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The results of “Privacy Proof” annual awards are here. Second patient - “Key news and events of the year” category.
Each year brings mix of different news from cryptography advancement to dev imprisonment. 2024 been a year of positive signals (Assange - free, Tornado Cash positive ruling), and negative implications (continues attack on end-to-end-encryption, massive personal data breaches).
“Privacy Proof” is an annual awards facilitated by the Web3Privacy now collective. It aims to feature key projects, news, innovations & doxxers of the market selected by 90+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from Vitalik Buterin to Zooko behind the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun, Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.
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Tornado positive ruling ensuring that privacy development is less of a crime, especially within the “smart contract development” realm.
important note: Roman Storm still need your support.
Julian Assange has been released from prison.
Notable mentions
FBI tells people to use encrypted apps instead of SMS
TEE GPUs becoming viable faster than initially thought
The attacks on encryption from EU governments and others
Exiled Russian Opposition Leader Launches Blockchain-Based Referendum
Age verification (i.e. mandatory doxxing) laws passing in the US and Europe
Apple native integration of ChatGPT
Anti-crypto army losing US elections
Buenos Aires adopts verifiable credentials
NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
E2EE enabled by Signal Protocol finally rolled out
Women in Web3 Privacy established
Multiple Monero Exchange delistings
Regulatory Actions Against Worldcoin
National Public Data Breach -2.9 billion records were compromised
US recommendation to use end to end encryption
Midnight Blizzard attack on Microsoft
Dawn of the new zk era
Impending flourishing of agorist markets
Namada mainnet
Penumbra mainnet
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