AbstractAlmost every time we sit down to write a post about a new development — whether for ourselves or future users — we begin with some variation of the same phrase: “Privacy matters,” “We care about privacy,” “Everyone deserves privacy.” And then we move on—to new features, roadmap updates, technical details. The goal of this short essay is to pause on that first, seemingly obvious statement. To look at it again. To reconstruct what it means in the context of blockchain, and then ask what...