That is the primary in a ten episode video sequence specializing in Bitcoin privateness, filmed at bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga and elsewhere. Every episode will contact on some facet of Bitcoin privateness, some instrument to make use of Bitcoin privately, or surveillance methods.
Privateness is heads, censorship resistance is tails. They’re two sides of the identical coin.
Every little thing folks do collectively is inherently interactive. When these interactions can’t be carried out privately, once they develop into widespread public data, the individuals may be subjected to exterior strain. They are often shunned, shamed, jailed, or penalized in lots of different methods.
With out privateness you don’t have 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 expertise and the web it leaves bread crumbs all over the place by its nature.
These bread crumb trails, together with the computing expertise that created them within the first place, has radically modified the surroundings 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 aptitude to select up and analyze these bread crumbs can apply expertise to exert disproportionate management over different folks.
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