E29 - Brandon Bucher on Samourai, Privacy, & Lightning

Brandon Bucher is an engineer and the co-founder of LightningPay.nz. Brandon and I talk about the recent indictments against the Samourai founders whose wallet was operating a bitcoin mixing service. They are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business which echo with the privacy battles in the 90s over encryption. We get into lightning network adoption, privacy, and the future outlook of your UTXO.

Timestamps:

00:00 Samourai indictment
08:22 moving the goal posts
16:26 privacy as choice
21:37 privacy long game
26:11 cypherpunks and the battle  
32:26 lightning network 
38:04 public info on lightning
41:09 adoption in lighting
49:12 UTXO scarcity
54:25 LightningPay.nz
1:02:25 rapid fire
1:05:24 fin

Some notes from the show:

• Samourai indictment 
• coin-join/whirlpool 
• Bitcoin fog 
• Tornado Cash founder sentenced to prison  
• Coin Centre post by Peter Van Valkenburgh 
• unannounced lightning channels 
• Lighting charts 
• River Reports 
• eCash 
• Lightning Pay 

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Recorded at blockheight 842607. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.