Mixnets, Activism and Privacy with Nym’s Harry Halpin

This week, https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose (Anna) chats with https://twitter.com/harryhalpin (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, https://zeroknowledge.fm/125/ (Zero Knowledge Episode 125) Harry’s talk at the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Kqwk4lTJ0&list=PLj80z0cJm8QGNPbPJ2adQhN5W890O7YMr&index=16 (ZKV event on Cosmos privacy) Nym https://nymtech.net/nym-whitepaper.pdf (Whitepaper) The latest Gitcoin CLR matching round is live, so be sure to check out Zero Knowledge Podcast’s https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast (page) and use it to make a powerful contribution to the show! Thank you for the previous support, which directly contributed to the launch of the new zeroknowledge.fm website and community. Thank you to our sponsor, https://minaprotocol.com (Mina Protocol)! Mina is a layer-one protocol working to connect crypto to the real world. This means developers can leverage private, verified, real world data from any website to build decentralized apps. Mina’s decentralized apps, called Snapps, also allow users to access on-chain services without sacrificing personal data privacy. Now that Mina’s mainnet is live, the ecosystem is growing fast. Join the community and find out more by visiting https://minaprotocol.com (minaprotocol.com)! If you like what we do: Subscribe to our https://zeroknowledge.substack.com/ (podcast newsletter) to not miss any event! Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM (Telegram) Catch us on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g (Youtube) Read up on the https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast (r/ZKPodcast subreddit) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A (https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A) Support our https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2 (Gitcoin Grant) Support us on the https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge (ZKPatreon) Donate through https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38 (coinbase.commerce)