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Every Crowd Hides You Differently

Every Crowd Hides You Differently

From Bitcoin CoinJoin to zero-knowledge proofs, every serious approach to financial privacy bets on a different crowd to disappear into.

The Algebra of Trust

The Algebra of Trust

Anonymous commerce requires solving the trust problem, and the solution may be to treat trust itself as a quantifiable, tradeable commodity.

The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 19: Operational Security

The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 19: Operational Security

Operational security prevents adversaries from gathering compromising information. Threat modeling guides defense. Human factors are the weakest link. Perfect OPSEC is impossible.

The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 14: Anonymous Communication Networks

The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 14: Anonymous Communication Networks

The internet leaks metadata. VPNs help locally. Tor distributes trust through relays. Mixnets defeat global adversaries. Choose tools matching your threat model.

The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 11: Corporate Surveillance and Data Extraction

The Praxeology of Privacy ~ Chapter 11: Corporate Surveillance and Data Extraction

Corporate surveillance extracts behavioral data for prediction products. State and corporate surveillance are deeply entangled. Markets are responding to growing privacy demand.

Proving You Belong Without Saying Who You Are

Proving You Belong Without Saying Who You Are

Zero-knowledge proofs let Nostr users prove they're trusted without revealing their identity, enabling anonymous rate-limiting and reputation-gated relay access.

Disappear Into the Crowd: Wasabi's Hidden Payment Superpower

Disappear Into the Crowd: Wasabi's Hidden Payment Superpower

Three bash scripts to queue, cancel, and run Wasabi coinjoin payments from terminal - with smart denomination suggestions for maximum privacy.

Sifting Through the Archive: Private Set Membership for Blossom

Sifting Through the Archive: Private Set Membership for Blossom

Binary Fuse filters let Blossom clients privately check which files exist on a server - download a compact filter once, query locally with zero server load, and use delta lists for real-time accuracy.