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My guest is Andreas M. Antonopoulos, who has been one of my biggest inspirations on my Bitcoin journey. We are discussing Bitcoin, the ultimate fairness system, why we need to strengthen privacy now, and his outlook for 2021. His talks have been inspiring and ensuring that is the space where my personal values and ethics find a place to work on something that is bigger than me, where I can contribute to changing the world to become a better place. Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a bitcoin and open blockchains educator, he coined the terms "Not your keys, not your coins" and "streaming money" and is the author of Mastering Bitcoin, the Internet of Money series and is currently working on the book Mastering the Lightning Network.

Our topics:

     Bitcoin, the fairness protocol
     The danger of changes to the consensus protocol
     Good bitcoin addresses, bad bitcoin addresses
     The propaganda of self-hosted wallets
     Fight for privacy
     Taproot activation, Schnorr signatures
     Doing Coinjoins, Wasabi, Samourai wallet
     Outlook for the Lightning Network 2021
     Kraken implementing Lightning
     Phoenix, Breeze, Strike wallets
     Macro-outlook for Bitcoin in 2021

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