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Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-089773-018375
by Gunnar Larson 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

2022-089773: “Dear Sir or Madam: Please submit any and all records related to the LendingClub.com September 11 Board of Directors resignation below. The date of the resignation is in question. You may understand the sensitive nature of the date of the resignation. Gunnar Larson Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 5:06 PM to Anuj, Investor, Press Hello there: Thank you very much for the reply. Gunnar On Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 11:36 AM Anuj Nayar wrote: Hi Gunnar On September 11, 2021, in connection with her nomination to serve as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, Adrienne Harris notified us of her resignation, effective September 12, 2021, from the Company’s Board. Details can be found in the 8k filed on 9/15/21 (below) https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK- 0001409970/bbc437e4-2920-4d5d-8e0d-86bca622f0ca.pdf From: Gunnar Larson Date: Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 9:37 AM To: Investor Relations , Press Cc: Gunnar Larson Subject: [EXT] LendingClub: Current Board of Directors CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Madam or Sir: Good day to you. Surveying market research, I was wondering if you can kindly confirm, from LendingClub's July 15, 2021 press release: Is Ms. Adrienne Harris currently a member of LendingClub's board of directors? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lendingclub-appoints-adrienne-harr… board-of-directors-301335198.html#financial-modal [prnewswire.com] Reviewing your website, Ms. Harris is not referenced:https://www.lendingclub.com/company/leadership Bloomberg and other sources do not reference Ms. Harris as a LendingClub board member: https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/LC:US [bloomberg.com] Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar -- Gunnar Larson - xNY.io [xny.io] | Bank.org [bank.org] MSc [unic.ac.cy] - Digital Currency MBA [unic.ac.cy] - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454- 9107 New York, New York 10001” Expected due date: 10.27.22. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <Carmen.Garrett(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 12:42 PM Subject: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-089773-018375 To: <g(a)xny.io> Good Afternoon: Attached, please find correspondence from the New York State Department of Financial Services pertaining to your FOIL request. Thank you. Tracking Number:FOIL-2022-089773-018375

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FBI Top Stories: Investigation Thwarts Brazen Bribery Scheme | Federal Bureau of Investigation
by Gunnar Larson 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

“There are places in the world that have given up. They have corruption at such a level that their governmental systems have completely failed,” Beeckman said. “The public there has no confidence in the people who run their country. We’re not there in this country, and we have no intention of getting there.” Bribery is a federal crime. If you suspect it, contact the FBI <https://tips.fbi.gov/>. A common worry is that if you submit a tip, you will be the sole cause of an open investigation about a public official. This is not accurate. Beeckman confirmed that a public corruption case cannot be opened based on a single source. “No detail is too small. You could be the person who supplies the last bit of information that we need—the puzzle piece that makes it all make sense,” he said. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: FBI <fbi(a)subscriptions.fbi.gov> Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 12:01 PM Subject: FBI Top Stories: Investigation Thwarts Brazen Bribery Scheme | Federal Bureau of Investigation To: <g(a)xny.io> Investigation Thwarts Brazen Bribery Scheme An attorney, an elected official, and a businessman engaged in an outrageous corruption scheme, but the FBI thwarted their efforts. Nov. 16, 2022 Full Story <https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/bribery-story-111622?utm_campaign=email-Im…> ------------------------------ <https://www.facebook.com/FBI> <https://twitter.com/FBI> <https://www.youtube.com/user/FBI> <https://www.fbi.gov/e-mail-updates?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=…> * You have received this message because you are subscribed to one or more of the following categories: FBI Top Stories * Manage Subscription <https://delivery.fbi.gov/account-reminder> | Unsubscribe <https://delivery.fbi.gov/subscriber/c57956fe9830b3f02d21fe7a2581942df706f0b…> If you have questions about this service, email us at delivery(a)subscriptions.fbi.gov. Help <https://www.fbi.gov/e-mail-updates?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=…> | Privacy Policy <http://www.fbi.gov/privacy_policy?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=e…> | Visit FBI.gov <https://www.fbi.gov/?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=email&utm_sour…>

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Re: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-092267-018524
by Gunnar Larson 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Thank you very much. Gunnar Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-454-9107 On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 10:23 AM <Carmen.Garrett(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: > > Good Morning: > > Attached, please find correspondence from the New York State Department of > Financial Services pertaining to your FOIL request. > > Thank you. > > Tracking Number:FOIL-2022-092267-018524 >

