"Privacy remains a fundamental hindrance for individuals, organizations, and industries that care about privacy and individual sovereignty," she states.

The fact that popular ledgers such as the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain make every single transaction open to the public has received plenty of (negative) attention in the financial world. "The privacy requirements for blockchain and crypto won’t be any different to current regulations applied to any other technology in financial markets,” warned the former chief digital officer of global transaction banking at Deutsche Bank, Edward Budd, last yea