“Privacy isn’t a thing. Instead, think about information leakage. They are opposites.

Bitcoin gave us decentralization at the cost of dramatic leakage of information.

Decoys don’t solve the problem.

You can’t add privacy to fix leakage. You have to build strong security into the foundation.”

— Live at Priv8 hosted by Orchid OXT

One response to “Zooko Wilcox on Payment Privacy”

  1. To demonstrate the weakness of decoys and obfuscation, he used the example of a sex toy shop in Saudi Arabia. "This is not made up; this really happened."

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