Privacy in Bitcoin and the Wasabi Wallet {talk}

Bitcoin is touted as a digital currency with censorship resistance. However, a growing concern in the Bitcoin community is the issue of privacy. If a currency is not private, it jeopardizes the property of censorship resistance and introduces risks to the users. How much money do you have? Who do you work for? Where do you spend your money? These questions are rarely appropriate to ask someone but are currently available to those with forensics resources and motivation.

Aviv Milner from Wasabi Wallet will introduce some privacy issues with wallet infrastructure and common metrics used to break user privacy. He will then introduce some key design decisions in the Wasabi Wallet, and how they act to protect users from third parties - even the Wasabi Wallet backend!

If you are excited to talk about privacy, forensics, CoinJoins and more - this is the talk for you.

Aviv Milner is currently an independent researcher and consultant through Black Tie - a Vancouver based Bitcoin consulting company. He currently acts as the Technical Community Support for Wasabi Wallet, where he focuses on helping Bitcoiners better understand privacy best practices as well as independent research for future design decisions. His recent research work on privacy improvements and limitations will be the subject of a privacy presentation at this year's Scaling Bitcoin in Tel-Aviv.

Lightning Talks: This talk will include lightning talks by community members. In 2 minutes anyone can present their idea, ask for help, recruit partners, or launch new projects. It's a perfect opportunity to find co-founders, coders, advisors, designers, and clients to help make your idea a reality. If you would like to present, please send BOB a message via the meetup.com group. There will be a limited number of spots, first come first serve.

Who should attend? All ages and experience levels are welcome. If you’re new, you’ll find friendly faces excited and ready to show you the ropes. If you’re a Bitcoin or open-blockchain expert, you’ll find like-minded people to discuss new or existing projects with.

Logistics: The event will be held at 2 pm at mHUB, which is an innovation center for physical product development and manufacturing and a co-working community. It is located just east of Chicago Ave and Milwaukee Ave, just a few blocks from the Kennedy expressway and the Blue line. We will be in the classroom in the back. Look for the BOB signs and we will be in the lobby to guide you back to the correct room when you arrive.

Help support this event by buying some digital raffle tickets to win some awesome crypto gear such as a Colcard, some OpenDimes, hats or a Whitepaper poster! -> https://bob-chi.org/donate