How To Make Private Transactions, & Why It's Crucial

Financial privacy is essential for a free society, because it allows us to support causes we believe in without fear of retribution, to flee dangerous situations without being tracked, to live our daily lives without feeling like every choice we make is on display and needs to be self-censored.

How can we have a truly free society if the way we interact with the world around us is constantly monitored and controlled? But that's exactly what's going on right now. In this presentation I explain how surveillance of the traditional financial system works, and what solutions there are for reclaiming your right to financial privacy.

00:00 Financial Privacy Is Crucial for a Free Society
2:22 Traditional Financial System is Controlled, Censored, and Monitored
3:29 Talk Overview
5:38 Everyone Is Selling Your Financial Data
6:42 People Are Persecuted Because Their Payments Are Monitored
8:42 History of Financial Surveillance
13:02 3rd-Party Doctrine
14:07 Cash
17:59 Bitcoin
18:40 Cryptocurrencies are NOT private!
19:53 Tip #1: Use Privacy Coins
26:20 Tip #2: No Pass-Through Privacy
29:11 Tip #3: Break Up Patterns
33:57 Tip #4: Protect Against OSINT Privacy Leaks
39:23 Tip #5: Beware of Active Analysis Tricks
44:55 Alternative Financial Systems ARE The Answer
47:03 Audience Q&A

Traditional privacy tools like cash continue to dwindle in relevance, but cryptocurrencies like privacy coins present themselves as torchbearers of financial privacy in this new digital era.

But the level of privacy you get is contingent upon the choices you make -- it's not enough to use things like privacy coins, you have to know how to use them properly.

Special Thanks to Zcon for inviting me to speak!

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