Pizza Day Prague 2023 | Lea Petras - Real-world reputation as the ultimate collateral in P2P txs

All of the current methods for obtaining bitcoin come with a specific set of their own drawbacks: Centralized exchanges put the users at risk of linking their identity to a trade, and while bitcoin ATMs and decentralized exchanges offer more privacy, they can come with high fees and are not always easily accessible or user-friendly. Trying to mitigate these flaws generates undesired complexity for the users.
In this talk, Lea will explain how we can reevaluate how we think about privacy in bitcoin transactions and the ability to trade safely, while still keeping the users in charge of their identity, without disclosing it to a third party - including the service provider.
Lea is a co-founder and the CEO of Vexl, an anonymous marketplace for trading bitcoin as it was intended: peer-to-peer and without KYC.
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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence and innovative thinking, and the development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon.
The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without support from the government, and most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.
It was founded by members of a contemporary group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of freedom in order to shape the public discourse and ultimately work towards a freer future.