Making Blockchain Anarchist Again: NymVPN
Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 11:41 AM · 26:49
Distracted by short-term financial gain, humanity is finding itself sleep-walking into a universal surveillance state aiming to monitor and control our every action via omnipresent AI technologies. How to fight back? What we at Nym are doing is returning to the anarchist roots of blockchain by enabling two crucial technologies pioneered by the cypherpunks: mixnets for anonymous internet access and anonymous credentials for private payments that give users control over their identity.
Nym
CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a startup building a decentralized mixnet to end mass surveillance. Formerly a research Scientist at MIT and Inria de Paris, where I led the standardization of the Web Cryptography API across all browsers. Postdoctoral studies under Bernard Stiegler in the philosophy of technology. Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and also teaches cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut.
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