That is the primary in a ten 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, some device to make use of Bitcoin privately, or surveillance methods.
Privateness is heads, censorship resistance is tails. They’re two sides of the identical coin.
The whole lot folks do collectively is inherently interactive. When these interactions can’t be performed privately, after they turn into widespread public data, the individuals might 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 know-how and the web it leaves bread crumbs in every single place 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, significantly 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 bread crumbs can apply know-how to exert disproportionate management over different folks.
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