This week, Anna chats with Harry Halpin, the CEO of the Nym project, about a variety of topics related to privacy, politics and the need to build censorship-resistant systems. Harry talks about his early involvement in cryptography and his changing perspectives on capitalism as a tool for good. He shares how Nym aims to protect blockchain transactions from network-based deanonymization attacks.

Here are a few links mentioned in this episode:

Mixnets and privacy technology with Claudia Diaz from Nym, Zero Knowledge Episode 125
Harry’s talk at the ZKV event on Cosmos privacy
Nym Whitepaper

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Episode 196: Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s Harry Halpin 01:17:49 Share

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Episode 196: Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s Harry Halpin