A bit of context: Web3Privacy Now hosted a weekend Hackathon during Berlin Blockchain Week in June (2025, for the ones lost in time and space). This is where the real privacy people gathered up, - from devs emerging from repo trenches, to activists and artists carrying a Goethe book and talking about ethics of network states. It was all authenticity: with a bonfire, and even a homemade BBQ (which almost started a fire, but Grill Master and the Iron Cast Lady had it covered; started it as well, but that's beside the point).

As we are siblings with Web3Privacy Now, @winprivacy integrated Safe Events Initiative there.

What is Safe Events? It's one of our biggest non-profit initiatives, where we aim to culturally curate events, from vibes to harassment handling. "Safety" means many things, from physical safety to emotional and spiritual safety, where you feel comfortable to express, to hear, to see and be seen, to nourish new ideas, and to see diverse perspectives. It's the core of humanity, and should be at the core of privacy and web3 events.

All our activations were meant to stimulate conversation, from an interactive installation, DIY station, anonymous PFP station, complaint box, or even making matcha (and getting people hooked on it 🙂)

We want to make privacy a communal experience and, most importantly, a fun one.

The only space that was not meant for conversations, was a blanket fort we built, for humans to have a nap, read, or take an overstimulation break in.

This almost sounds like an oxymoron. In order for people to start caring about privacy and start understanding why their trans friend wants to chat on signal instead of Whatsapp, we need to start making privacy digestable.

So, we asked Nats to develop a code which exposes when surveillance identifies you. Visually, with no fluff or technical jargon. We need to allow everyone, not just privacy fans, to understand and feel it. We set up a webcam and a screen, and the code highlighted when you are being identified. Turns out, it can identify you very easily. We also left out some props that people could play around with and see when the surveillance struggled more. Main learnings:

• Pirates with one eye are safer than normies

• Wearing fun makeup is a start to being more anonymous

• A hat is not enough, but angles are also important!

You can learn more about how to navigate the age of surveillance and how to be a glitch, through Web3Privacy academy course.

We were tired of people talking about privacy and not offering ideas about how to stay private and still be included modern digital culture.

Did you know that having the same profile picture on all social media makes it easier for ai to piece an accurate digital identity (otherwise called digital double) for you? This can be your face, an illustration of you, or your cat, but same PFP on all your platforms means easier cross-platform identification.

Furthermore, if this profile picture is of your face, the higher the chances that platforms are collecting biometric data from these pictures. Likely selling it.

To stimulate conversation about this topic, we prepared an anonymous PFP station, where people could take pictures while covering their eyes with replacement images. We remained anonymous while still having a fun creative experience.

A week before our event we had someone in our chat bring up the issue of merch - it's boring, and most of the time in the standard male silhouette.

So, we brought paints, markers, stickers, pins, stencils and allowed people to transform merch to whatever they wanted. Additionally, it was a spot where people could relax for a little bit, stimulate their creativity and have meaningful conversations the way you would with your group of friends on a Saturday. We had a professional artist make custom designs in exchange for donations, and there were even some privacy transformed shoes!

We asked people to submit anonymous complaints on paper using invisible pens (your friend on your right couldn’t even see what you were writing). 

Have you ever felt uncomfortable about something someone said on a conference? Have you felt isolated or unsafe?

These were some of the submissions. And those weren’t even the most shocking… Beyond facilitating an outlet for people to let things out (btw, not just women submitted!), we also had a community conversation about the submissions. That was where the real beauty shined. 

We chatted, built trust, felt heard, plays devil's advocate and saw how people started opening up and discussing these once taboo topics. What was even more empowering, was the aftermath. During our cypherpunk rave the conversations continued, and people thought of more situations that they would like to raise and talk about. Things they thought were “normal”, - things they didn’t want to share initially.

Through the conversation circles they felt safe to bring things up and to build a better understanding. That was the real win.

We want to thank everyone that contributed and made this experience so much fun:

Araya, Zuza, Migle and Alina for organizing, Kelly, Leah, Alisa and Hana for helping so much and bringing their light into our weekend.

