Jameson Lopp: Secure Your Bitcoin, Secure Your Future.

This week’s Coin Stories features Bitcoin security expert and Casa CTO, Jameson Lopp.
 

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Jameson Lopp is a cypherpunk, software engineer, writer, and Bitcoin security expert. He is the co-founder and CTO of BTC security provider Casa.

Prior to joining Casa, Lopp was a software engineer at BitGo. He first became involved in Bitcoin around 2012.

Lopp made national headlines in 2017 when he was the victim of a swatting attack. He decided to live off the grid as the result of that incident, and the New York Times has written about the extent to which Lopp went in order to privatize his life. He purchased a decoy house, created a number of business entities and paid private investigators to try and find him. His exact location remains unknown and in his community he is only known by a pseudonym.

For more information and Bitcoin resources head to lopp.net

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro and discount codes
2:11 Jameson family background
7:24 Upbringing and money
10:01 Early career
14:03 Leading to Bitcoin discovery
16:01 Jameson’s Bitcoin journey
18:15 Buying Bitcoin early
21:03 Mt. Gox and Jameson’s BTC conviction
25:44 Bitcoin’s quickly growing adoption
28:20 Transitioning to Bitcoin career
30:57 Swatting incident
35:42 Going on a journey to privatize his life
39:26 How hidden is Jameson’s identity
40:57 Most surprising part on journey to privacy
43:16 Why is privacy for everyone important
46:56 Who is the swatter?
49:42 Jameson’s message to the swatter
50:52 How can average person gain more privacy
52:51 Ad blockers
54:23 How did Satoshi hide his/her identity?
56:35 Satoshi’s identity
57:55 Jameson and Casa
1:01:19 Self-custody help with Bitcoin
1:04:05 Self-custody and mass adoption
1:08:45 Why Casa if you have cold storage?
1:12:00 Bitcoin inheritance and wills
1:17:33 Bitcoin projects and developments
1:18:44 Where Jameson sees Bitcoin in 10 years
1:22:43 Bitcoin in El Salvador
1:25:20 1 BTC=1 BTC