{"id":21630,"date":"2018-08-14T19:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe65301d26c3"},"modified":"2018-08-14T19:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:02:55","slug":"distributed-dialogues-weighing-privacy-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/distributed-dialogues-weighing-privacy-implications","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Dialogues: David Chaum, Patrick Byrne and Blockchain Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let\u2019s Talk Bitcoin Network<\/a> interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy.<\/p>\n

First, the team interviewed David Chaum<\/a>, one of the forefathers of cryptocurrency as we know it today. Starting from these humble beginnings, Chaum describes a brief history of the earliest days of digital money, as he built much of the enthusiasm for cryptography himself. His brief account of his work in the field gives a huge amount of insight into the culture and passion for privacy that eventually birthed modern cryptocurrency. <\/p>\n

Reuben Yap<\/a>, chief operating officer of ZCoin<\/a>, spoke about some of the cultural challenges in being the first real private cryptocurrency in Malaysia. <\/p>\n

Yap believes that the most important way to emphasize this concept of digital privacy to a skeptical audience is by putting the issue in financial terms. As Yap puts it, people expect a higher degree of privacy from banks regarding the value of their assets, and he believes that he can tap into this expectation on a greater scale. The platform of ZCoin ultimately seeks to give crypto financial systems an equal expectation of privacy that regular banks would, and this ambitious goal sets it apart.<\/p>\n

Finally, Patrick Byrne<\/a>, founder and CEO of Overstock.com<\/a>, talks about the path that led him to cryptocurrency as well as what he\u2019s observed entering the space as a mainstream investor. Seeing the overreach that many investment firms are capable of in securities trading, Byrne envisions a model of using blockchains to make transactions much more equitable. His experience provides a firm basis for a mistrust of current Wall Street practices, and a way to use blockchain smart contracts to enforce regulations on privacy.<\/p>\n

These interviews and more will be periodically available on the Let\u2019s Talk Bitcoin Network over the next several days as the team from Distributed Dialogues releases interviews on a great number of topics in the crypto space from the Distributed 2018 conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interviews on privacy in the cryptocurrency space with David Chaum, Reuben Yap and Patrick Byrne, hosted at Distributed 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2545,"featured_media":21631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2095,3482,3503,1739,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-21630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-david-chaum","9":"tag-ltb","10":"tag-patrick-byrne","11":"tag-podcasts","12":"tag-privacy"},"author_data":{"id":2545,"name":"Landon Manning","nicename":"landon-manning","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2749-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/distributed-dialogues-david-chaum.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}