CD75: Privacy, Speech, and Bitcoin with Adam Back
support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donateEPISODE: 75BLOCK: 753062PRICE: 5258 sats per dollarTOPICS: tornado cash sanctions, crypto wars of the 90s, code is speech, anonymous contributors, liquid, fedimints, confidential transactions, mining Adam on Twitternew to nostr? try https://primal.netnostr live chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/streamnostr account: https://primal.net/odellyoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@citadeldispatchpodcast: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatchstream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/(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