Zooko: The Financial Industry Is Demanding Privacy for Blockchains
Although one may assume that the demand for privacy in Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems is coming from crypto-anarchists and libertarians, the reality is that a huge push for concealing transactions on the blockchain is coming from the traditional financial industry. During a recent cryptocurrency event at the Cato Institute, Zcash CEO and....
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