Blockchain Privacy: Mixers Fail?
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Explore the limitations of the mixer paradigm for blockchain privacy. We discuss common misconceptions about privacy and how it doesn't work like a simple 'mixer'. Learn why your assumptions about privacy might be wrong and discover a new perspective on protecting your assets on the blockchain. #BlockchainPrivacy #BlockchainPrivacy #Privacy #Cryptocurrency #MixerParadigm #BlockchainSecurity #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #DigitalAssets #FinancialPrivacy #PrivacyTech
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there's a super common concept on the part of people when they think about privacy which is they most people assume that privacy works like what we call a mixer that like they let me explain what that I mean by that they assume that you're going to start with your asset over here where your enemy can see it either because it's in a bank and your enemy has access to the bank or it's on a blockchain and it's a transparent blockchain or whatever and what most people think they want is I want to take
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this and do something to it to make it private and then move on after I've done the thing which is what I tend to think of as the mixer Paradigm the thing in the middle is a mixer that's going to add privacy or privatize or or break the link between the first step and the third you can't add privacy in the middle step because privacy is what you lose when information leaks