Heard of SimpleX chat and curious what it's all about? This episode, we're sitting down with Evgeny, the founder of SimpleX Chat to talk about SimpleX, privacy, data sovereignty, and the future of computing.

More about Evgeny:

• Evgeny's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/evgeny-poberezkin/

More about SimpleX:

• Website: https://simplex.chat/
• Chat protocol: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/docs/protocol/simplex-chat.md
• Whitepaper, including threat modeling: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protocol/overview-tjr.md
• Run your own SimpleX SMP server: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq

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This episode, we're sitting down with Eric Sirion and Matt Odell to chat about FediMints, a fascinating and unusual new proposal that seeks to ease onboarding and privacy on Bitcoin with important trade-offs.

More about Eric Sirion and Matt Odell:

• Eric Sirion's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/eric-sirion/
• Matt Odell's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/odell/

More about FediMints:

• Website -- https://fedimint.org/
• Github Organization -- https://github.com/fedimint
• FediMints Telegram room -- https://t.me/+-AsKtcH4Geo2ZTU0
• Citadel Dispatch episode feat. FediMints -- https://citadeldispatch.com/cd45/

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• Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
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Welcome to the first ever live Q&A on Opt Out! We covered a ton of topics ranging from personal privacy, self-hosting, Bitcoin, Monero, privacy-preserving donations, future plans for the podcast, and much more.

Thank you to all those who joined live, and please let me know if you have any questions or want to dive more deeply into any of the topics we touched on here!

Mentioned resources:

• https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/how-monero-uniquely-enables-circular-economies/
• https://localmonero.co/knowledge/remote-nodes-privacy
• https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/
• https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/privacy-first-steps/
• https://sethforprivacy.com/about/#my-community-resources
• https://optoutpod.com/episodes/s1e08-sean-obrien/

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• Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet
• LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero
• IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn

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