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How FediMints could ease onboarding and privacy in Bitcoin w/ Eric Sirion and Matt Odell
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What are your thoughts on the legal and regulatory attack surface FediMint may bring on custodians and users?

Episode Summary

This episode, we're sitting down with Eric Sirion and Matt Odell to chat about FediMints, a fascinating and unusual new proposal that seeks to ease onboarding
and privacy on Bitcoin with important trade-offs.More about Eric Sirion and Matt Odell:Eric Sirion's guest profile --
https://optoutpod.com/guests/eric-sirion/Matt Odell's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/odell/More about FediMints:Website -- https://f... Show More... Show More

Chapters

  • Eric and Matt introduce themselves
  • What was it that woke you up to the need for more attainable privacy on Bitcoin?
  • What prompted the creation of FediMint?
  • What would you hope users get from using FediMint?
  • What are the key trade-offs with FediMint, and why do you view them as worth it?
  • A shoutout to Opt Out's sponsors
  • How does FediMint provide strong privacy to users despite being custodial?
  • What are your thoughts on the legal and regulatory attack surface FediMint may bring on custodians and users?
  • What financial incentive do FediMint custodians have, and how can they build a business model around FediMint?
  • What does user authorization/access look like? Are seed-phrases unnecessary?
  • How does FediMint pair with Lightning? How are they symbiotic?
  • How do you view the tradeoffs of FediMint vs using Monero for spending while saving in Bitcoin?
  • How can listeners help support what you're doing with FediMint?

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