Most Blockchains Start With Technology. Midnight Starts With Agency. đïž
There is a useful reason Midnight keeps talking about privacy differently from anonymity coins.
Its stated mission is broader than hiding transactions.
The project organizes that idea around three freedoms: association without restriction, commerce without permission and expression without censorship.
That puts it surprisingly close to the original values that made $BTC interesting in the first place.
The difference is the world blockchains operate in now.
People, businesses and autonomous agents need to interact with institutions, applications and rules without automatically handing every piece of their information to everyone involved.
Midnightâs answer is to let those participants decide what becomes public, what remains private and what can still be verified.
The cryptography is how that gets implemented.
The actual product thesis is agency.
And I think that distinction matters, because privacy is much easier to understand when it stops being about having something to hide and starts being about deciding what was anyone elseâs business in the first place.
#Privacy #Web3
There is a useful reason Midnight keeps talking about privacy differently from anonymity coins.
Its stated mission is broader than hiding transactions.
The project organizes that idea around three freedoms: association without restriction, commerce without permission and expression without censorship.
That puts it surprisingly close to the original values that made $BTC interesting in the first place.
The difference is the world blockchains operate in now.
People, businesses and autonomous agents need to interact with institutions, applications and rules without automatically handing every piece of their information to everyone involved.
Midnightâs answer is to let those participants decide what becomes public, what remains private and what can still be verified.
The cryptography is how that gets implemented.
The actual product thesis is agency.
And I think that distinction matters, because privacy is much easier to understand when it stops being about having something to hide and starts being about deciding what was anyone elseâs business in the first place.
#Privacy #Web3
