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

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Cryptography as a Black Box Abstraction

I used to be convinced that no one cares about privacy, but then later I became skeptical of all those stories. So I do think it's a lot more important to have people who build things with black box abstractions. The object-app paradigm is the best way to get started for a programmer. And yeah, speaking as one who's remained contributing so far into cash is a novel of that,. But yeah, reuse and bring it to more users and giving them new things they can do with it and all that.

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