The Bitcoin Brief Goes LIVE | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 79

About this episode

The episode discusses the latest news in Bitcoin, including legal issues surrounding Tornado Cash and a new proposal to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing threats.

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Prime Time reminder (FTF + Week 3) Vegas coming up NEWS Roman Storm Acquittal?? - The Rage Rule 29 hearing in SDNY. Retrial dates floated: Oct, Nov, Jan 2027. Gov theory: running Tornado Cash was criminal, but mixers aren't illegal and it wasn't criminal at inception. Failla: so when did liability start? Gov collapsed UI and protocol. Claimed Tornado Cash itself transferred funds — user wallets as "instrumentalities." Only 15% of volume was illicit across the charged period. Failla to prosecutor: "I might argue you were doing better before you started talking." BIP-361 - Link New proposal from Jameson Lopp and others (submitted 14 April) to protect Bitcoin from future quantum computers. Quantum computers could one day crack the cryptography Bitcoin uses today (ECDSA/Schnorr). BIP-361 forces everyone to move to new quantum-safe address types before that happens. Two phases: first, you can't send to old-style addresses. Five years later, old-style coins can't be spent at all. If you haven't moved your coins by then, they're frozen. Controversial because…

People in this episode

Hosts: Max, Q

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• privacy
• open source tech
• quantum computing
• legal news
• cryptography

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Tornado Cash
• quantum computing
• BIP-361
• cryptography
• legal news
• privacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tornado Cash, BitMEX, SDNY, Bitcoin, AOB Prime Time

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