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Juraj Bednar is an entrepreneur, hacker and co-founder of Paralelná Polis Bratislava and Prague’s Paralelní Polis. It hosts a hackerspace called Institute of Cryptoanarchy and a cafeteria with best coffee in Prague and accepting only cryptocurrencies. His favourite cryptocurrency is bitcoin, he also uses monero as a medium of exchange. In his talk “Financial surveillance and crypto utopias” at the #HCPP19 Hackers Congress Juraj presented his research on how banks are enforcing KYC, anti-money laundering regulations while at the same time do not care about it, if they want you as a customer. He also shows us hacks to regain financial privacy with cryptocurrency.
We talk about:
- Opposing totalitarian regime and communism
- Concept of Paraleni Polis
- How to survive in a society that is not free and the development of parallel society
- KYC, anti-money laundering, tax evasion
- Banks are over-regulating, but they do not need to, if they want you as a customer
- Need to have a bank account
- Security theatre
- Hacks for better financial privacy
- Why bitcoin is his favourite cryptocurrency
“Don’t feed the beast with your data.” – Juraj Bednar
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Recording Date: October 4, 2019Location: Hackers Congress, Prag
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