Sarah Nicola Randall Exclusive Exclusive May 2026

"Surveillance is just intimacy without a relationship. And I, for one, would rather be alone."

"I designed a system that allows users to set temporal data permissions ," she reveals. "Currently, when you 'delete' your data, you are trusting a corporation to actually do it. Lachesis uses a distributed ledger not to store data, but to store deletion proofs . You set a timer. When the timer hits zero, the encryption keys self-immolate. Not just the access—the ability to ever reconstruct the data." sarah nicola randall exclusive

She stands up. The interview is over. As I pack my recorder, she tosses me a Mycelium Wallet prototype. It blinks green. "Surveillance is just intimacy without a relationship

Randall reveals that after the TED incident, she received over 250 death threats. Her university research grant was frozen. A car with diplomatic plates was reportedly seen idling outside her previous residence in Bristol for three weeks. Lachesis uses a distributed ledger not to store