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Aug 2021
1h 12m

SLP300 Adam Back Bitcoin, Privacy & Cens...

STEPHAN LIVERA
About this episode

Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, cryptographer and privacy advocate, inventor of Hashcash and cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper rejoins me on the show. We chat:

  • Regulatory environment for Bitcoin vs building
  • ‘Crypto wars’ in the 90s
  • Proof of Work
  • Bitcoin privacy
  • Confidential Transactions in Liquid and for Bitcoin
  • Trade offs involved
  • Blockstream satellite base station
  • Bitcoin development

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