Privacy

6 posts

The internet has been an incredible force of economic and personal freedom - but at the same time, the surveillance based economic model of the internet offers a profound threat to one of the most important components of liberty, privacy. Read posts in this category to learn more about about privacy and survelliance, on and off chain.

CBDCs: Sleepwalking to Tyranny

In this Unbounded Thinking post, our James Kingston dissects the main possible implementations of a Central Bank Digital Currency and concludes that CBDCs are in equal part dangerous and dispensable.

8 min read

Oh B.O.I., oh B.O.I.

FinCEN's new Beneficial Ownership Information database for U.S. companies is an unprecedented dragnet of personally identifiable information, ensnaring millions of individuals who own U.S. companies.

16 min read

Nominees: The VPN for Companies

Nominees are widely used and widely misunderstood. In this post, we talk about their use and clear up some commonly held misconceptions about Nominee Directors and Nominee Shareholders.

12 min read

Part II - Have Money, Will Apply Travel Rule: The Death Knell for Unhosted Wallets

In this second part, we analyze the travel rule as part of the proposed Transfer of Funds Directive (TFR) and its practical implications.

4 min read

Part III - Sleepwalking into Mass Surveillance: Europe’s Last Chance to Be the Beacon of Privacy and Innovation

In this last part, we summarize the key arguments brought by the crypto industry against the proposed new crypto regime in Europe and add some arguments of our own. We conclude with a call to action.

14 min read

Money Without Memory: Why Censorship Resistance and Financial Privacy Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

For crypto currencies to become global, state-free money, we have to win the fight against increasing financial deanonymization, even if we have nothing to hide.

8 min read

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