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DISCUSSION: How Can Public Blockchains Have Privacy?
On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now.

The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Today we're asking: how can public blockchains have privacy?
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On today's show:
- How can public blockchains have privacy?
- The decreasing cost of passive surveillance
- MimbleWimble research Attack, Developer Response, and Alternative Implementation Response
- Gossip protocols and the stasi model
- Skin in the game with proof of work
- The moving target and the arms race
Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com & eToro.com
- Obscuring origins and game theory security
- Breaking links with lightning and other layer-2s
- Adversarial relationships are economic in nature
- Attacks in theory vs. practice
- Security through obscurity?
- Researchers, cryptographers and state level actors
- and more...
Let’s Talk Bitcoin! is a long-running independent podcast on the ideas, people and projects powering the cryptocurrency narrative. On this show, we basically talk about everything other than the price.
Since we started this conversation in early 2013, a whole world of blockchains and tokens has sprung up alongside bitcoin, and we talk about those too as real-world events help us see what’s real and what’s just clever marketing.
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Episode 420 (How can public blockchains have privacy) Credits:
Hosts:
- Adam B. Levine (http://ltbshow.com)
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos (https://aantonop.com/)
- Stephanie Murphy (https://www.stephaniemurphyvoice.com/)
- Jonathan Mohan ( https://twitter.com/JonathanMohan)
Other Staff
- Producer - Adam B. Levine
- Editor - Jonas
- Music (Theme) - Jared Rubens
- Music (Other) - General Fuzz
Adam B. Levine
Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017. With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.
