Can you give us an update on Schnorr, Taproot, Graftroot, MAST, and script validation? [Note: This summary is from December.]

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-December/016556.html

CORRECTION: While he was quoting Rusty Russell, the post I mentioned at 0:14 was written by another Bitcoin Core contributor, Anthony Towns.

What are your thoughts on privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin? We shouldn’t only want privacy when it is too late. Stagnation in this area may be worse than reckless experimentation. Will people sacrifice privacy for good user experience? There is a difference between George Orwell’s and Aldous Huxley’s versions of totalitarianism. As long as we have the ability to opt-out, laziness is a luxury you have when they’re not shooting at you.

These questions are from the December Patreon Q&A session, and the community event at Paseo la Plaza in Buenos Aires, Argentina (https://antonopoulos.com/event/buenos-aires-event/), which took place on December 15th 2018 and January 29th 2019 respectively.

RELATED:
Worse than Useless: Financial Surveillance – https://youtu.be/n4F-h4xuXMk
Money as a System-of-Control – https://youtu.be/FyK4P7ZdOK8
The Stories We Tell About Money – https://youtu.be/ONvg9SbauMg
Bitcoin: Privacy, Identity, Surveillance and Money – https://youtu.be/Vcvl5piGlYg
ADISummit: Self-Sovereign Identity Panel – https://youtu.be/DZbyiJqKT8c
How is fungibility tied to privacy? – https://youtu.be/VuI-8EwqIS8
Public keys versus addresses – https://youtu.be/8es3qQWkEiU
Re-using addresses – https://youtu.be/4A3urPFkx8g
PayNyms / reusable payment codes – https://youtu.be/Qmc1ubPVhnQ
Airdrop coins and privacy implications – https://youtu.be/JHRnqJJ0rhc
Wallet design and mass adoption – https://youtu.be/WbZX6BDZJHc
How do I choose a wallet? – https://youtu.be/tN6b62sEpsY
Using paper wallets – https://youtu.be/cKehFazo8Pw
Exchanges, identity, and surveillance – https://youtu.be/TVFy8xXfxAA
The price of losing privacy – https://youtu.be/2G8IgiLbT_4
Layered scaling and privacy – https://youtu.be/4w-bjUhpf_Q
Coin selection and privacy – https://youtu.be/3Ck683CQGAQ
Lightning and onion routing – https://youtu.be/D-nKuInDq6g
SegWit and fork research – https://youtu.be/OorLoi01KEE
MimbleWimble and Schnorr signatures – https://youtu.be/qloq75ekxv0
Mixing services – https://youtu.be/rKoMvOH4zoY
Borderless money – https://youtu.be/EZh1-ZqffOw
Will governments let privacy coins exist? – https://youtu.be/30sjEW70rLE
Differences between Grin and Beam? – https://youtu.be/SojKwudx1TI

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21 COMMENTS

  1. "its not that I have anything to hide, I just don't have anything I want you to see". BE SAFE PEOPLE. Never reveal your identity to anyone or anything online. Never use your real name on FaceBook or Google. Always use prepaid credit cards purchased with cash if you need to buy anything online. Never fill out DMV forms, medical or car insurance, job applications or anything online. Read all privacy statements, and terms of use before doing any business with anyone. Never let yourself be photographed and tagged with your real name. Privacy is fleeting, The more you give in, the less freedoms you'll have. Fight for you constitutional rights to travel freely without having to pay anything for "Real ID", drivers license etc. Millions of gallons of blood was spilled for your freedom, don't let it slip away!

  2. All human behaviour in modern times is controlled by a "hierarchy" of 5 MYTHS! Myth 1. RELIGION ( belief in someone's version of right and wrong, good and bad – with "Fear Narrative" Do the right thing and you will be rewarded in some mythical place and you will be punished if you stop believing) – Then, as people questioned this "Blind Faith" system, it was immediately backed up with the second myth in the hierarchy; Myth 2. LAW – As faith failed to control people, force was used to get people to comply. Myth 3. MONEY for food and to pay those enforcing the law (false trust) and spreading religious nonsense. Myth 4. "THE NATION STATE" wrap people in a flag and tell them the "others" (Wrapped in other flags with different religion, laws and who (usually) "want your stuff" and change the way you live (Liberty threat) are "coming to get you". so you need to fight for your "rights" (which we also invented). This required the 5th Myth – OWNERSHIP; How can a human own a piece of a 4.5 billion year old planet that no one has any "right" to above any other? If I take something from you by force is it mine? Historical conquests and even as far back to when we were forager hunters 200 000 years ago (which we were for 93% of our existence remember!) does not mean we "own" the land and can pass it on for generations because someone won a battle for some king or leader? How stupid! Says who? MYTHS! all of it.

    (Quite brilliant, BUT, it's only as real as we choose to make it, we invented it, we can end it

  3. That was perfect description. It would be nearly impossible to win over "facebook coin" in developed countries when they are more or less stable, but atleast now you have an exit from that corrupted system if you wish/need. You are not the first that realized the huge appeal of things like facebook coin in developed countries, i heard that recently from Charles Hoskinson also. You both are very smart people with big impact.

  4. This was a great one, Andreas. Very glad to hear that privacy is going to improve for Bitcoin users. And it seems true that a subtle, unnoticed infringement can be more dangerous in the long-term than a loud, in-your-face attempt at domination, which tends to make its own costs apparent and people can at least see the problem. Ordinary betrayal is scary but it's also mundane; far more terrifying is betrayal that you can't see.

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