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Fwd: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-092267-018524
by Gunnar Larson 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

2022-092267: “Dear Madam or Sir: On May 18, 2022 xNY.io - Bank.org received a copy of a financial disclosure form for Mr. Richard Weber (General Counsel, NY-DFS) noting an advisory council role at the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. No address was provided: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCIh9CQiwxVILSv86B54kEcipVRnx1YQ/view?usp=… We would like to receive any and all records NY-DFS and Human Rights hold for this appointment approval for a state associated represenative. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <Carmen.Garrett(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 10:23 AM Subject: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-092267-018524 To: <G(a)xny.io> Good Morning: Attached, please find correspondence from the New York State Department of Financial Services pertaining to your FOIL request. Thank you. Tracking Number:FOIL-2022-092267-018524

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Fwd: FOIL #2022-089772 Appeal
by Gunnar Larson 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

“Many experts are concerned about MIA Coin and resulting NYCCoin disasters. We would like to receive any and all documents related between the NY-DFS Superintendent and the New York City Mayor’s office related to NYCCoin”. The Determination informed you that your FOIL request did not reasonably describe the records that you sought from the Department because FOIL requires that a requestor must describe the records sought and provide sufficient detail so that the agency can identify and locate the records requested. See Konigsberg v. Coughlin, 68 N.Y.2d 245 (1986); In re Farbman & Sons v. NYC Health & Hosps. Corp., 62 N.Y.2d 75 (1984); Matter of Wright v. Hippolyte, 2014 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1247, 2014 NY Slip Op 301705 (U) (Sup. Ct. N.Y. County 2014). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tomczak, Christine (DFS) <christine.tomczak(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 9:27 AM Subject: FOIL #2022-089772 Appeal To: g(a)xny.io <g(a)xny.io> Dear Mr. Larson. See attached letter. Christine M. Tomczak Assistant Counsel New York State Department of Financial Services 1 State Street, New York, New York 10004

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priceless
by punk 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

