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CD75: Privacy, Speech, and Bitcoin with Adam Back
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EPISODE: 75
BLOCK: 753062
PRICE: 5258 sats per dollar
TOPICS: tornado cash sanctions, crypto wars of the 90s, code is speech, anonymous contributors, liquid, fedimints, confidential transactions, mining
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(00:01:15) Introduction and funding of the podcast
(00:03:01) Ways to support the podcast
(00:04:18) Discussion about the Baltic Honey Badger conference
(00:56:43) Confidential transactions and their implementation
(00:57:51) CT implemented using simplicity and script size
(00:58:46) Fees for using confidential transactions
(01:00:13) Timeline for implementing simplicity and confidential transactions
(01:01:30) Bitcoin's resistance to change and the need for overwhelming support
(01:03:26) Federated Chaumian mint (Fedimint) and its potential
(01:06:44) Interoperability of Fedimint with lightning and liquid
(01:18:58) Blockstream's focus on mining and the acquisition of Spondoolies
(01:22:59) Estimating the percentage of energy consumption dedicated to Bitcoin mining in 50 years