On the night of July 22nd, 2024, and the following morning, rumors circulated on X (formerly Twitter) that Biden was under hospice care and had died. This turned out to be completely false. However, I wondered who was making or losing money during this period of wild speculation. First, a little back story.

Looking back I think 2013 to 2023 will be considered crypto’s privacy dark ages. A time filled with inadequate privacy solutions / few users using privacy solutions, arrest/ prosecution of privacy developers, and when privacy was assumed to be only needed for crimes. Below is a general history of privacy as it relates to crypto and where I think we are headed.