A Bitcoin Maximalist Confronts Tether w/ Max Hillebrand

Max Hillebrand is more than a freedom-loving student of Austrian economics. If you ever used open-source software in the Bitcoin space, you have likely benefitted in some degree from his work. Max and I go way back- In 2018 we both saw privacy in Bitcoin as a fundamental problem and a concern that is worth addressing. By no coincidence, he and I crossed paths at an open-source project that claimed to offer an unfair amount of user privacy in Bitcoin transactions (Wasabi Wallet). From there, we quickly became friends and even had the uncommon pleasure of meeting in person in Amsterdam and Taiwan. This episode I change things up a bit. A lot of proponents of Bitcoin don't feel comfortable, for perhaps obvious reasons, to discuss the systemic risk of Tether. The discussion is typically classified as 'FUD' and the conversation stops before it has even started. Well not with Max! Max walks valiantly down this path to discuss his thoughts on Tether and how he personally interprets both events from the past and his expectations of the future. He does what a lot of his peers are not able to do, but what he is best at - discussing systemic risks and attack vectors to the Bitcoin ecosystem. For more on Max Hillebrand: https://towardsliberty.com https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax https://github.com/MaxHillebrand Follow me on twitter for more episodes! https://twitter.com/milner_aviv And as always, this wouldn't be possible without my producer and editor - Gordon Dolven. Check him out on twitter! https://twitter.com/gordolven --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/when-the-music-stops/message