In the same spirit, other VPNs like Mullvad have introduced programs like DAITA (Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis), which seeks to add “distortion” to its VPN network. Scrambling the codesWhether it’s defending people against the assassinations in tomorrow’s drone wars or securing their onchain transactions, new anonymity networks are needed to scramble the codes of what makes all of us targetable: the metadata our online lives leave in their wake.
It offers pseudonymity, the ability to hold tokens in a wallet with a chosen name. Recent: How to tokenize real-world assets on BitcoinHarry Halpin and Ania Piotrowska have diagnosed the situation:“[T]he public nature of Bitcoin’s ledger of transactions [...] means anyone can observe the flow of coins.[P]seudonymous addresses do not provide any meaningful level of anonymity, since anyone can harvest the counterparty addresses of any given transaction and reconstruct the chain of transactions.”As all chain transactions are public, anyone running a full node can have a panoptic view of chain activity.
Further, metadata like IP addresses attached to pseudonymous wallets can be used to identify people’s locations and identities if tracking technologies are sophisticated enough. This is the core problem of metadata surveillance in blockchain economics: Surveillance systems can effectively de-anonymize our financial traffic by any capable party.
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