Watchman Privacy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Paul Rosenberg for a fifth time. They discuss the moral, anarchic, and technological questions that continue to define our world.
 
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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:45 – Clone thought experiment
3:40 – Digital ID
8:30 – Samourai Wallet
12:40 – Judges the biggest part of the problem of government?
16:30 – The Simple Web
20:50 – Wikipedia a decentralist failure?
25:00 – Laissez Faire city failure
32:00 – Quantum Computing
34:05 – Anarchy has no ways to fight off evil
42:50 – Are "defense stocks" immoral
48:50 – VPNs
55:00 – Final thoughts

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Episode 222 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – The Psychopath Duology
 
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Hillebrand about Nostr: a censorship-resistant social media protocol.
 
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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
4:15 – Max Hillebrand's nomad lifestyle
7:35 – Current status of Germany
8:50 – Overview of Nostr
12:30 – Problems with traditional social media
16:10 – Shadow banning and opaque rules distort reality
18:55 – Where did Mastodon go wrong?
20:05 – Which is the biggest thing Nostr has achieved so far?
22:45 – How to run Nostr
27:55 – What are you responsible for as a Nostr user?
31:20 – How do we follow people on Nostr
32:40 – Where does content get hosted?
35:00 – Balance between user-friendly and sovereign
36:45 – Hardcore privacy on Nostr
39:50 – Is Nostr full of only Bitcoin talk?
44:05 – Ongoing maintenance of Nostr
46:30 – Do you have to be in Lightning to use Nostr
49:50 – Quality of life problems
54:00 – Other interesting aspects of Nostr
57:00 – What does censorship-resistance mean?
1:01:20 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, one of the handful of Bitcoiners who believes in the original vision of the project, and one of the handful of people in the world who actually uses Bitcoin.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:05 – What was the significance of Samourai Wallet in Bitcoin?
8:05 – Upcoming Bitcoin conference – any hope?
14:40 – Latest from Bill (TdevD)
20:50 – BIP-361
25:55 – The BIP process is not Bitcoin
35:10 – BIP-110
40:05 – Worse example of a Bitcoin podcast episode or article
44:22 – Who is worse for sound money: Luke DashJr or Jerome Powell?
47:18 – Opinion on Bitcoin company Strike
50:30 – Max's BIP-47 suggestion
1:09:10 – Is flying the English flag racist?
1:12:30 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio