, that question was this: if blockchain is supposed to give people more freedom, why does it force everyone to make all their personal data public? That one question led to one of the most interesting blockchain projects being built today.
Here is the full story from the beginning.
The Idea Came Before the Announcement
Most people think @MidnightNetwork suddenly appeared in 2022, but the truth is the team had been quietly working on it for years before saying anything publicly. The people behind it work at a company called Input Output Global, the same company that built Cardano. Charles Hoskinson, who is the founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, led the effort.
The problem they wanted to solve was straightforward. Blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum show every transaction to the public. Anyone can look up your wallet and see everything you have ever done on chain. That works fine for some things, but for a hospital managing patient data, a business handling contracts, or just a regular person who values their privacy, it is a serious problem. Midnight was built to fix
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