You go through Billions’ verification,
and do everything we ask you for.
You get verified and wonder,
⚠️"Where do you store my data?"
It’s YOUR personal data after all,
like your passport, and so on.
Billions CEO Evin McMullen @provenauthority
was asked the exact same question
by @HouseofChimera Founder Diederick Jacobs
in a Spaces event on Dec 3, 2025
➡️ Evin answered:
When it comes to data storage,
the standard in web2 is massive servers
that store copies of your information,
owned and controlled by those enterprises.
Which can be beneficial to user experiences,
but can also be costly and burdensome to businesses
and risky in terms of potential exposure of your data.
You might recall an old slogan that Google had,
"Don't be evil."
At Billions Network we like to say,
"Can't be evil."
Meaning:
We are cryptographically prevented
from ever seeing or being able to modify
the data about our 2.3M+ global users
who we support.
Rather,
sensitive data about users
is kept on their own devices,
encrypted against their own keys,
meaning that only zero knowledge proofs
(evidence of qualifying or having a certain trait,
basically like a green light or a thumbs up)
gets shared from the user to external parties.
There's no single centralized server
that is storing all of the input data.
It stays under every individual's consent
and control.
This is a little bit different
than a lot of the ways
that traditional databases
and traditional businesses
approach user data.
That's why so many government entities
have reached out to us in partnership
and to ask for advisory support
because they see this as a better way
to serve their citizens on an operational level
in terms of internal government operations,
but also externally as an example of a way
to be able to comply with laws, keep everyone safe,
and yet provide the amazing personalized experiences
that we can and should expect from the internet.
btw: we have a super chill IRL event
coming up in Shenzhen, China 🇨🇳
Our @Billions_CN Marketing Lead @luluciaciao
will be there and explain our privacy vision
in the age of invasive scam and AI as well as
upcoming product highlights (alpha alert 🚨).
Register for a relaxed evening
to have a chat and drinks:
https://t.co/dhQruiDbk2
🗓 Date & Time
Dec 21 (Sun), 20:00–23:00
📋 Agenda
- 20:00–20:30|Check-in & merch pickup
- 20:30–20:40|Billions Opening Talk
- 20:40–23:30|Free networking & social time
- 21:15–22:15|DJ set & Party mode
In collaboration with:
@OurTinTinLand (@TinTinLand_ZH),
Asia’s leading Web3 platform
for developer growth and
ecosystem acceleration.
Everything you need to know to quickly compare @billions_ntwk vs other Web3 identity & privacy layers — clean, simple, no fluff.
👇
https://t.co/Akl4OjgUiB
"What is the cleanest way to compare Billions
with other web3 identity layers and privacy layers?"
The word privacy means
a lot of things to
a lot of different people.
Often it is associated with consent,
which is an action that you take that
diminishes the privacy of a given set of data.
Privacy is basically the
process of information arbitrage,
the selective disclosure of data
in order to enable interactions.
Although in a web2 environment,
that "free" transaction of data
often weighs very heavily to one side.
When we talk about privacy
at Billions Network,
privacy is a static state,
the absence of disclosure,
or a way to describe the outcomes
of mechanisms of data disclosure.
We really focus on those instances
where the selective disclosure of data
is a question of legal compliance,
of security, of financial value,
where the decision to leverage
this technology is not necessarily
one of personal feelings,
but rather of business efficiency,
of compliance, and security.
Source: Billions CEO Evin McMullen @provenauthority
speaking at @HouseofChimera Spaces Event Dec 3, 2025
In an era where AI is rapidly evolving,
the boundaries of identity and privacy
are being rewritten.
Don’t miss our next Billions event
in Shenzhen, China 🇨🇳
🗓 Date & Time
Dec 21 (Sun), 20:00–23:00
https://t.co/dhQruiDbk2
Join a relaxed evening to experience
our privacy-preserving verification and
dive into the future of human + AI privacy
In collaboration with:
@OurTinTinLand (@TinTinLand_ZH),
Asia’s leading Web3 platform
for developer growth and
ecosystem acceleration.
PART 2:
@RaylsLabs had 150k+ successful registrations equating to ~ $150k made in less than a month
The next project(s) comes again and you'll be mandated to pay fees again and the circle repeats over and over again.... infinity money glitch hehehe
That being said , they're free platforms that offer free POH to users
@0xmercle@billions_ntwk ....who did I miss?
PART 1
Let me bring you up to speed on how some projects are using “airdrop registration” to swindle funds from people.
Check @RaylsLabs.
They launch campaign(s) with guaranteed rewards for participants.
A snapshot is taken, and when it’s time to check the airdrop eligibility page, you find out whether you qualified or not.
But here’s the tricky part: after you’ve “qualified” for the drop, you’re required to register for the airdrop and confirm that you’re “human / not a Sybil.”
GUESS WHAT? 😁
You still don’t get to see your airdrop allocation after registering due to reasons best known to the team.
So you’re then asked to pay $1, $2, $4 to the human-verification platform (usually @Authena_xyz) as a fee to mint an NFT that proves you’re a “verified human.”
TGE finally comes, and your allocation is revealed let’s say an hour after TGE only for you to discover that it’s not even up to the amount you paid just to be verified as human.
Good news if passport is optional because not everyone has it, and this is how @billions_ntwk hears the voice of the community 👀
learn more👇
https://t.co/fyMc0zOFKz