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Why I support privacy

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Special thanks to Balvi volunteers, Paul Dylan-Ennis, pcaversaccio, vectorized, Bruce Xu and Luozhu Zhang for discussion and feedback. Recently, I have been increasingly focusing on improving the state of privacy in the Ethereum ecosystem. Privacy is an important guarantor of decentralization: whoever has the information has the power, ergo we need to avoid centralized control over information. When people in the real world express concern about centrally operated technical infrastructure, the concern is sometimes about operators changing the rules unexpectedly or deplatforming users, but just as often, it's about data collection. While the cryptocurrency space has its origins in projects like Chaumian Ecash, which put the preservation of digital financial privacy front and center, it has more recently undervalued privacy for what is ultimately a bad reason: before ZK-SNARKs, we had no way to offer privacy in a decentralized way, and so we downplayed it, instead focusing exclusively on

Dark Mode Toggle Why I support privacy 2025 Apr 14 See all posts Why I support privacy Special thanks to Balvi volunteers, Paul Dylan-Ennis, pcaversaccio, vectorized, Bruce Xu and Luozhu Zhang for discussion and feedback. Recently, I have been increasingly focusing on improving the state of privacy in the Ethereum ecosystem. Privacy is an important guarantor of decentralization : whoever has the information has the power, ergo we need to avoid centralized control over information. When people in the real world express concern about centrally operated technical infrastructure, the concern is so

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