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Bitcoin Privacy Introduction

Why privacy matters in Bitcoin

Celsius recent court filings provided a terrible and arguably avoidable loss of privacy for many of its customers, and will likely have chilling ripple effects for a long time to come. The goal of this presentation-turned-writeup is to give some context so that the reader can understand the consequences of such incidents and where to find more detailed information in order to mitigate such risks, and the tradeoffs that entails.

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Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

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/**
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 * Code Club: PO1
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 * (*) Define a binary tree data structure and related fundamental operations.
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 * Use whichever language features are the best fit (this will depend on the language you have selected).  The following operations should be supported:
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 *    Constructors

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emacs --daemon to run in the background. emacsclient.emacs24 <filename/dirname> to open in terminal

NOTE: "M-m and SPC can be used interchangeably".

• Undo - C-/
• Redo - C-?
• Change case: 1. Camel Case : M-c 2. Upper Case : M-u

3. Lower Case : M-l

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tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a