State of User Sovereignty
We sit down with some wallet legends to talk about the state of sovereignty in the bitcoin self-custody space
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Privacy is Censorship Resistance: Why Payjoin Matters for Sovereignty
In Bitcoin, censorship resistance depends on privacy: if transactions are transparent, it becomes trivial to blacklist, surveil, and suppress. The freedom to transact is necessary for free speech and assembly. Without the ability to spend, how can anyone publish writing or acquire transit to a meeting? This talk explores how Payjoin brings privacy-by-default to Bitcoin. Unlike other tech, Payjoin’s steganographic transaction looks ordinary while undermining surveillance heuristics to resist selective censorship. We’ll look at how Payjoin Foundation and the Payjoin Dev Kit (PDK) integrations make this privacy a practical default for wallets and services today. Finally, we’ll preview the consequences of next-genration Payjoin (v3) designs, which even keep knowledge of your addresses from your transaction counterparties.