Introducing CoinDesk’s Privacy Week

Introducing CoinDesk’s Privacy Week
Cryptocurrency was supposed to be about privacy. It’s right there in the prefix “crypto” (meaning “hidden” or “secret”), a nickname the technology shares with cryptography, the discipline that spawned it.“We have to trust [banks] with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts,” Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto wrote in 2009, explaining the impetus to create a new, peer-to-peer monetary system.Yet 13 years later, while BTC and its various knockoffs and descendants have become a $2 trillion asset class, privacy remains hard to come by, either for cryptocurrency users or everyday people.Corporations and governments continue to collect…