devcon 5 / how scaling impacts privacy
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How scaling impacts privacy
Duration: 00:45:47
Speaker: Liz Steininger
Type: Panel
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Invalid Date
This will be a presentation or panel discussing the positive and negative privacy consequences of scaling to mainstream use. By considering the data stored on blockchains, now, we can speculate about the use of it in the future and how it can be analyzed at scale. We will explore specific data types and common use cases, including data mining. The goal of this session is to help the community know how privacy will be impacted when cryptocurrency reaches mainstream use and explore the societal consequences of personal data collection and decentralization of systems.
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