# Privacy-first is inherently dangerous for decentralization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-11-19
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Priv8 Virtual Summit: Greg Osuri, Tor Bair, Ari Paul's Take on the Decentralized Future (Orchid Labs)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6MlnDl6Rs&t=978s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2021-11-19-privacy-first-is-inherently-dangerous-for-decentra-spc4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Privacy-first is inherently dangerous for decentralization," Priv8 Virtual Summit: Greg Osuri, Tor Bair, Ari Paul's Take on the Decentralized Future (Orchid Labs), 19 Nov 2021, 00:16:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6MlnDl6Rs&t=978s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.