can't make this shit up, even if you try for a million years

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Cryptocurrency: FTX Fraud Exposes Scam Of Woke Capitalism
by grarpamp 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-fraud-exposes-woke-capit… Michael Shellenberger Crypto Fraud Exposes Woke Capitalism As A Scam Why do people keep falling for it? Michael Shellenberger Nov 17 Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum; Sam Bankman-Fried, founder, FTX; President Bill Clinton Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, which was, until last week, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, is today facing prison time for allegedly defrauding his customers of billions of dollars. Bankman-Fried, 30, donated to many progressive causes allied with the “effective altruism movement,” including pandemic prevention and response. He spoke at, and presumably donated to, the World Economic Forum’s Davos conference last May and the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative in September. Bankman-Fried is similar to Bernie Madoff in that both men used philanthropic giving, and the veneer of humility, to create a positive reputation while running pyramid schemes that should have set off red flags among investors, regulators, and journalists. In truth, the Bankman-Fried scandal shows that all do-gooder capitalism should set off red flags. Bankman-Fried claimed he was only trying to get rich in order to raise money for charity, and investors and journalists overwhelmingly took him at his word, even while visiting him at his $40 million home in the Bahamas. “You were really good at talking about ethics for someone who kind of saw it all as a game with winners and losers,” a Vox reporter said to Bankman-Fried last night, to which he responded, “ya, hehe… I feel bad for those who get fucked by it. By this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths [sic] so everyone likes us.” Kelsey Piper: you were really good at talking about ethics, for someone who kind of saw it all as a game with winners and losers Sam Bankman-Fried: ya. Hehe. I had to be. it’s what reputations are made of, to some extent. I feel bad for those who get fucked by it, by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us. Defenders of do-gooder capitalism say that socially-responsible investing, which was rebranded as ESG to refer to investing that takes environmental, social, and governance issues into account, has done a lot of good. They point to ESG investments in things like renewable energy, electric vehicles, and carbon offsets as proof that capitalism and philanthropy can co-exist. But ESG has been rocked by scandal after scandal for greenwashing things that are bad for the environment, people, and democracy. Few carbon offsets actually reduce carbon emissions. Many are scams. Some pay landowners to not cut down trees they were never going to log. Others pay renewable energy developers who were already going to build wind and solar projects. Most solar panels and electric car batteries are made in Xinjiang, China by incarcerated Uyghur Muslims. Solar projects require 300-600 times more land than nuclear or natural gas plants and are devastating fragile desert environments. And there is no waste disposal solution for used solar panels, a hazardous waste, which means they will be sent to landfills or dumped on poor nations. Even Bankman-Fried acknowledges that “ESG has been perverted beyond recognition.” “Fraud” may seem like a harsh word for describing ESG, but Black’s Law defines fraud as an activity that relies on deception in order to achieve a gain, and ESG certifiers, and sellers of solar panels and solar projects, know perfectly well that their projects violate the letter and spirit of ESG. Representatives of the renewable energy industry for years claimed their products were cheaper than other energy sources even as they were lobbying Congress for $369 billion in subsidies. And many ESG funds exclude nuclear energy even though nuclear has the smallest environmental footprint of any energy source, pays higher wages than solar, and enjoys the strictest regulatory governance of any energy source. CoinDesk - Unknown Clinton with Bankman-Fried at the Clinton Global Initiative, September 17-19, 2022. In truth, societies are much more vulnerable to ESG, renewable energy, and offset frauds than to con artists like Madoff and Bankman-Fried. The latter are caught as soon as the stock market crashes and their pyramid scheme collapses. ESG, renewables, and offsets, by contrast, continue to find customers despite scandal after scandal — as do the the Clinton Foundation and World Economic Forum. The Clinton Foundation is still holding pay-to-play conferences despite having been caught accepting $10 to $25 million from Saudi Arabia and $1 million from Qatar before and while, respectively, Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. And the World Economic Forum’s founder, Klaus Schwab, was at the G-20 meeting this week despite revelations that WEF promoted FTX. As such, the question is not why Woke frauds like Bankman-Fried do what they do, nor why they get caught, but rather why people fall for it. Why do such transparent efforts to buy public sympathy through greenwashing and woke-washing continue to work? Wokeism Is The New “Greed Is Good” Andrew Ross Sorkin and Kate Rooney referring to Bankman-Fried as “the JP Morgan” and “Michael Jordan,” respectively, of crypto. Over the spring and summer, as investors pulled their money out of cryptocurrencies, Bankman-Fried started bailing out cryptocurrency firms. He characterized his actions as altruistic. Many reporters uncritically accepted this interpretation. CNBC’s Jim Cramer called Bankman-Fried the “J.P. Morgan of this generation,” in reference to banker John Pierpont Morgan’s famous 1907 bail-out of failing banks. “They call him the J.P. Morgan of crypto,” said CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin of the influential