Privacy isn’t just about being safe and keeping our data secure, its also a deeply fundamental aspect of being human. The unconscious pressures from being

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“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t

“Although there was never complete agreement on any one thing, this was an open forum where personal privacy and personal liberty were ultimately placed above

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“The dissent did not come in the form of a parchment scrawled with a feathery pen or an assembly of diplomats, but in the form

“Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the

“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world… In other words,

“The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. This is the digital equivalent of the Chicago

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