{"id":80507,"date":"2026-04-11T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80507"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:16:32","slug":"binance-founder-cz-says-crypto-is-too-transparent-warns-of-privacy-gap-as-regulators-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80507","title":{"rendered":"Binance Founder CZ Says Crypto Is &#8216;Too Transparent,&#8217; Warns Of Privacy Gap As Regulators Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Founder and former CEO of <strong>Binance<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BNB\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BNB-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO:\u00a0BNB)<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Changpeng Zhao,<\/strong> popularly known as \u201cCZ,\u201d said that \u201cright now the crypto industry is too transparent,\u201d warning that blockchain\u2019s public ledger combined with exchange KYC data makes tracking user transactions alarmingly easy, while most regulators have yet to catch up on how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually extremely easy to track crypto funds. The blockchain is a public ledger, and if you couple that with a few centralized exchanges\u2019 KYC information, you can track most transactions pretty accurately,\u201d Zhao said Friday on TBPN.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Privacy Problem, Not Just A Feature<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>CZ illustrated the risk with a plain example: if a company pays staff in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), anyone can trace that wallet address and determine every employee\u2019s salary. Similarly, paying for a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/26\/04\/51769306\/binance-founder-cz-says-crypto-is-too-transparent-warns-of-privacy-gap-as-regulators-catch-up?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Binance\" founder cz says crypto is transparent warns of privacy gap as regulators catch up>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and former CEO of Binance (CRYPTO:\u00a0BNB)\u00a0Changpeng Zhao, popularly known as \u201cCZ,\u201d said that \u201cright now the crypto industry is too transparent,\u201d warning that blockchain\u2019s public ledger combined with exchange KYC data makes tracking user transactions alarmingly easy, while most regulators have yet to catch up on how to use it. \u201cIt\u2019s actually extremely easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-80507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}