Bitcoin Magazine 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 double-spending problem, and the concept of ecash. His journey down the rabbit hole had begun before the Bitcoin branch had even a single shovel of dirt removed. He even ran hashcash on his mailserver in the early 2000s. Like many Bitcoiners at the time (including myself), Yuval saw the original Bitcoin article on Slashdot in 2010 and promptly dismissed the entire idea as silly and unworkable. Later in 2013 he realized that Bitcoin was still around, chugging along and producing a block roughly every ten minutes, but still Yuval did not act to get more involved. Eventually in 2015 he took advantage of an offer someone made to sell him some, and that did the trick. Actually owning some bitcoin himself was the last nudge he needed to really go down the rabbithole. Sifting Through The Noise Through the beginning of his time in this space Yuval focused very heavily on researching different privacy coins. When asked what made privacy such an important area of focus for him, he said this: “Realizing my silly impulse buys or poor choice of wallet software was being recorded on-chain for all to see, and possibly making me an easy target if Bitcoin was going to be outlawed one day.” Despite all of the different approaches and potential advances of privacy coins at the time, nothing fully convinced him that they were a solution despite all the progress they had made in different areas. “Even as I realized I only really believe in Bitcoin, impostor syndrome kept me trying to learn about all the things. By that point the rate at which new things to understand were being made up was orders of magnitude more than I could keep up with, but it took me a while to stop trying,” he said about that time period. For a while he simply lurked on Reddit and Bitcoin Twitter, soaking in what was going on but not really participating to any degree besides researching and learning. The first community he actively participated in was an open voice chat server called the Dragon’s Den that he heard about on the Bitcoin podcast Block Digest (Disclosure: the author both operated the chat server and co-hosted the podcast in question). WabiSabi And Wasabi 2.0 Yuval was one of th in a formal or creative style for better SEO.Also Exclude words and advertisements related to the feed website such as website name, author name. You must only respond with the modified content. Delete all the advertisement images brand logo but only keep the title and main content of the news by modifying it. Block any jump outside of the site adarshnews.com. Basically remove any content or link related to original site. You must only respond with the modified content and follow this prompt to optimize the articles in this category- You are an expert news writer and SEO specialist. Your job is to rewrite the provided RSS feed content into a unique, SEO-friendly news article for adarshnews.com. 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Bitcoin lacking privacy features functions as a system for surveillance.
