Kurt Nielson believes the combination of multi-party computation (MPC) and blockchain technology is a winner and Partisia Blockchain is the culmination of that vision. Partisia Blockchain is a Web 3.0 platform built for trust, transparency and privacy. It is privacy, along with security, that have to be paramount if cryptocurrencies are to be adopted, and it is MPC and blockchain that will make it happen. Mr. Nielson has been an economist for more than 15 years, and for him, the breakthrough occurred when he found a way to use MPC to solve for privacy concerns. Blockchain hooked him from the beginning, he admitted. Like MPC it is a distributed system and had solved issues related to consensus and privacy. “We realized we were solving tasks they were solving but in a better way but they were solving privacy in a better way,” Mr. Nielson said. “There must be some kind of merger between these two technologies. That’s what kept us busy these last three or...