The crypto-focused investment arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz argued that modern cryptographic techniques, such as zero-knowledge proofs, can protect user privacy and still allow law enforcement to crack down on bad actors.
In a report on Tuesday, a16z Crypto policy partner Aiden Slaven and regulatory counsel David Sverdlov data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/6-myths-privacy-blockchains/” rel=”https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/6-myths-privacy-blockchains/” target=”https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/6-myths-privacy-blockchains/” title=”https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/6-myths-privacy-blockchains/”>said that data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/zero-knowledge-proofs-explained” rel=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/zero-knowledge-proofs-explained” target=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/zero-knowledge-proofs-explained” title=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/zero-knowledge-proofs-explained”>ZK-proofs, which verify the authenticity of data without disclosing any detailed private information, have the “greatest potential” by showing the origin of funds, but without publicly revealing…

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