Privacy first steps

An extensive post detailing a recommendation of the order of steps I would take if starting from scratch in my privacy journey today.

December 21, 2021 · 18 min · Seth For Privacy

The Custody Trap

How E-Cash Risks Bitcoiners’ Sovereignty.

August 26, 2025 · 9 min · Seth For Privacy

On Zcash

Zcash: jack of all trades, master of none.

July 12, 2025 · 12 min · Seth For Privacy

Setting up a Bitcoin username

BIP 353: Making payments social, one DNS entry at a time.

July 15, 2024 · 11 min · Seth For Privacy

Why I Focus on Bitcoin

I’m not a Bitcoin maximalist. I’m not a Monero maximalist. I’m a freedom maximalist.

March 12, 2023 · 10 min · Seth For Privacy

Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements

A list of Bitcoin proposals and ideas to improve privacy that are still a work in progress, were abandoned or never implemented, or failed to make a noticeable impact.

May 31, 2022 · 17 min · Seth For Privacy

Privacy-preserving Statistics Using Plausible

In this post I’ll dive into the key features of Plausible’s self-hosted statistics tool, the key datapoints you should be aware of, and how to disable or block it if desired.

February 23, 2022 · 7 min · Seth For Privacy

Dispelling Monero FUD

In this post I’ll attempt to walk through the most common FUD around Monero (both valid and invalid) and help to clarify many of these points.

December 17, 2021 · 12 min · Seth For Privacy

Announcing my new podcast - Opt Out!

Welcome to Opt Out, where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

June 10, 2021 · 2 min · Seth For Privacy

Bitcoin's Fungibility Graveyard

Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.

March 23, 2021 · 10 min · Seth For Privacy