Bitcoin Sovereignty
Honorable MentionsAlmost every merchant here in Taiwan accepts either cash or a strange national QR code. We’re making this QR code compatible with Bitcoin so you can spend Bitcoin almost everywhere in Taiwan.
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§01 · EVENT BADGES
§02 · HACKATHON PROJECTS
Almost every merchant here in Taiwan accepts either cash or a strange national QR code. We’re making this QR code compatible with Bitcoin so you can spend Bitcoin almost everywhere in Taiwan.
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§03 · TALKS & PANELS
This talk will cover the technology advances of the 20th century that took time and struggle for law, society, and culture to catch up with. This same problem extends into the 21st century and affects financial privacy, so I'll propose some predictions and what I think might make a more favorable outcome to balance the needs of society in the spirit of Alan Westin's 1967 work, "Privacy and Freedom"
We sit down with some wallet legends to talk about the state of sovereignty in the bitcoin self-custody space
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.