That is the primary in a 10-episode video collection specializing in Bitcoin privateness, filmed at bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga and elsewhere. Every episode will contact on some facet of Bitcoin privateness, instruments to make use of Bitcoin privately or surveillance strategies.
Privateness is heads, censorship resistance is tails. They’re two sides of the identical coin.
Every part folks do collectively is inherently interactive. When these interactions can’t be carried out privately, once they turn out to be widespread public data, the contributors may be subjected to exterior stress. They are often shunned, shamed, jailed or penalized in lots of different methods.
With out privateness, you haven’t any censorship resistance. With out privateness, most individuals will censor themselves.
On this first episode, I sit down with Yuval Kogman from Spiral to debate privateness within the fashionable digital period. Bitcoin is a digital cash, and like all the things else in our lives that has been digitized by computing know-how and the web, it leaves bread crumbs in all places by its nature.
These bread crumb trails, together with the computing know-how that created them within the first place, has radically modified the setting by which folks work together with one another, notably the place some type of energy asymmetry exists (i.e., the governing vs. the ruled).
These with the potential to choose up and analyze these breadcrumbs can apply know-how to exert disproportionate management over different folks.
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