Month: May 2025

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: What the Samourai Case Means for the Future of BTC Privacy

Seth for Privacy breaks down the Samurai Wallet legal case, Bitcoin's current privacy limitations, and solutions like Silent Payments and Payjoin V2. He discusses the government's attack on privacy tools and why Monero offers better privacy by default.


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Seth for Privacy, VP at Cake Wallet, joins us to discuss the ongoing Samurai Wallet legal case and its implications for Bitcoin privacy. Seth explains how the DOJ's prosecution of Samurai developers threatens the entire crypto privacy landscape, despite FinCEN's admission that self-custodial wallets shouldn't be regulated as money services. He breaks down Bitcoin's current privacy limitations, highlighting promising technologies like Silent Payments and Payjoin V2, while candidly addressing why Monero offers superior privacy by design. Are we re-living through the same cryptography battle we fought in the 90s?


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Notes:

- Samurai indicted April 24, 2024, despite self-custody

- 98% conviction rate in Southern District of NY

- DOJ hid key FinCEN evidence from defense

- Silent Payments gives one reusable static address

- Payjoin V2 coming to Cake Wallet this week

- Bitcoin privacy tools fighting transparent design


Timestamps

00:00 Start

01:04 Samurai wallet legal case

06:30 Jurisdiction & charges

11:59 How significant is this case?

16:28 Arch Network

17:00 Current privacy on BTC

19:47 Silent payments

21:54 Payjoin V2

24:43 Privacy tech limits of BTC

27:42 Privacy soft forks

32:51 Future of oh-chain privacy

37:31 OP_RETURN debate

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Marketplace All-in-One - Growing insurance premiums — and problems

California regulators are allowing State Farm insurance to charge 17% more following this year's LA wildfires. State Farm says it needs the rate increase — on top of the 20% it got last year — because it’s in financial distress following the fires. But the issue of higher premiums goes well beyond California. We'll hear more, then learn why there are concerns about the U.S. dollar remaining the world's reserve currency.

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Cato Daily Podcast - Best of Cato Daily Podcast: A Realistic, Quick Path to Ending Cannabis Prohibition?

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners.


What’s the best path forward to end cannabis prohibition without loading it up with needless federal regulation? Jim Higdon is the co-founder of Cornbread Hemp and an advocate for an end to cannabis prohibition. He says the Farm Bill is the key.

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Marketplace All-in-One - President Trump’s Gulf tour continues

From the BBC World Service: It’s the second day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tour of the Middle East. So far, there's been the red carpet treatment in Riyadh, culminating in billions of dollars in Saudi investment. Later in the tour, Trump is expected to meet Syria's interim leader to lift sanctions against the country. Plus, in France, the shop-on-a-truck idea has branched out into new areas such as beauty and cosmetics.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Young Candidates Are Coming For The Incumbents

Gen Z and millennial candidates are running for public office, and they’re not afraid to take on members of their own parties who have been in power for decades. Reset talks with Chicago Tribune state government reporter Olivia Olander, NPR politics reporter Elena Moore and Illinois State Rep. Nabeela Syed. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Big Technology Podcast - AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Emily  Bender is a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. Alex Hanna is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Bender and Hanna join Big Technology to discuss what their new book, “The AI‑Con," which they describe as the layered ways today’s language‑model boom obscures environmental costs, labor harms, and shaky science. Tune in to hear a lively back‑and‑forth on whether chatbots are useful tools or polished parlor tricks. We also cover benchmark gaming, data‑center water use, doomerism, and more. Hit play for a candid debate that will leave you smarter about where generative AI really stands — and what comes next.

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WSJ What’s News - Tariffs Are About to Separate Retail’s Winners and Losers

A.M. Edition for May 14. We head to a gathering of top global retailers to hear why this week’s 90-day tariff rollback by the U.S. and China isn’t delivering the long-term certainty businesses are looking for. Plus, President Trump met with the new president of Syria, marking a major turning point in global recognition of the country’s leadership. And the U.S. reverses Biden-era export controls on advanced AI chips. Luke Vargas hosts.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - All talk, no sanctions: Trump lifts Syria embargo

As Donald Trump removes bans on trade with Syria and meets its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, our correspondent analyses the implications. Two feuding political dynasties in the Philippines use mid-term elections as a proxy battle (10:03). And introducing V-Tubers, creators behind live-streams of cartoon avatars coming to a screen near you (18:42).


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