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Analysis of Bitcoin privacy practices, wallet models, surveillance risks, and emerging techniques for stronger on-chain and network-level privacy.

Payments Friction, Custody Risk, and the Nostr Parallel

Payments Friction, Custody Risk, and the Nostr Parallel

The September 16, 2025 episode of the Archie Podcast features Martti Malmi outlining how early trades anchored Bitcoin’s price discovery and how Nostr mirrors Bitcoin’s permissionless design for communications.

Censorship Risk, Fee Markets, and Practical Privacy in Bitcoin

Censorship Risk, Fee Markets, and Practical Privacy in Bitcoin

The July 30, 2024 episode of Ungovernable Misfits features Max Tannahill examining miner filtering, fee dynamics from ordinals, and user privacy stacks. Tannahill argues that normalizing the exclusion of inscriptions sets a precedent for broader policy lists as mining centralizes.

ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Trustless Scaling, Real UX, No Base-Layer Change

ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Trustless Scaling, Real UX, No Base-Layer Change

The August 05, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Source features David Seroy explaining how zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups can scale Bitcoin without base-layer changes.

The Criminalization of Privacy and Bitcoin’s Legal Future

The Criminalization of Privacy and Bitcoin’s Legal Future

The August 07, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Magazine podcast features Peter Van Valkenburgh analyzing the Tornado Cash guilty verdict against Roman Storm. He explains how the court’s expansive definition of money transmission contradicts FinCEN’s 2019 guidance and undermines due process.

Balancing Bitcoin’s Cultural Roots with Financialization Pressures

Balancing Bitcoin’s Cultural Roots with Financialization Pressures

The July 21, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Thomas Pacchia examining how Bitcoin’s increasing integration with corporate treasuries, ETFs, and Wall Street narratives could erode its founding ethos of privacy, self-sovereignty, and “freedom money.”

One-Click Federated Custody with Fedimint 0.7

One-Click Federated Custody with Fedimint 0.7

The April 24, 2025 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Fedimint creators Eric Sirion and Joschi explaining how version 0.7 slashes deployment friction through Iroh networking, LNURL support, and a single-binary release.

Freedom‑Money or Regulated Asset? Bitcoin’s Next Decade

Freedom‑Money or Regulated Asset? Bitcoin’s Next Decade

The April 22 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Matt Odell warning that Bitcoin could become a regulated asset class unless privacy‑first adoption keeps pace with ETFs and stablecoins.