SLP300 Adam Back Bitcoin, Privacy & Censorship Resistance
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 300
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Episode description
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
Previous episode:
Sponsors:
- Swan Bitcoin
- Hodl Hodl Lend
- Compass Mining
- Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
- CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
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