#170: Chris Belcher
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss:
- JoinMarket
- Fidelity Bonds
- Chain analysis heuristics
- Chris' CoinSwap design
- A "privacy threshold"
- Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins
- much more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, freaks, it's your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt. |
| 0:05.4 | Matt and I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with Chris Belcher, the man behind Join |
| 0:10.2 | Market, and the recent design implementation of CoinSwap, which he is currently working on. |
| 0:17.6 | And he is being supported by the Human Rights Foundation. |
| 0:22.0 | News just dropped a few minutes ago before recording this ad. |
| 0:25.9 | This news dropped after we recorded this episode, |
| 0:28.1 | so we did not cover that in the episode, |
| 0:30.8 | but we did talk about dev funding towards the end, |
| 0:34.9 | and it is very encouraging to see that the Human Rights Foundation |
| 0:39.2 | has stepped up and provided Chris with a grant to work on this |
| 0:42.9 | coin swap implementation specifically. |
| 0:46.3 | So kudos to HRF for putting the team on their back here. |
| 0:50.6 | This episode of Tales from the Crypt is brought to you by our good friends |
| 0:53.9 | at the cash app. |
| 0:59.0 | I hope you do many things. They're helping you stack sats, send sats, receive sats, sell sats, if you so please. On top of that, they're doing incredible things on the banking front. You can now use cash app as your bank account. It has |
| 1:13.1 | an account number and a routing number. You can start getting your paychecks direct deposited |
| 1:18.8 | into the cash app and it's becoming a neo-bank, a new bank where you can send your paychecks |
| 1:24.3 | there, have them directly deposited, start stacking sats. |
| 1:31.4 | Then also, if you want to, if you're a stonk picker out there, seems to be a lot of stock pickers out there these days. |
| 1:33.1 | Stock market going crazy, going mad. |
| 1:35.6 | And it's, if you want to do that, cash app investing is letting you stack slivers of stonks. |
| 1:41.7 | You don't have to buy a whole stonk. |
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