Nym and next Generation of Global Privacy with Harry Halpin & Jaya Klara Brekke

Nym – The Next Generation of Global Privacy

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The current lack of privacy on the internet exposes billions of people to mass surveillance and data breaches, undermining trust in digital services and stifling innovation. Nym is a mixnet and develops the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.

Nym’s CEO & Founder Harry Halpin, and CSO Jaya Klara Brekke chat about the threat mass surveillance has on society, what Nym sets out to do and take a deep dive into the architecture of the protocol.

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Topics discussed in the episode

--Harry and Jaya’s backgrounds and how they got into crypto

--Harry’s personal experience with surveillance

--Mass surveillance on the internet

--The rationale behind the cypherpunk manifesto “transparency for the powerful, privacy for the rest of us”

--The ‘general public’s’ attitude towards privacy

--The Nym infrastructure, purpose and benefits

--How Nym works with other applications

--How does incentivization work

--Harry’s relationship with Julian Assange