21.5 Bitcoin Privacy Stepping Stones || Alex Gladstein
Wasabi Wallet
On Wasabi Wallet, Gladstein outlines privacy stepping stones between surveillance and anonymity: Strike partitions transaction data (banks see payment to Strike, not the merchant); gift-card flows chain information gaps (cash → CVS → Paxful → Bitcoin). These 'halfway technologies' exploit KYC boundaries and party asymmetry rather than cryptography, as evidenced in Alborg's study of Nigerian diaspo
https://relay.towardsliberty.com/1531009e4e805e8051b010b2f2394d6aa6dfbf9d8638d4ba324d03e6d8b675dc.mp4
Wasabi Wallet
On Wasabi Wallet, Gladstein outlines privacy stepping stones between surveillance and anonymity: Strike partitions transaction data (banks see payment to Strike, not the merchant); gift-card flows chain information gaps (cash → CVS → Paxful → Bitcoin). These 'halfway technologies' exploit KYC boundaries and party asymmetry rather than cryptography, as evidenced in Alborg's study of Nigerian diaspo
https://relay.towardsliberty.com/1531009e4e805e8051b010b2f2394d6aa6dfbf9d8638d4ba324d03e6d8b675dc.mp4