Privacy-first is inherently dangerous for decentralization
Priv8 Virtual Summit: Greg Osuri, Tor Bair, Ari Paul's Take on the Decentralized Future (Orchid Labs)
“If you put privacy first, that is inherently dangerous for decentralization… when you have systems that are open, that leads to more participation, that leads to more innovation. So I really don’t know what the answer is — do we do privacy first, or do we do decentralization first, or can we do both? And if you do both, how is the user experience going to look? A lot of unanswered questions.” — 00:16:18
Context: His contrarian thesis on the panel — transparent on-chain activity is what lets people innovate on data; Tor Bair pushes back that permissionless and private-by-default are compatible. Quote spans into the [00:17:03] block.