Podcasts: How can public blockchains have privacy? | LTB #420 Dec 8, 2019 🔗 4 years ago

On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now.

Select Shownotes:

How can public blockchains have privacy?
The decreasing cost of passive surveillance
MimbleWimble research Attack, Developer Response, and Alternative Implementation Response
Gossip Protocols and The Stasi Model
Skin in the game with Proof of Work
The moving target and the arms race
Obscuring origins and game theory security
Breaking links with lightning and other layer-2s
Adversarial relationships are economic in nature
Attacks in theory vs. practice
Security through obscurity?
Researchers, cryptographers and state level actors
and more...

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Episode 420 (How can public blockchains have privacy) Credits:

Sponsors - Brave.com & eToro.com

Hosts:

Adam B. Levine (https://ltbshow.com)

Andreas M. Antonopoulos (https://aantonop.com/)

Stephanie Murphy (https://www.stephaniemurphyvoice.com/)

Jonathan Mohan ( https://twitter.com/JonathanMohan)

Other Staff

Producer - Adam B. Levine

Editor - Jonas

Music (Theme) - Jared Rubens