Episode Description
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Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Carl Dong, founder of Obscura VPN and former Bitcoin Core developer at Chain Code Labs, joins us to talk about his transition from Bitcoin development to building privacy infrastructure. We discuss his work on reproducible builds, supply chain security, the funding dynamics of Bitcoin development, and why he created the first multi-hop VPN that eliminates single points of trust.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:09 Carl's professional background
02:54 Personal background
07:50 Open source vs product dev
18:14 Chaincode's influence
23:05 Ellipsis Labs
24:06 Funding open source work
30:21 Obscura VPN
36:07 The state of TOR
40:30 VPN user base
45:10 Easy personal privacy steps
47:57 Privacy in Bitcoin
53:21 Simplicity
58:02 Innovations from the "crypto" space
1:00:21 Wrap up
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