Week in the Privacy News - 12/2024

What's crackin' @everyone

We’ve got a lot of personal updates to spill this week!

Fresh off an incredible event in Rome at an underground venue, where we hosted talks from Denis Roio, Arturo Filasto, Luca Lezzerini, Andrea Togni, Emanuele Russo and Marco Castignoli (pss, videos dropping soon). We capped off the evening in true Web3Privacy community style - deep talks, happy vibes and and beer flowing till the wee hours.

On top of that, we’re excited to announce that we sponsored a bounty at ETHRome. We will feature Bounty winners next Monday.

And, in case you missed it, we also launched the Privacy Builder Pack, lovingly crafted by Jensei to give builders in the space the tools they need to get started.

And now for the nitty gritty...

• DarkFi Squad "World's strongest anonymous chat": DarkIRC UI Release: Pre-Alpha Unstable

• Rotki Released 1.35.0 - Culmen

• Enclave Introducing: Encrypted Execution Environments

• The LunarDAO Improvement Proposal supporting DarkFi research & development

• Labyrinth September Update

• Railgun Introducing Shieldy & The Brain

• How to improve your privacy with Dappnode Crash Course

• EFF Age Verification Laws Will Hurt More Than They Help

• A 5 Step Guide to Make Ethereum—and Crypto—Cypherpunk Again Dyne

• A Read "Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy" by Gabriella Coleman. Recommended by our community members Ann Brody and Mykola

• Wired: Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging

• Edward Snowden - The Next Threat to Speech TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024

• The Birth of Chainalysis: Building the First Blockchain Analytics Company Chainalysis Podcast

• Enabling Non-Profits & Giving New Projects Their First Break Gitcoin X Space

(new/changes in bold)

• Oct 8, zkSummit Lisbon

• Oct 9-10, Bitcoin Amsterdam

• Oct 17-19,ETHSofia Conference & Hackathon

• Nov 7-9, DeFi Security Summit Bangkok

• Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok

• Nov 11, Parallel Society Congress Bangkok

• Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok

Pick a date to be offline → Let friends and family know you’ll be offline, or better yet, invite them to join you! For all of us smitten with privacy, going offline is the sweetest act of devotion. Alternatively, get one of those bad boys.

Until next week - and let's make privacy sexy again.