Nillion Gives Crypto & Data Security a Human Upgrade – Conrad Whelan : 971

<p><em>Dave Asprey partners with Nillion as an advisor and investor.</em></p><p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE</strong>™<strong>...</strong></p><p>… you’ll learn about the frontier of web3 and privacy and what happens to your private data (both on blockchains and in general). You’ll also find out how and why the future moves away from transactions (blockchain) and into computations (multi-party computation).&nbsp;</p><p>Think about where you store&nbsp;your identity and&nbsp;your deepest digital secrets. The current solutions aren’t great — in web2, the Big Tech 'old guard' has been quietly storing and monetizing your data for over a decade, and in web3,&nbsp;blockchains aren't designed to handle private data. A new algorithm,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nillion.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nillion</a>, inspired Conrad Whelan (the&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQC2wrQ-b14d_yNf2gAqfMsrQcnfxYlwPwnOTzkor0pJQvpRegCp7dq6fMQyED3vqul3QBXehv9DSEi/pub" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Founding Engineer of Uber</a>) to come out of early retirement and do something about this.&nbsp;</p><p>This conversation looks at the data you unassumingly give away freely, and how it’s captured, held and used/computed on without your consent by large companies and other parties. Conrad believes in a future where your sensitive data and digital secrets can be fully controlled by you (and you alone) using web3 technology. This means you’d be the final gatekeeper of your data with the power to authenticate, authorize and use it as you see fit.</p><p>Conrad’s building that future as&nbsp;Nillion’s Founding Chief Technology Officer. His&nbsp;background includes electrical and computer engineering. He worked in the fields of computational electromagnetics before&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/where-are-they-now-meet-12-of-ubers-first-employees-three-of-them-are-now-billionaires/slidelist/50096516.cms" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">joining