
Stephan Livera Podcast SLP167 Chris Belcher - What’s The Problem With Bitcoin Surveillance?
Apr 21, 2020
01:16:54
Chris Belcher rejoins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Surveillance companies, and what risks they present to Bitcoin. We also talk about JoinMarket fidelity bonds.
- Chain surveillance techniques
- Downsides for Bitcoin
- What to do about it
- “Just Use Monero” is insufficient
- PayJoin & P2EP
- Fidelity Bonds - how they work
- Benefits and costs
Chris Belcher Links:
- Joinmarket donation page: https://bitcoinprivacy.me/joinmarket-donations
- Fidelity bond doc: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/18ea0e6acdb885a2bfbdee43dcd6b5af
- Financial mathematics of fidelity bonds: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/87ebbcbb639686057a389acb9ab3e25b
- Twitter: @chris_belcher_
- Reddit: /u/belcher_
- Email: belcher@riseup.net
- Github: github.com/chris-belcher/
- P2P trading exchanges list: https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges/
Other relevant episodes:
- SLP165 Rafael Yakobi Should CoinJoin users be flagged? Is Privacy Illegal?
- SLP149 WAXWING – Is Consumerism At Odds With Privacy in Bitcoin? JoinMarket, PayJoin, Snicker
- SLP58 Chris Belcher – Defending Bitcoin Privacy
- SLP150 Samorai Wallet - Make Every Bitcoin Spend a CoinJoin
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