Adam Ficsor (nopara73), a Bitcoin privacy developer and CTO of zkSNACKs joins me to talk about his new wallet, Wasabi Wallet. We talk about:
Privacy being for everyone
Comparison with other privacy projects, such as Monero, or other Bitcoin mixing services
ZeroLink framework
How your Bitcoin Privacy can be broken
How chain analysis works
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Oct 8
Seed Phrases vs Key Sharding: Multisig's UX Trade-offs | Setzeus SLP781
Setzeus argues that 90% of people will never properly use seed phrases and hardware wallets, and that services like Privy and Turnkey, which split a key behind an email or phone login, are a good-enough floor for self-custody. Stephan pushes back on what that gives up: verifiabil ... Show More
43m 19s
Oct 5
Smarter Web's Capital Structure and MORE Preferred | Andrew Webley SLP780
Andrew Webley walks through Smarter Web's capital structure—ordinary shares as growth equity, a repaid short convert, Coinbase credit, and MORE as the income preferred.Webley is CEO of The Smarter Web Company (LSE: SWC), the UK's largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury. He trace ... Show More
44m 39s
Nov 2023
Ameen Soleimani of Privacy Pools | Unpacking Privacy Pools – Motivations, Mechanics, and Tradeoffs
The Hashing it Out team speaks with Ameen Soleimani, co-author of the Privacy Pools paper - Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium. Ameen, along with Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Jacob Illum (Chainalysis), Matthias Nadler (Universi ... Show More
1h 16m
Jan 2024
Robin Linus of ZeroSync & BITVM.ORG | Pioneering Proof Systems, Adoption in Bitcoin
Corey, D, and Jesse sit down with Robin Linus of ZeroSync – the team spearheading the development of proof systems for Bitcoin for scalability, interoperability, and privacy. Robin discusses everything from the recently published BitVM white paper, challenges and tradeoffs of val ... Show More
1h 25m
Nov 2023
Jordi Baylina of Polygon zkEVM | Zero Knowledge, Privacy, Scalability and Building Useful Technology
The Hashing it Out team sits down with Jordi Baylina to discuss everything from his involvement in the Catalan Independence Movement, DApp Node, and Giveth to technical details associated in bringing privacy and compression to zk proofs via recursion.
1h 4m
Jan 2022
How Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Taproot Upgrade Work to Make It More Private
On today’s show, Alyssa Hertig, programmer and journalist specializing in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, dives into bitcoin’s not-so-private present and how that could change.
Read the story here.
This episode is sponsored by Kava.
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