If you'd like to contribute or tune in, here are some helpful links:

Next onboarding call

Next community call

TG Community

Donate winprivacy.eth
0x7e4B01a2Eba8c18cfEBBF6AffE48f19D25cebf33

For love letters and requesting our marketing agency deck: womeninweb3privacy@proton.me

A bit of context: Web3Privacy Now hosted a weekend Hackathon during Berlin Blockchain Week in June (2025, for the ones lost in time and space). This is where the real privacy people gathered up, - from devs emerging from repo trenches, to activists and artists carrying a Goethe book and talking about ethics of network states. It was all authenticity: with a bonfire, and even a homemade BBQ (which almost started a fire, but Grill Master and the Iron Cast Lady had it covered; started it as well, but that's beside the point).

As we are siblings with Web3Privacy Now, @winprivacy integrated Safe Events Initiative there.

What is Safe Events? It's one of our biggest non-profit initiatives, where we aim to culturally curate events, from vibes to harassment handling. "Safety" means many things, from physical safety to emotional and spiritual safety, where you feel comfortable to express, to hear, to see and be seen, to nourish new ideas, and to see diverse perspectives. It's the core of humanity, and should be at the core of privacy and web3 events.

All our activations were meant to stimulate conversation, from an interactive installation, DIY station, anonymous PFP station, complaint box, or even making matcha (and getting people hooked on it 🙂)

We want to make privacy a communal experience and, most importantly, a fun one.

The only space that was not meant for conversations, was a blanket fort we built, for humans to have a nap, read, or take an overstimulation break in.

This almost sounds like an oxymoron. In order for people to start caring about privacy and start understanding why their trans friend wants to chat on signal instead of Whatsapp, we need to start making privacy digestable.

So, we asked Nats to develop a code which exposes when surveillance identifies you. Visually, with no fluff or technical jargon. We need to allow everyone, not just privacy fans, to understand and feel it. We set up a webcam and a screen, and the code highlighted when you are being identified. Turns out, it can identify you very easily. We also left out some props that people could play around with and see when the surveillance struggled more. Main learnings:

• Pirates with one eye are safer than normies

• Wearing fun makeup is a start to being more anonymous

• A hat is not enough, but angles are also important!

You can learn more about how to navigate the age of surveillance and how to be a glitch, through Web3Privacy academy course.

We were tired of people talking about privacy and not offering ideas about how to stay private and still be included modern digital culture.

Did you know that having the same profile picture on all social media makes it easier for ai to piece an accurate digital identity (otherwise called digital double) for you? This can be your face, an illustration of you, or your cat, but same PFP on all your platforms means easier cross-platform identification.

Furthermore, if this profile picture is of your face, the higher the chances that platforms are collecting biometric data from these pictures. Likely selling it.

To stimulate conversation about this topic, we prepared an anonymous PFP station, where people could take pictures while covering their eyes with replacement images. We remained anonymous while still having a fun creative experience.

A week before our event we had someone in our chat bring up the issue of merch - it's boring, and most of the time in the standard male silhouette.

So, we brought paints, markers, stickers, pins, stencils and allowed people to transform merch to whatever they wanted. Additionally, it was a spot where people could relax for a little bit, stimulate their creativity and have meaningful conversations the way you would with your group of friends on a Saturday. We had a professional artist make custom designs in exchange for donations, and there were even some privacy transformed shoes!

We asked people to submit anonymous complaints on paper using invisible pens (your friend on your right couldn’t even see what you were writing). 

Have you ever felt uncomfortable about something someone said on a conference? Have you felt isolated or unsafe?

These were some of the submissions. And those weren’t even the most shocking… Beyond facilitating an outlet for people to let things out (btw, not just women submitted!), we also had a community conversation about the submissions. That was where the real beauty shined. 

We chatted, built trust, felt heard, plays devil's advocate and saw how people started opening up and discussing these once taboo topics. What was even more empowering, was the aftermath. During our cypherpunk rave the conversations continued, and people thought of more situations that they would like to raise and talk about. Things they thought were “normal”, - things they didn’t want to share initially.

Through the conversation circles they felt safe to bring things up and to build a better understanding. That was the real win.

We want to thank everyone that contributed and made this experience so much fun:

Araya, Zuza, Migle and Alina for organizing, Kelly, Leah, Alisa and Hana for helping so much and bringing their light into our weekend.

If you'd like to contribute or tune in, here are some helpful links:

Next onboarding call

Next community call

TG Community

Donate winprivacy.eth
0x7e4B01a2Eba8c18cfEBBF6AffE48f19D25cebf33

For love letters and requesting our marketing agency deck: womeninweb3privacy@proton.me