Welcome to the historical debut - the first edition (#1) of Week In The Privacy News.
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Every week - 1 curated round-up of the most important news related to privacy in the Web3. Freedom, security and decentralisation topics as a bonus.
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Week in the Privacy News: new weekly summary of the most important news from ecosystem
Pavol Lupták: Brave is not a true privacy-oriented browser
Zac Williamson: thread about visions of a dystopian future when we fail
Wired: experience with Passkeys
Logos, Nomos, Waku, Codex, Status and others now federated under the Institute of Free Technology
Binance Will Delist XMR on 2024-02-20 (src)
Binance delisting sparks privacy concerns: Financial Times article on Monero delisting
Brave Nightly support Zcash in their integrated wallet (only unshielded transactions for now)
WalletConnect launches Web3Modal Analytics, showing that they doesn't mind tracking own users
Session team announced upcoming upgrade from Oxen Network to Session Network
Skiff was acquired by Notion and will wind down its services in 6 months (src)
Brume Wallet v0.5: UI enhancements, faster startup, cleaner onboarding
War on privacy in Web3?: with Zach Williamson, CEO at Aztec Protocol
Function of privacy in DeFi: @robbie_rollup and Lou Waroo from Houdini Swap, crosschain DEX and liquidity agreggator
Drama is the Prime Indicator of Decentralisation: with Dr. Nick Almond from Factory DAO (src)
DAO Privacy: X space with Gnosis Guild, Safe, Shutter Network, ShapeShift & Fractal (src)
Defunkt: The co-founder and former CEO of GitHub has been banned from GitHub (without explanation) (src)
Citrea: Bitcoin's first ZK Rollup (src)
Liberation Travel Hacks 02/2024 from Liberation Travel (subscribe)
Canada moves to ban Flipper Zero over car hacking fears (src)
Feb 20, Binance delisting Monero
Apr 10, zkSummit (Athens) conference
Apr 12-14, ETHDam hackathon
May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon
May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference
Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon
Jun 19-26, Web3Privacy Now Hackathon (Bled)
Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference
Oct, ETHBrno hackathon
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