Reuben Yap is the Project Steward of Firo (formerly Zcoin), which is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.
The world moving toward cashless society. This means that 100% of transactions traced, surveilled and censored. Privacy of financial transactions will be more and more important and harder to achieve. Reuben shares his knowledge on current state of privacy cryptocurrencies, why bitcoin is not private but steps to use Bitcoin more privately, updates from the Firo team and many other reasons for why people should care more about their privacy.
Reuben is incredibly knowledgeable about this topic. Enjoy!
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Show Notes
0:00:00 Welcome and context
0:02:00 What is your background and how did you get into crypto?
0:05:30 Why is privacy so impart to you?
0:08:45 Why should average people care about privacy?
0:13:30 What do you tell to people that think Bitcoin is private?
0:16:01 Best practices for privacy of Bitcoin
0:21:00 What are the different privacy technologies?
0:25:10 Risks associated with implementing new privacy technologies
0:29:23 How do you think through regulations with privacy crypto?
0:36:31 What are the common mistakes people make with privacy coins?
0:39:09 Privacy as a feature of Bitcoin
0:44:31 What's on the roadmap for Firo?
0:50:00 Where can people find out more about you?
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