As our lives get further thrust into the digital realm, what we need more than ever is robust digital security to protect the increased activity we’re doing online. Unfortunately we're actually going backwards. Surveillance has become normalized, and people were never given the opportunity to opt in to this increased tracking. This is what Adam Back, Blockstream CEO, said in an interview with me at the Satoshi Roundtable earlier this year.
Unfortunately the internet is not nearly private enough, and not nearly decentralized enough. To help solve this, his company built a Satellite that gives people more privacy for their bitcoin transactions and also helps freedom of speech.
Adam and I discuss how the Satellite works, why it's important, and whether it is possible to take back control of the internet and try to preserve some private space in our digital lives.
Full 1-hr interview with Adam Back available on my "NBTV Members" page.
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00:54 Blockstream Satellite and privacy
03:47 Freedom of Speech
05:58 What you need to use the Satellite
06:41 Macro Decentralization through competition
08:00 Resilience and Redundancy
09:13 LBRY
09:21 Bitcoin: the PayPal disruptor
11:09 Power of controlling your own money
11:52 Digital Cash, and how society never opted in to changing privacy norms,
13:13 Bitcoin Privacy
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Recommended Books:
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
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What has the government done to our money - Rothbard
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Naomi's Privacy Bag: some of my favorite products to help protect your privacy!
Use the Brave browser! https://brave.com/nao076
USB-C to ethernet adapter:
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Lightening to ethernet adapter:
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