Bitcoin Q&A: Backwards privacy and the importance of earning

Can we hope for backwards privacy on Bitcoin? Should privacy features be enabled by default? Why were Taproot, Graftroot, and Schnorr signatures combined as proposals? How do KYC exchanges ruin privacy and anonymity? Is it better to earn instead of buy?

This question is from the Scottish Blockchain Meetup at Craiglockhart Campus on June 19th 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland: https://aantonop.com/event/community-event-edinburgh/

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