S5 E6: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet, P2EP, Samourai & Bitcoin Privacy

Published: May 1, 2020, 3:09 a.m.

b"Wasabi Wallet creator and lead developer explains how P2EP (Pay to End Point) can make blockchain analysis obsolete, but also expresses his views on Bitcoin security and why you probably shouldn't use Samourai Wallet. Episode Time Stamps: 00:00 \\u2013 Introduction 02:06 \\u2013 What are CoinJoins and how are today\\u2019s mixing services different from the tumblers of the old days? 03:55 \\u2013 What is P2EP (Pay to End Point)? 5:30 \\u2013 What is the origins of P2EP? 08:20 \\u2013 PayJoin and how it originates from BustaPay 09:20 \\u2013 Samourai\\u2019s Cahoots or Stoveaway transactions, and why they\\u2019re PayJoins but not PayToEndPoints 11:02 \\u2013 Why P2EP has more potential than PayJoins 12:00 \\u2013 Cool negotiations that can be done between parties when sending Pay to End Point (P2EP) transactions 13:50 \\u2013 Why P2EP helps a lot of bitcoiners\\u2019 privacy, but not everyone\\u2019s 14:15 \\u2013 CoinJoins vs P2EP in terms of efficiency to reach privacy 15:00 \\u2013 Why P2EP doesn\\u2019t directly improve your privacy, but tricks blockchain analysis 16:30 \\u2013 CoinJoins are identifiable 17:45 \\u2013 Is Wasabi Wallet censorship resistant? 19:42 \\u2013 The 3 issues of building electronic money, according to cypherpunk literature 22:10 \\u2013 Bitcoin privacy vs fungibility 23:05 \\u2013 Wasabi\\u2019s new mixing technology 25:40 \\u2013 Which desktop and mobile wallet does Nopara recommend to a newbie? 27:40 \\u2013 Discussion on Blockstream Green 28:31 \\u2013 Wasabi vs JoinMarket vs Samourai 29:48 \\u2013 Don\\u2019t use Samourai 33:30 \\u2013 Why Wasabi requires more BTC to enter CoinJoins than Samourai 36:30 \\u2013 What is planned for the Wasabi Wallet UX? 36:50 \\u2013 Wasabi hired a cryptographer named Istvan Seres who is as knowledgeable as Greg Maxwell 38:10 \\u2013 What is next for Nopara? 40:50 \\u2013 Wasabi getting involved in Pay to End Point with BTCPay Server 41:50 \\u2013 Can Liquid improve CoinJoins? 43:55 \\u2013 Will Bitcoin privacy happen in side chains, or should the base layer get fixed? 45:30 \\u2013 Wasabi\\u2019s hardware wallet integration 47:58 \\u2013 Was Samson Mow right about CoinJoins being tainted correct? Is it justified to speak of Pay to End Point as opposed to PayJoins? 49:34 \\u2013 P2EP and PayJoin need new and different names? 49:58 \\u2013 Who can we trust, what should we verify? 52:30 \\u2013 Bitstein\\u2019s presentation from BigBlockBoom where he referenced Schopenhauer\\u2019s \\u201cThe Art of Controversy\\u201d to distinguish between rhetoric and dialectics"