Privacy, Security, Connectivity. Can We Have It All?

Just successful clip for CoinDesk’s Privacy Week, this occurrence takes a heavy dive into the ideals, tools and aboriginal of privateness and crypto, addressing each facets of privateness successful Web 3.

Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are 2 guests acquainted with not conscionable the privateness pitfalls of today’s internet, but the imaginable solutions disposable to support users. Often recognized arsenic the begetter of integer currency, David Chaum has had an accomplished vocation successful privacy-focused integer tools, archetypal arsenic the laminitis of DigiCash and present with his caller unafraid messaging level xx messenger. Alongside Chaum is Tor Bair, the laminitis of Secret Foundation, 1 of the halfway organizations supporting the private-by-default blockchain Secret Network.

Though astir radical recognize that online privateness is simply a problem, the bulk look consenting to commercialized privateness for convenience and connectivity. As a result, the privateness concerns successful Web 2 person go staggeringly large, arsenic displayed successful the countless information entree hacks, scandals similar Cambridge Analytica and Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations, among others.

Within the crypto industry, the conception of transparency is highly valued, but wherever is the balancing constituent betwixt that transparency and privacy? Creating a unafraid web is important, but information is often straight tied with identity. Cryptographers person devised ways to abstracted the two, but volition these methodologies go pervasive successful Web 3?

This occurrence was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and further accumulation enactment by Eleanor Pahl. Our taxable opus is “Shepard.”