C@C ISSUE 6 — Privacy, Transparency and Law Enforcement: Where is the Path to Equilibrium?

The U.S. blacklisting of Tornado Cash, the Netherlands’ arrest of a software developer for writing code, and EU lawmakers’ attempts to restrict user-controlled wallets and privacy coins all point to the same fundamental tension. Law enforcement, financial regulators and the taxman want to make even the smallest crypto transactions legible, but users want privacy. What is the appropriate balance? Findings from this invitation-only roundtable discussion will be presented to the public during the Crypto Policy Summit and in CoinDesk’s inaugural Consensus @ Consensus report.