Bitcoin Without Privacy Is A Surveillance System

Builder: Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch)

Language(s): Rust, C#, Go, Python

Contribute(s/ed) To: rust-payjoin, WabiSabi/Wasabi 2.0, General Privacy Research

Work(s/ed) At: Spiral (currently), zkSNACKS (formerly)

Yuval had an interest in subjects related to Bitcoin far before it was actually birthed into the world. A lifetime software developer and technology enthusiast, as well as a general purpose autist, he first became interested in cryptographic technology around 2002. 

His father attended a talk by Adi Shamir, the famous cryptographer who co-invented the RSA signature scheme, on ecash. A father-son conversation later and Yuval was now aware of linkable ring signatures, the…

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