show, Squawk Box, while introducing a September 16, 2022 profile of Bankman-Fried. “Yeah, the Michael Jordan of crypto!” responded financial reporter Kate Rooney. She went on. “He spent hundreds of millions of dollars to bail out struggling companies facing bankruptcy, liquidity issues — you name it. The CEO, though, lives a relatively understated life for a billionaire. He drives a Toyota Corolla to FTX's offices in The Bahamas. He lives with 10 roommates. And a golden doodle named Gopher sometimes sleeps under his desk on a beanbag chair.” Rooney didn’t mention that Bankman-Fried’s home is valued at $40 million, even though she interviewed him in it. In fact, Bankman-Fried’s FTX allegedly spent $74 million on real estate in the Bahamas. “You said FTX has a responsibility to seriously consider stepping into the time to save companies,” swooned Rooney. “Why did you have that sense of responsibility?” In retrospect, there were red flags everywhere. In several interviews this fall, Bankman-Fried’s leg is shaking nervously. In 2020, Bankman-Fried admitted to using stimulants. “In general, probably half of all people or more should be taking meds of some kind, because they just make your life a lot better,” he told a podcaster. And in April, Bankman-Fried appeared to admit that his company was a Ponzi (pyramid) scheme to a Bloomberg reporter named Matt Levine. “You start with a company that builds a box,” Bankman-Fried told Levine. “Maybe for now actually ignore what it does or pretend it does literally nothing. It's just a box…. This box is worth zero obviously … But on the other hand, if everyone kind of now thinks that this box [cryptocurrency] token is worth about a billion dollar market cap, that's what people are pricing it at and sort of has that market cap.” The interviewer, Matt Levine, a former investor and one of the leading crypto reporters in the U.S., interjected, “You're just like, ‘Well, I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good,’” to which Bankman-Fried said, “I think that’s a pretty reasonable response… that's one framing of this. And I think there's like a sort of depressing amount of validity.” At that very moment, Bankman-Friedman appears to have been using FTX’s own cryptocurrency as collateral for lending FTX customer money to his hedge fund, Alameda Capital. In retrospect he appears to be making something of a confession to Levine back in April. “Everyone's gonna mark to market,” said Bankman-Friedman. “In fact, you can even finance this, right? You put X token in a borrow lending protocol and borrow dollars with it. If you think it's worth like [not] less than two-thirds of that, you could even just like put some in there, take the dollars out [and] never, you know, give the dollars back.” And yet, Levine writes, “I came away from that conversation bullish on FTX and Bankman-Fried. My view was, and is, that if you talk to a crypto exchange operator and he is like ‘crypto is changing the world, your old-fashioned economics are just FUD, HODL,’ then that’s bad. A wild-eyed crypto true believer is not the person to operate an exchange. The person you want operating an exchange is a clear-eyed trader.” Levine’s not alone. In his various interviews, Bankman-Fried came across with humility and an “aw shucks” style while also communicating quiet confidence. Six times, in response to questions from Chuck Todd of “Meet the Press” last September, Bankman-Fried said, silkily, “It’s a good question.” The way Bankman-Fried said it sounded like a compliment, like he was praising the journalist for his intelligence. As such, Bankman-Fried was making a classic confidence artist move. In many cons, the confidence artist expresses his own confidence in his mark so that the mark will reciprocate by investing his confidence in the con artist. Humans are so wired to reciprocity that it feels rude not to feel confident in someone who has expressed confidence in us. And con artists like Bankman-Fried and Madoff expressed progressive values broadly shared by elites, including journalists. On “Meet the Press,” Bankman-Fried told Todd that he was making pandemic prevention and response a key part of his “effective altruism” philanthropy. “Covid is one of the clearest examples of this,” he said, “where we did not as a country, or as a world, frankly, have a coherent strategy.” Why, then, do frauds like Madoff and Bankman-Fried get away with it? And why do we keep trusting people like the Clintons and Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum? Because many people, particularly liberal-minded investors, but also journalists and members of the voting public, want to trust them. Wishful thinking is powerful. We saw a similar dynamic with the fraud carried out by Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes. Rich and powerful people wanted to believe in her for the same reason people wanted to believe in Bankman-Fried. And liberals especially wanted to believe Bankman-Fried. That’s because they tend to feel guiltier than conservatives and libertarians about their greed. They thus need Wokeism, an alternative religion, to justify it. “Greed is good,” said the hostile takeover investor played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 classic, “Wall Street.” Douglas proceeded to give the standard justification of capitalism provided by Adam Smith in 1776. “Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind,” said the Douglas character. Such a justification doesn’t work for liberals. They need to feel that their greed is good because their greed is altruistic. What hucksters like Bankman-Fried, the Clintons, and Klaus Schwab provide is a Woke justification for their greed. Breaking The Woke-Greed Trance World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab speaking at the G-20 meeting on Monday, November 14, 2022. © 2022 Michael Shellenberger Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice Publish on Substack Get the app Substack is the home for great writing

