Nym at Bitcoin 2025 Vegas: Making crypto private for once

Nym is coming to you live from the largest Bitcoin conference in the world this week with Adam Back and other cypherpunk pioneers. In addition to the Nym team talking day-in and day-out with crypto enthusiasts, I will be presenting tomorrow alongside Blake Benthall and others on “Reclaiming Internet Privacy in a World of Surveillance.”

To mark the occasion, we’re offering 50% off of NymVPN subscriptions right now! But we decided that this promo shouldn’t only benefit those who could come to Vegas: everyone who needs protections for their crypto should have access, wherever you are. Privacy is a global problem. But the offer only lasts till the end of Bitcoin 2025 conference tomorrow night, Friday 30 May 2025, at midnight EST.

Why? Because crypto isn’t really private, and we’re headed for a Web3 data disaster if people don’t have the right tools to defend themselves.

So get access to the world's most decentralized and anonymous VPN, even with all that dirty fiat money, or that Monero you’ve been storing in a shoebox for a rainy day. Pay as you wish – no matter what you choose, your payment information is protected thanks to zero-knowledge proofs. Afterall, 50% off is a big price to reap for genuine anonymity for all!

At Bitcoin 2025?

Interested in how Nym provides much more than other VPNs? Stop by the panel at the Open Source Stage from 3:00 – 3:30 PM on Thursday, 29 May. I will be talking with Carl Dong of ObscuraVPN and Blake Emerson from Silk Road 2.0, who got put in jail by the FBI due to being de-anonymized even while using Tor.

We'll get to the real facts of what keeps you anonymous on the Internet and what doesn't. But most importantly, we’ll talk about what you can do right now, including the best kind of decentralized VPN to protect not only your crypto, but all of your traffic at the same time.

Can’t make it to Bitcoin 2025?

No worries. We’re making sure you have the resources to see why Nym is much more than a VPN, and how our approach to decentralized routing is the most optimal for your privacy.

In short, while most VPNs claim to be secure and private, you’re just shipping your credit card data and all your internet traffic to a centralized server. Even Tor has been increasingly subject to nation-state level attacks by the FBI and other powerful actors.

NymVPN was designed to offer everyone another possibility: a decentralized mixnet where no single point on the network can connect you with what you do online, where your payments are secured by zero-knowledge proofs, and your packets are mixed to prevent even AI traffic analysis.

NymVPN: Making the internet private by default

For Nym, the Noise Generating Mixnet (NGM) completes the cypherpunk vision: an anonymous and censorship resistant access to the Internet.

Originally, cypherpunks like Adam Back ran the original mixnets to enable anonymous e-mail so that there could be a free spread of information. Unfortunately, this led to anonymous spam. Rather than use centralized whitelists, Adam implemented the practice of "proof of work" to make it difficult to send anonymous e-mail for free. In a way, blockchain was born here.

Despite the ongoing speculation on Satoshi Nakamato’s real identity behind their nym, one thing is certain: Satoshi used a mixnet for anonymous internet access. The key invention of Bitcoin crucially depends on allowing miners to join the consensus process anonymously, without identities or whitelists, just pure hashing power. But what protected Satoshi’s identity to this day is also a power that can protect us all.

Check out this great podcast with Adam on mixnets!

And now, the first large-scale, commercially available mixnet for all traffic is accessible for everyone thanks to a community of Nym node operators, researchers, and devs. Simply toggle on the Anonymous mode on NymVPN for mixnet protections and zk-nym credentials.

So thank you Satoshi. Now, it's time to give the gift of anonymity to everyone in the Bitcoin community with NymVPN. And as we're saying, don't gamble with your privacy!