Author: odinn 2015-03-23 05:50:32
Published on: 2015-03-23T05:50:32+00:00
Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis firm, may be violating Swiss laws according to a post on a bitcoin forum. While analyzing publicly available information is legal, surveillance is not. There are legal processes available to sue corporations like Chainalysis that collect information in ways that violate countries' laws. The community has called for firms like Chainalysis to cease operations before facing legal penalties. Developers should also work towards giving users an anonymity option and fixing nodes that do not relay transactions.The provided context appears to be a PGP signature used to verify the authenticity of a message. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, which is a data encryption and decryption program commonly used for securing emails and other forms of electronic communication. Both the sender and receiver must have a PGP key pair consisting of a private key and a public key to use PGP. The private key is kept secret by the owner, while the public key is shared with others to allow them to encrypt messages that can only be decrypted with the private key.
Updated on: 2023-06-09T18:35:17.583250+00:00