employs zero knowledge proofs through Zerocoin protocol to hide all forms of transaction details between the sender and receiver.

By Dandelion protocol, transactions under veil network can't be traced back to its source. And by Bulletproof technology, Veil ensures that transaction sizes are reduced to barest minimum in bid to increase scalability a multiple folds which other privacy coins competing with Veil hardly offer.

Title: Re: The Emergence of Privacy Coins, Challenges & Solution Offered by Veil Technology
Post by: Lektai on April 15, 2019, 02:01:44 AM
 I have been going through the VEIL project and after doing my due diligence one thing i can say for sure is that this project has a lot more to offer asides privacy, security and anonymity, asides going through the tokenomics of the project, the team behind veil project are on course to set a serious pace in the cryptocurrency sphere
Thats all I'll say for now
Title: Re: The Emergence of Privacy Coins, Challenges & Solution Offered by Veil Technology
Post by: MVT$ on April 15, 2019, 09:46:51 AM
An account created only to promote Veil. I think they are running a bounty so be careful that you do not overdo it. You may end up getting banned and all your work will be useless.



I have been going through the VEIL project and after doing my due diligence one thing i can say for sure is that this project has a lot more to offer asides privacy, security and anonymity, asides going through the tokenomics of the project, the team behind veil project are on course to set a serious pace in the cryptocurrency sphere
Thats all I'll say for now
Looking at this accounts post history also, I now suspect that these two accounts are working together (possibly owned by the same person).
Title: Re: The Emergence of Privacy Coins, Challenges & Solution Offered by Veil Technology
Post by: LogiC on April 15, 2019, 10:22:52 AM
 I Personally like veil and their project seems to be realistiv when you want a coin that has been inclined with mining or staking. Technology that has been used by their team is sufficient to run the whole platform. I guess they will have a bright future in altcoin ranks. I still noticed some minor flaws and some complained regarding it. But that is part of a project fixed some stuff that has been bugged. Still supporting veil until the end. #Veil
Title: Re: The Emergence of Privacy Coins, Challenges & Solution Offered by Veil Technology
Post by: dragononcrypto on April 15, 2019, 10:47:59 AM
I'm not sure if you guys are part of Veil's marketing campaign but I think the proper place to post topics on specific altcoins is here https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?board=16.0

Done.

An account created only to promote Veil. I think they are running a bounty so be careful that you do not overdo it. You may end up getting banned and all your work will be useless.

I have been going through the VEIL project and after doing my due diligence one thing i can say for sure is that this project has a lot more to offer asides privacy, security and anonymity, asides going through the tokenomics of the project, the team behind veil project are on course to set a serious pace in the cryptocurrency sphere
Thats all I'll say for now
Looking at this accounts post history also, I now suspect that these two accounts are working together (possibly owned by the same person).

I think you're right, I've already merged a handful of these topics together recently and it still looks like a mess. Veil project need to sort their bounty hunter(s) out before they end up getting the Spammer rank. This is a warning for anyone who doesn't want to achieve that label to stop name-dropping this project as a "new" topic of "discussion".
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: Jereh on April 17, 2019, 07:53:23 PM
 One thing I like about the blockchain is that in the bid to make it function maximally u the aim of bringing values down to users ,which in turn would encourage participation, new projects keep coming up with the view to improving upon the previous solutions proposed by these projects inorder to achieve the desired altimate result of mainstream adoption.
One of this challenges that seems to be hindering adoption rate is the security of the blockchain...which some other projects proposed to solve using some technologies.
Unfortunately , there are inherent weaknesses of some of the technologies .
Despite the commitment of these projects to re-create a blockchain where transactions would be highly anonymous , untraced and unlinked to the initiator(sender) of the transaction, there is still room for improvement of these technologies to achieve 100% annonymity on the blockchain.
Introducing veil, a privacy coin.
You may be wondering what veil has got to offer .
Veil would make privacy without compromise a reality. This it tend to achieve using some cutting edge technologies, some of which are zercoin protocol , dandelion and bulletproofs technology which is adopted to help reduce transaction sizes.  the Veil network will implement a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm to ensure maximum energy effectiveness and decentralization..
The zerocoin protocol, bulletproof ,dandelion etc combined would give the veil project an edge over other privacy coins.

Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: Jereh on April 21, 2019, 07:00:18 AM

To enjoy the blockchain technology , I think there must be a level of privacy enjoyable by users.
Privacy is a big deal nowadays.
Personally, I do not joke with my privacy that is why I am excited seeing that a privacy coin by the name veil has been developed with a view of providing a complete privacy of transactions on the blockchain.
Veil privacy coin is committed to ensuring that users on the blockchain get to enjoy it by elimintating the security risk associated with  ones transactioon history.
Veil seeks to leverage off the solutions previously proposed by other privacy coins such as Dash, Zcoin etc to provide privacy without compromise.
 Veil didn't conduct any  ICO or the coins  Pre-mine and  main net is  already  been launched.
This tells a lot about the commitment of the team members to ensuring a security risk- free blockchain.
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: Giletto on April 28, 2019, 06:24:05 AM
I do agree with the tittle of your article, Blockchain which Is an immutable distributed public ledger where cryptocurrency transactions can be held securely without a third party should be further developed by key stakeholders to not just hold and distribute transaction records but also more discrete about it. Discrete is the key word and the core reason why bitcoin was created from onset
Title: Re: Why Blockchain Must Maintain Your Privacy
Post by: Jereh on May 01, 2019, 05:32:19 PM

The various weaknesses of the present  privacy coins is a testament to the need for a privacy coin that would improve  upon the solutions proposed by these coins in order to meet the privacy demand of users .
Veil seeks to  takes privacy coins to a whole new level  by leveraging off the existing technology and making improvements on them to make the protocol effective ...which would quarantee privacy without compromise.