Privacy Podcast

What happened to the original promise of a free, decentralized internet? And can the cypherpunk movement help reclaim it? On this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Mykola Siusko , founder of Web3 Privacy Now and organizer of Cypherpunk Congress , to explore the future of digital privacy, decentralization, and the growing movement to put freedom back at the center of...

Financial privacy and regulatory compliance have long been treated as competing priorities. But what if regulators could trace suspicious transactions without creating a system of permanent financial surveillance? In this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller welcomes François-Xavier Wicht, known as FX, a PhD researcher at the University of Bern in Switzerland, to explore a new crypto...

Zcash has become one of crypto’s standout assets, putting privacy back at the center of the market conversation. What’s driving all the interest in Zcash, a project that looked to be fading into obscurity two years ago? On this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Ashton Addison , founder and host of Crypto Coin Show , to unpack what’s behind Zcash’s remarkable run and...

Privacy on the blockchain is one thing. But what about everything that happens before and after a transaction? On this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Dr. Corey Petty , Chief Evangelist at Logos , to explore why true digital privacy may require protecting far more than the contents of an individual transaction. Logos grew out of the Ethereum ecosystem with an ambi...

Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story shows a community coming together around new monetary ideas. It began as a five-minute film about bitcoin in Costa Rica. It became a full-length documentary called Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story . In this week’s episode of of Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller speaks with Paul Keating , one of the creators of the documentary about the people and ideas...

As financial institutions move more activity on-chain, privacy and interoperability are becoming critical to the future of blockchain adoption. In this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Igor Mandrigin, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gateway , to discuss the evolution of Ethereum infrastructure, institutional adoption, and why modern privacy technology co...

As stablecoins become a core part of the global financial system, one critical question remains: How do we protect privacy without sacrificing security or compliance? In this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller welcomes Yaya Fanusie , Chief Policy Officer at Aleo and former CIA counterterrorism analyst, for a timely discussion on the future of blockchain privacy. Yaya shares how his...

"In the age of AI, privacy is the foundation of human autonomy," says Sudo. On this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Sudo , Executive Director of SovRight (the nonprofit successor to the Electric Coin Company), to discuss privacy in the age of AI.  Sudo, part of the flourishing Zcash community, argues the battle isn’t just about protecting people’s data from survei...

What if using blockchain was as simple as chatting with AI? In this episode of Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Akshit Ostwal , Co Founder of Epoch Protocol, to explore how intents-based infrastructure is transforming the way people interact with blockchain networks (including privacy networks!) and why it could become the missing layer that finally takes crypto mainstream. Akshi...

What happens when privacy, programmable money, and artificial intelligence collide? In this episode of Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Gordon Liao , Chief Economist and Head of Research at Circle, to explore how stablecoins are reshaping global finance, and why privacy is becoming essential for institutional blockchain adoption. Drawing on his experience at the Federal Reserve,...

As blockchain technology moves beyond speculation and into mainstream financial infrastructure, one question continues to shape the future of digital assets:    Can privacy and compliance coexist? In this episode of the Privacy Podcast , Ben Schiller sits down with Nikhil Raghuveera , Co-Founder and CEO of Predicate, to explore how programmable compliance is reshaping on chain finance without sacr...

As institutions move on-chain and privacy becomes a growing concern, zero-knowledge technology is emerging as a critical building block for the next generation of the internet. This week on Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Eli Ben-Sasson , CEO and Co-Founder of StarkWare , mathematician, entrepreneur, and one of the pioneers behind zero-knowledge technology. Eli, one of the found...

TRM Labs researcher Liam Glennon joins Ben Schiller to explore why privacy is becoming a critical feature for institutional crypto adoption, and how the industry is working to balance confidentiality, security, and regulatory compliance. In this episode of Privacy Podcast, host Ben Schiller sits down with Liam Glennon, researcher and analyst at TRM Labs, to discuss the findings from his latest rep...

Can privacy and compliance finally coexist on blockchain networks? On this episode of The Privacy Podcast, Ben Schiller speaks with Muthu [ Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam ], CEO and co-founder of Ligero and professor at Georgetown University, about the next evolution of zero knowledge technology and why privacy infrastructure is moving from niche cryptography research into mainstream interne...

Inside the race to rebuild blockchain before transparency becomes a liability. Crypto was supposed to protect users. Instead, it may have accidentally exposed them. In this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Azeem Khan and Bobbin Threadbare , co-founders of Miden, to unpack a hard truth: most blockchains today are not private, and that’s a massive problem. What many...

Why the future of the internet depends on owning your data and why today’s systems are already failing What if your identity didn’t belong to Big Tech… or even the government? What if it actually belonged to you? In this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller talks with Wayne Chang , Founder of Spruce ID, to explore one of the most overlooked problems in tech today: identity. From logg...

Inside the shift from crypto fear to enterprise adoption and why privacy is becoming the backbone of digital commerce For years, privacy in crypto lived in the shadows, debated, misunderstood, and often avoided by institutions afraid of regulatory fallout. That changed fast. In this episode of The Privacy Podcast , host Ben Schiller sits down with Paul Brody , the founder of Nightfall Networks and...

Inside the battle between absolute privacy and real-world adoption and why zero-knowledge tech may redefine the internet. Privacy has always been framed as a binary: total anonymity or full transparency. But what if that framing is wrong? In the debut episode of The Privacy Podcast by Miden , host Ben Schiller sits down with Evin McMullen to unpack one of the most urgent debates shaping the future...

Privacy is not just a feature of blockchain. It is the foundation of what comes next. In this intro to the show, Ben Schiller , Head of Communications at Miden and former CoinDesk journalist, shares why privacy is the missing layer of the internet and the key to real blockchain adoption. From fixing the surveillance-driven internet model to enabling institutions and enterprises to operate securely...