Balancing privacy and anonymity has security consequences Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. — Eric Hughes, The Cypherpunk Manifesto Unchained Capital offers collaborative custody: a...
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Large exchanges and financial services providers such as Unchained Capital rely on industry best practices such as 100% cold-storage, multisig, and multi-factor identity verification. Unfortunately, it’s been challenging for individuals...
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We examine the history and future of dust: containers (UTXOs) of bitcoin that cost more to spend in fees than they hold. The amount of dust in the blockchain is...
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In crypto-backed lending, the biggest concerns for borrowers/lenders is how Bitcoin or Ethereum collateral is secured, especially the counterparty risk and centralization when trusting a single-institution. To reduce these risks,...
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Unchained Capital does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied...
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There are many stories of people losing BTC in large amounts - especially in the early days - when BTC wasn’t worth much, and was easily forgotten on an old hard-drive, USB...
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Bitcoin uses a curious accounting structure called a UTXO — an Unspent Transaction Output. All UTXOs are timestamped by the transaction/block in which they were created. Since all bitcoin in existence is contained...
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JG Ballard’s novel Concrete Island, published in 1974, presented one of the most vivid dystopian scenarios in modern fiction, more compelling because its premise had basically already arrived: A motorist loses...
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Unchained Capital is pleased to announce that after receiving our California Finance Lender’s License earlier this month, we are now offering crypto-secured loans to consumers and businesses in California. We’ve...
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The market cap of cryptocurrencies dropped almost 50% from ~$820B to ~$420B in the last month. This is not the first time cryptocurrencies have experienced such significant losses (though it’s...
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