Snowden: Bitcoin needs better privacy

NBTV: Your Money, Your Data, Your Life - A podcast by Naomi Brockwell

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Recently Snowden was awarded the Thomas Szasz Award from the Center for Independent Thought, which was presented to him by my boss John Stossel. During the call I was able to ask Snowden about Bitcoin and the need for anonymous digital payments. Bitcoin played an important role in the 2013 Snowden leaks: the servers that Snowden used to transfer information to journalists were paid for using bitcoin, because he didn’t want those records connected to his name.Snowden explained to me that ...