I don't practice Sayloria, I ain't got no moonboi goal,

If I had a million bitcoins... but I'd burn it all!

If I could find Satoshi

And those coins that he mined

Well I'd tell him "make them private!"

And I'd slap him down!

What I really wanna know, my plebby

What I really wanna say, I will define

It's privacy I need, mmmm

My soul will have to wait till I get back to find Satoshi, get privacy of my own.

Watch this today if you want to learn more about the future of Bitcoin privacy!

https://www.youtube.com/live/f8aNWuBNnik?si=trYteCef8gImQGxl

In 1 hour I will go live with Robin Linus, Jonas Nick & Liam Eagen to talk about Satoshi Nakamoto’s favorite scaling and privacy solution: shielded client side validation!

Be there or stay square!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aNWuBNnik

According to HBO, I’ve interviewed Satoshi Nakamoto 5 times on my podcast.

Anyway, don’t miss today’s livestream interview with @robin_linus @liameagen @n1ckler at 8 PM CET/1 PM EST.

They will talk about shielded client side validation, one of Peter Todd’s ideas 🤯

Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/f8aNWuBNnik?feature=shared

Upcoming Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes:

– David Burkett talks about MWEB and the kind of privacy it brings with only a soft fork

– Robin Linus, Jonas Nick, Liam Eagen on their new Shielded Client Side Validation paper and what it means for Bitcoin privacy

Just in case you were wondering, my girlfriend cooked lamb with potatoes and carrots 🥕

Hope you’re having a lovely Sunday too!

Speaking of implementing Lighting, Decred has built a much more reliable version of it which has nearly 0% failed payments.

They also have base layer privacy.

Haven’t heard anyone in Bitcoin speaking about it.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jKDJ06Pgu9A?si=4XjrrWAgQYCCGfAs

I don’t make a living off of these posts and I wouldn’t qualify them as “articles” either.

I get it, you got triggered. But shooting the messenger due to cherry picked details won’t improve the underlying issue.

Serious question: did you ever listen to my podcast or read one of my long-form articles?

Read chapter 10 of the Bitcoin whitepaper and Satoshi’s comments on ZK proofs from this Bitcoin Talk thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg9074#msg9074

Looks like the future of money, that my mom will be able to use.

Yes, they are much better at the local level.

This has to be the cheapest shot I’ve ever received.

I’ve written hundreds of articles over the last 7 years without stirring up any drama and I’ve published more than 200 interviews that didn’t upset anyone.

I can count the controversial moments on one hand. nostr:note1rgz03wp6072zk2sve23m4slntadvudh9jxufp887e26p5u7gld4qdfefy5

I’m fine, thanks.

There’s CashFusion on BCH. It inspired WabiSabi (the protocol behind Wasabi 2.0).

Roger was also the first investor in Zcash, which produced some really useful research in the field of ZK proofs. Today we have ZK rollup proposals on Bitcoin because of this little science project.

I get your point, but people aren’t entirely good or evil. Your question actually has a couple of good answers.

Sir, that’s pee.

Thanks for the explanation, Sjors! I was wondering: why don’t you join my show to explain why Bitcoin doesn’t have better privacy to provide fungibility to the monetary asset?

Or better yet, explain why nothing out there (including Zcash’s Halo2 and MWEB) is good enough for Bitcoin. So that nobody ever assumes negligence or malevolence when it comes to protocol development, granted that the reasons are purely technical.

Money that has no privacy is money that will be stolen away from you.

Monero wallets are optimized to sync from the block height where the first incoming transaction happened.

Even light mobile wallets like Cake will download block filters to avoid reliance on any Electrum-type of server.

They also use a BIP39-style backup as default in all wallets including the full node/CPU mining one.

Maybe you should give it a try, the amount of progress that they made is really impressive.

What you cannot hide, someone will steal from you.