The current lack of privacy on the internet exposes billions of people to mass surveillance and data breaches, undermining trust in digital services and stifling innovation. Nym is a mixnet and develops the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.
We were joined by Nym’s CEO & Founder Harry Halpin, and CSO Jaya Klara Brekke, to chat about the threat mass surveillance has on society, what Nym sets out to do and take a deep dive into the architecture of the protocol.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Harry and Jaya’s backgrounds and how they got into crypto
- Harry’s personal experience with surveillance
- Mass surveillance on the internet
- The rationale behind the cypherpunk manifesto “transparency for the powerful, privacy for the rest of us”
- The ‘general public’s’ attitude towards privacy
- The Nym infrastructure, purpose and benefits
- How Nym works with other applications
- How does incentivization work
- Harry’s relationship with Julian Assange
Episode links:
- “Privacy for end users, transparency for the infrastructure” blog post
- Ep 339 – What Julian Assange Represents to the Crypto Movement
- Nym website
- Main Telegram
- Node Setup Help Chat
- GitHub
- Documentation
- YouTube
- Harry on Twitter
- Jaya on Twitter
- Nym on Twitter
Sponsors:
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