🏴☠️ Arkham "hacked" Zcash? A scandal around the de-anonymization report
Arkham Intelligence stated that they are capable of de-anonymizing more than half of Zcash transactions
and have already matched about $420 billion in turnover with specific users, including some operations from the shielded pool.
It sounds like a blow to privacy — and the community's reaction was swift.
⚔️ What does Zcash say?
The creator of the project, Zooko Wilcox, responded firmly:
Arkham mainly analyzes those wallets whose owners have themselves renounced privacy,
and a large part of the conclusions is based on open data, not on hacking technologies.
This means de-anonymization is only possible where users have "undressed" publicly.
🔑 The main moral of the scandal
Privacy is not a magic button.
It only works if it is truly used:
• shielded transactions,
• private addresses,
• avoiding public links,
• lack of behavioral leaks.
If a person ignores privacy tools, no coin will save them.
🏁 What's next?
The scandal reminded the market of a simple thing:
in crypto, privacy is not a property of the network, but a habit of the user.
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