a16z pushing Privacy narrative so hard. The most interesting stuff in the article is
• Privacy blockchains have much bigger user lock-in effect compared to Public blockchains, since the privacy will be leaked on bridging process between Private <> Private or Private <> Public
• Centralized encryption is vulnerable against government intervention. Decentralized encryption without central server is crucial for privacy messaging
• Finance & Healthcare handle the sensitive information, which requires privacy blockchain or infrastructure
Quite many people (not billions, but millions) would use decentralized privacy messaging protocol with network management cost we guess.
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