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[ot][spam][crazy] SPAM? DISRUPT? CONFUSE? ALIGN?
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

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CHT Fwd: Our Recent Appearance on ‘60 Minutes’
by Karl Semich 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

i tried forwarding this to libtech but i don’t remember what address i am subscribed with ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Center for Humane Technology <hello(a)humanetech.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:00:48 +0000 Subject: Our Recent Appearance on ‘60 Minutes’ To: 0xloem(a)gmail.com Plus, we're hiring for three roles This Catalyst email is a repeat of our prior newsletter, resent to those that didn't read the original. If you'd like to be removed from the "Resend Series" please email hello(a)humanetech.com (mailto:hello@humanetech.com?subject=Remove%20From%20%22Resend%20Series%22) . subscribe (https://www.humanetech.com/join?utm_source=Movement+for+Humane+Technology&u…) | view as a webpage (https://mailchi.mp/humanetech.com/humane-technology-on-60-minutes-hiring-an…) The Catalyst Our monthly newsletter explores technology, human behavior, ethics, and systems reform. Did someone forward you this email? 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Plus, we’re hiring (https://www.humanetech.com/careers?utm_source=Movement+for+Humane+Technolog…) ! https://www.humanetech.com/insights/60-minutes-social-media-and-political-p… ** THE MOVEMENT IS HAPPENING: 60 MINUTES AND MORE ------------------------------------------------------------ CHT Co-Founder Tristan Harris and author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes to discuss how social media’s engagement-based business model rewards polarization and undermines basic democratic functioning (https://www.humanetech.com/democratic-functioning?utm_source=Movement+for+H…) : https://www.humanetech.com/insights/60-minutes-social-media-and-political-p… The episode (https://www.humanetech.com/insights/60-minutes-social-media-and-political-p…) aired on the cusp of a U.S. election season where public trust in government has reached historical lows (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/06/06/public-trust-in-government-…) while election disinformation, political violence, and partisanship have been at an all-time high (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/partisanship-republicans-dem…) . 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The first time Tristan Harris was on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper in 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAMTQZmvPE&utm_source=Movement+for+Humane+…) , he popularized the idea of “persuasive technology,” the “attention economy,” and “the race to the bottom of the brain stem” between social media companies. That interview catalyzed a new global conversation, the founding of CHT, and laid the groundwork for The Social Dilemma documentary. Five years later, 60 Minutes is now connecting social media’s business model to polarization and democratic decline for nearly 11 million live viewers. Just as it did in 2017, we hope this 60 Minutes segment establishes new mainstream recognition of how social media affects democracy. In a special follow-up podcast, we reflect on the 60 Minutes episode, including why it matters even if you're not on social media. (https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/humane-technology-on-60-minutes?utm_sour…) ** How We’re Strengthening the Movement ------------------------------------------------------------ We’ve been hard at work to build momentum for solutions: We helped launch the Council for Responsible Social Media (https://issueone.org/projects/council-for-responsible-social-media/?utm_sou…) , which brings together bipartisan technology, government, and national security experts to develop smart, practical policy solutions. The group includes Dick Gephardt (former U.S. Rep), Kerry Healey (former Lt. Gov.), Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, Dr. Danielle Allen, and Fairplay for Kids CEO Josh Golin, among 30+ others. We coordinated with the Nantucket Project (https://nantucketproject.com/tnp10/?utm_source=Movement+for+Humane+Technolo…) to activate global leaders around the “Social Media Emergency” in a 4-day convening. 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This is our most recent episode on Twitter, which discusses what it would take for Elon Musk to make Twitter more humane. ** WHAT WE'RE READING, LISTENING TO, & WATCHING ------------------------------------------------------------ * The Strengthening Democracy Challenge was a crowd-sourced project by researchers aiming to find solutions to the current-day political divide. Civic Health Project highlights some of the most successful approaches that encourage Americans to choose democracy over party (https://www.civichealthproject.org/short-simple-interventions-can-reduce-pa…) : + Make the threat of democratic collapse in America tangible by sharing real-world examples, such as what's happening in Venezuela. + Correcting perception gaps by sharing data that shows we’re much more aligned than we think. + Reduce partisan animosity by sharing positive interactions between people with ideological differences. 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Cryptocurrency: A16Z Claims ZK To Provide Compliant Privacy, Ending Regimes
by grarpamp 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Not your keys, not your privacy, there is and can be no compromise. The only solution is to develop, roll out, and let humanity adopt and regain its privacy and self power. And to recognize that humanity will deal just fine with physical problems in the realworld, just as it always has. Privacy is a necesssary reversion back to the those things that have always worked for humanity, instead of the attempts to kill privacy that are now enabling the worst of regimes and atrocities against humanity. It should be noted that "money laundering" "illicit finance" etc are almost exclusively simply collective efforts by humanity to starve out and end the unconscionable taxation that further enables and props up such regimes, not efforts to actually agress upon anyone. https://a16zcrypto.com/achieving-crypto-privacy-and-regulatory-compliance/ Achieving Crypto Privacy and Regulatory Compliance A few potential solutions for preserving privacy and mitigating illicit finance in web3 using zero knowledge proof technology. Developers must have total freedom to choose the approaches they wish to adopt. We hope these ideas will spark creative discussion, further research, and development around the possibilities of zero-knowledge proofs among builders and policymakers alike. Two goals: 1. Protect consumer privacy 2. Reduce the risk of illicit finance We believe both ends are simultaneously achievable. https://a16zcrypto.com/privacy-protecting-regulatory-solutions-using-zero-k… Privacy-Protecting Regulatory Solutions Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs This paper proposes zero-knowledge proof solutions to reconcile consumer blockchain privacy needs and regulatory and national security needs.

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