Interview

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A researcher recounts quitting W3C over DRM and building the Web Crypto API, shifts to secure messaging and mix network work, and flags Bitcoin’s scalability limits and Ethereum’s brittle EVM while praising Ethereum as a lab for token innovation and ICO funding. Proposes using tokens to incentivize Tor relays and to finance privacy tools, and describes an initiative to deploy a cryptocurrency for roughly 5 million people in Syria to bypass collapsing fiat and blocked transfers.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:22From activism to crypto research
3. 3:06Protests failed—tech alternatives
4. 5:13Bitcoin and Ethereum flaws
5. 7:19ICOs democratizing innovation
6. 9:06Privacy tech in Syria
7. 11:13Ideology versus crypto solutions
8. 13:41Bitcoin as reserve currency
9. 16:30Altcoins and Ethereum innovation
10. 20:46Taaki’s decentralized society
11. 22:10How to get in touch and closing remarks

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