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Richard Myers is the product engineer for txTenna, a project that extends the range for sending and receiving bitcoin transactions over the Blockstream bitcoin satellites and a mesh network. This basically enables using Bitcoin without internet connection. He presented the project together with Adam Back at the Magical Crypto Conference in May 2019. In the podcast interview we go deeper into the ideas and philosophy behind his interest in Bitcoin and how the mesh network allows for more privacy in financial transactions with Bitcoin.
“Having privacy in your financial transactions is a human right and Bitcoin gives you the ability to enforce that right in a peaceful way.” – Richard Myers
“They deputized the banking system as a law enforcement organisation.” – Richard Myers
“Everything the cypherpunks worried about has come to pass.” – Richard Myers
“Not you keys, not your coins, but its also not your privacy either.” – Richard Myers

Building a decentralized multiplayer game in 2004
Getting into Bitcoin
His early use case for Bitcoin
Organizing a Bitcoin MeetUp in Sweden
How he was inspired by Nick Szabo on Twitter
Alex Gladstein talk at the MCC2019
How Bitcoin could be attacked from the communication layer
Beaming the Bitcoin blockchain
Adding robustness to the system
What a mesh network is
Lightning Network and incentives for mesh relays
Tracking smartphones
Military, firefighters use mesh networks
How Blockstream satellites and txTenna work
Off-grid and privacy component
How to send transactions with GoTenna
Integrating goTenna into a cellphone
txTenna is open source and 3rd party reviews
Marketing perspective, user groups
Bitcoins effect on society
Money laundering
Democatizing freedom
Cypherpunk movement and financial privacy

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Der Beitrag Richard Myers About Bitcoin Without Internet and the Importance of Financial Freedom erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show.
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