Privacy Chains Sharpen a Question: Who Controls the Off Switch

Aztec and Miden are building confidential-execution designs and arguing over who, if anyone, should be able to disable a user's privacy.

A group of privacy-focused networks is moving from research to live systems, and their public writing has converged on a single design question. Aztec, a zero-knowledge network on Ethereum, frames it directly in a post asking who controls a…