Peer-To-Peer

Financial Surveillance at the Southern Border is Expanding
Millions of ordinary people are being treated as suspects. And small businesses are bearing the cost.
 • Nick Anthony and Coin Center
Your IP address will betray you
Porn IP trolls and the government can easily pierce the veil
 • Neeraj K. Agrawal, Laz Pieper, and Coin Center
The Feds are buying your data. AI is making it more useful than ever.
In the United States we enjoy a feeling of comfort from knowing that the government generally needs a warrant to pry deeply into our lives.
 • Neeraj K. Agrawal, Coin Center, and Laz Pieper
Big government is big tech’s moat
Concentration makes control easier
 • Laz Pieper and Coin Center
“Am I a man, or am I a Muppet?”
“Are we constructing machines with consciousness?” It’s no surprise that this inquiry captivates the general public, as AI—or more specifically, large…
 • Laz Pieper, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Coin Center, and Peter Van Valkenburgh

September 2026

Engineering Obscurity
Digitization and AI have erased the costs that once protected our privacy. A new generation of cryptography is bringing them back.
 • Kyle Schneps, Coin Center, Neeraj K. Agrawal, and Laz Pieper
Open-source AI is only ‘unstoppable’ when its developers are protected
Open-source software has long empowered anyone in the world with the tools and knowledge necessary for self-sovereignty since the advent of the personal…
 • Laz Pieper, Coin Center, and Neeraj K. Agrawal
“It equates to a civil death." – What happens when America cancels you?
In June 2025, President Trump played a serious card in the decades-long dispute between the United States and International Criminal Court.
 • Neeraj K. Agrawal, Coin Center, Laz Pieper, Peter Van Valkenburgh, and Jason Somensatto
We’re not so sure the Digital Euro will have ‘maximum’ privacy.
Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Executive Board, recently claimed that the digital euro—Europe’s central bank digital…
 • Laz Pieper, Coin Center, Neeraj K. Agrawal, and Peter Van Valkenburgh
The huge driver’s license hack was inevitable. It’s time to get mad.
The enormous driver’s-license hack reported by KrebsOnSecurity is outrageous.
 • Peter Van Valkenburgh and Coin Center

August 2026

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