Chris Belcher rejoins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Surveillance companies, and what risks they present to Bitcoin. We also talk about JoinMarket fidelity bonds.

Chain surveillance techniques
Downsides for Bitcoin
What to do about it
“Just Use Monero” is insufficient
PayJoin & P2EP
Fidelity Bonds - how they work
Benefits and costs

Chris Belcher Links:

Joinmarket donation page: https://bitcoinprivacy.me/joinmarket-donations
Fidelity bond doc: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/18ea0e6acdb885a2bfbdee43dcd6b5af
Financial mathematics of fidelity bonds: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/87ebbcbb639686057a389acb9ab3e25b
Twitter: @chris_belcher_
Reddit: /u/belcher_
Email: belcher@riseup.net
Github: github.com/chris-belcher/
P2P trading exchanges list: https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges/

Other relevant episodes:

SLP165 Rafael Yakobi Should CoinJoin users be flagged? Is Privacy Illegal?
SLP149 WAXWING – Is Consumerism At Odds With Privacy in Bitcoin? JoinMarket, PayJoin, Snicker
SLP58 Chris Belcher – Defending Bitcoin Privacy
SLP150 Samorai Wallet - Make Every Bitcoin Spend a CoinJoin

Sponsor links:

Kraken
Unchained Capital
SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Subscribe to the podcast
Patreon @stephanlivera

SLP167 Chris Belcher - What’s The Problem With Bitcoin Surveillance?

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