# This is Web3Privacy Now // ep01 - Stay Human - Channel: [Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress](https://streameth.org/ethereum-cypherpunk-congress) - Date: 2025-10-09 - Duration: 08:23 - Topics: web3, privacy, web3privacy now, blockchain, crypto, story of, values, cryptography, human rights, right, Education - Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-MywIUSJAykI - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywIUSJAykI ## Description Ep01: The importance to be a human in the internet age. This is the story of how it all began and the values ​​that drive us. Shooted during a W3PN planning reunion, we take a moment to remember together our journey. Enjoy! "This is Web3Privacy Now" is a docu-series that tells the story of Web3Privacy Now, presents the people and the talented minds that collaborate every day to its growth, the activities carried out and the goals achieved. Always work in progress, for a freer world for all. Join us and participate in the conversation. link: https://web3privacy.info/about https://x.com/web3privacy filmed & edited by BabyBit Production @BabyBitProd on X Music by Jensei @jensei_ on X ## Transcript I think what's important is that we privacy now begin as the reflection on what's happening in the global World there are many directions that are useless unimportant small uh comparing to Big challenges we have in life and privacy is one of the rare opportunities or one of the rare directions when you can find meaning [Music] in 2022 is during the summer a friend M sent me vacancy in logos called the head of activism and I was deeply surprised that within the crypto spere um someone is doing Grassroots uh organizing based on the traditional activist values that led to database I made in order to understand for myself who is doing what within the Privacy Market I remember the early days of him making GitHub making this amazing research my first contribution I would say it's like a personal support to good things that uh mol was doing because no one was doing that it was inspired by awesome privacy list that existed for years within the traditional markets and it grew to privacy dashboard as we know it today as an [Music] Explorer I've got to discover this uh GitHub repo around late 20122 early 2023 from then we continue to research and to collect information from the Privacy Market in web tree so the whole uh 2023 was was more about researching getting to know people attending [Applause] events important milestone for price now is eth bur of hakon where we planted the seeds of we price in our community I met at first three coer and other people who were the first core members of the team the second big milestone was I guess Summit in Prague that show an explicit need of privacy self-expression and Building Bridges between different generations of privacy [Applause] [Music] Advocates without being aware of web privacy now I was in the in the par Summit surrounded by cyer punks and privacy ideologists and I felt very happy there I felt like I I've met uh My Tribe to put it in that way soon etcc was supposed to happen and I got asked if I wanted to help with uh an event we were organizing there to occupy the [Music] park I really like the concept the idea of making illegal thing in a park uh occupying it literally that was something super freshh and enjoined the collective actually grow quite organically with people coming and going uh helping around events because the first thing we actually uh did was gathering people in real life to help each other understand how to improve the privacy as a human right in the web pre [Music] space it was nice to see that a lot of people that were in crypto 15 years ago were um appreciating a lot The Way We Were uh organizing events and uh doing research and we have got also to learn something very important which is that they are kind of scattered in different bubbles or niches by at the end we all here for the same goals so if we manage to make this ecosystem better and to build up Bridges and vocabularies for these people to understand each other and come together I think here is where we can really change society for the [Music] better we are a collective of humans that appreciate Humanity at the core it's very important to get together in person whilst maintaining the digital uh presence as [Music] well we're definitely not where we want to be at we're very far from that we're definitely not where privacy should be but with groups like web privacy now many more will follow the lead from what we're trying to portray we want a lot we have beautiful talented Incredible Minds board so yeah it's just a matter of time for us to be much more than we are [Music] now personally I Embrace joy and fun and humor that happens within our organization that can transform any challenge into playful exercise and can Elevate us all above the political social cultural differences and challenges and will'll create a room of a huge emotional relief because as we know privacy is sort of a tough game we're playing against many governments or institutional agencies and corporations that want to suppress our freedom but the same time we should care about our sanity and I think being playful being open being joyful is the way of countering the Doomsday scenario thinking that is so popular around not necessarily in this industry but within the global politics within the relationship in it therapeutic society and in that sense we can pave the way for many young people to follow us or to use our instruments because they would see the open structure that is welcoming everyone within all their diversity Spectrum to get the fruits uh not just from the privacy or free internet or a freedom in general but of what it is to be or to stay a human in the internet age [Music]