10 Dec 2023 [culture]

Monero Talk interviews François-Xavier Wicht

In this Monero Talk episode1’2, Douglas Tuman3 interviews François-Xavier Wicht4, a first-year PhD student in the Cryptology and Data Security Group at the University of Bern:

[..] how much privacy is enough privacy - only by considering privacy itself - well, we probably want full membership proof, we probably want an unlinkability score of 1.. (François @ 1:09:39)

Several topics are discussed in this interview, including crypto adoption, XMR privacy, CoinJoin, Tornado Cash, untraceability, unlinkability, and blockchain surveillance.

  1. https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=_rHgf5drKEE (video) ↩

  2. https://www.monerotalk.live/outcompeting-the-surveillance-state-with-privacy-tech-w-francois-xavier-wicht-epi-292 (audio) ↩

  3. https://nitter.net/DouglasTuman/ ↩

  4. https://crypto.unibe.ch/fxw/ ↩