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BITCOIN SEASON 2: 5 Essential Privacy Tips For Bitcoin
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Satsie from PayJoin Foundation explains why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, covers essential privacy tools like address management, VPNs, and running nodes, plus discusses PayJoin batching and silent payments for better on-chain privacy.
Satsie, board member of PayJoin Foundation joins us to talk about Bitcoin privacy fundamentals. We cover why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, essential privacy practices like avoiding address reuse and hardware wallet shipping risks, the importance of running your own node, and advanced tools like PayJoin transaction batching and silent payments for enhanced on-chain privacy.
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**Notes:**
• Bitcoin requires KYC through exchanges
• Address reuse is "really, really bad"
• Hardware wallets shipped to homes create risk
• PayJoin needs 5% network adoption minimum
• Node sync takes "couple days" currently
• Silent payments require blockchain scanning
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:24 Who is Satsie?
04:24 How private is Bitcoin?
06:06 Privacy is hard
07:58 Basic BTC privacy techniques
10:50 VPNs
11:57 Running a node
15:13 You are using somebody's node
17:28 What is Payjoin?
19:59 When would we use Payjoin?
21:10 Payjoin adoption
22:45 Multi-party Payjoin
23:54 Silent Payments
27:16 Current US privacy regulations
29:00 Soft forks
31:06 Resources
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👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!
Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here.
Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]
3543 episodes
Manage episode 504606563 series 2401578
Satsie from PayJoin Foundation explains why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, covers essential privacy tools like address management, VPNs, and running nodes, plus discusses PayJoin batching and silent payments for better on-chain privacy.
Satsie, board member of PayJoin Foundation joins us to talk about Bitcoin privacy fundamentals. We cover why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, essential privacy practices like avoiding address reuse and hardware wallet shipping risks, the importance of running your own node, and advanced tools like PayJoin transaction batching and silent payments for enhanced on-chain privacy.
Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com
**Notes:**
• Bitcoin requires KYC through exchanges
• Address reuse is "really, really bad"
• Hardware wallets shipped to homes create risk
• PayJoin needs 5% network adoption minimum
• Node sync takes "couple days" currently
• Silent payments require blockchain scanning
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:24 Who is Satsie?
04:24 How private is Bitcoin?
06:06 Privacy is hard
07:58 Basic BTC privacy techniques
10:50 VPNs
11:57 Running a node
15:13 You are using somebody's node
17:28 What is Payjoin?
19:59 When would we use Payjoin?
21:10 Payjoin adoption
22:45 Multi-party Payjoin
23:54 Silent Payments
27:16 Current US privacy regulations
29:00 Soft forks
31:06 Resources
-
👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!
Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here.
Questions or want to sponsor? [email protected]
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