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Shielded Transactions | Bitcoin's Privacy Problem (with Zooko Wilcox)

The Foresight Institute Podcast

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Cryptography

Markham: I spent like 12 years trying to figure out how to have a decentralized currency. And then Bitcoin came along and I was the first person to write a blog post about it. The initial Bitcoin homepage linked to Nick's job on this page, Wade's page and my page is our is its three links to other home pages. Markham: There was an era of optimism and creativity, which was like the 90s, like the Web 1.0 boom. But what changed that was Bitcoin.

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