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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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