Monero Talk

Is Monero the truest cryptocurrency?

About the show

Monero Talk broadcasts weekly conversations on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/monerotalk) with topical guests to understand what the Monero cryptocurrency is today and what it hopes to become.

We strive to give birth to new Monero users by simply reporting on the facts in our search to answer the question--Is Monero the truest cryptocurrency of them all? In staying true to the Monero ethos, we aim to always be skeptical. While we are Monero Talk by name, and Monero devotees at heart, the intention of the show is to ultimately discover and support the one blockchain that is most aligned with the original cypherpunk and crypto-anarchist ideals that cryptocurrency was born from. And the one that is most likely to succeed at becoming true digital cash. So far, we believe Monero is the one.

Guests include:
The developers and researchers working on the open source core protocol and the cryptography behind it;
The people building the projects and infrastructure supporting the protocol;
Privacy advocates and people building privacy enhancing technologies;
Analysts and investors speculating on Monero's growth;
Journalists and pundits weighing in on Monero's place in the crypto-sphere; and
Respected (sometimes controversial) contributors and community members.

If you enjoyed the show & would like to support us, a donation of any size would be greatly appreciated and would mean so much!

Monero (XMR) Donation Address:
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Episodes

  • MONEROTOPIA EPI #44: Rodolfo & XMR in Portugal, MoneroUK free stickers & more!

    December 19th, 2021  |  1 hr 25 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, localmonero, monero, moneronews, portugal, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! We chat about our COIVID experience, Monerotopia Conference 2022, recent Sri Aravinda interview, Price Report with aFungible, special guest Rodolfo who chats about #XMR in Portugal, chimes into our weekly news segment, @MoneroUK is giving away FREE stickers & more!

  • Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan: Building a Lightning Network on Monero

    December 14th, 2021  |  58 mins 57 secs
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sriaravindakrishnanthyagarajan, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Sri Aravinda Krishnan, an applied cryptography post doc at CMU who has co/authored various papers that are laying the groundwork for developing a second layer on Monero, aka payment channels, akin to the lighting network on bitcoin.

    Doug and Aravinda discuss what an LN-like network on monero would look like, what developments are required on the Monero side to make payment channels possible, and much more!

  • MONEROTOPIA EPI #43: w/ Linus Planz author of "Cryptocurrencies as a Medium of Exchange" & More!

    December 12th, 2021  |  2 hrs 8 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, localmonero, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! We give an update on Monerotopia 2022 new speakers Andres & Moneroujo team, Sri Aravinda & Joel Valenzuela interviews, price report by aFungible, a chat with Linus Planz, who is enthusiastic about Austrian Economics and cryptocurrencies as well as wrote his thesis on "Cryptocurrencies as a Medium of Exchange" , this weeks monero news, ArticMine, Nik, Anhdres joins us & more!

  • Joel Valenzuela: On living off of Crypto & his take on Monero

    December 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, changenow, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, joelvalenzuela, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman chats with Joel Valenzuela who has been living off of crypto and unbanked since 2016. JoΓ«l, like Doug, is passionate about the digital cash use case of crypto.

    The two discuss which cryptos are doing digital cash the best and which services/tools make cryptos like monero more useable for day to day cash purposes. Joel is primarily focused on Dash but had positive things to say about monero too.

  • MONEROTOPIA EPI #42: Mining pools with MikeCustomTech

    December 5th, 2021  |  1 hr 33 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, localmonero, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! MoneroTopia conference updates, Cake Wallet debacle, special guest MikeCustomTech chatting about mining info booths at Monerotopia & viewers on stage with Justin, Anhdres & more!

  • Vik Sharma of Cakewallet on being Monero First

    December 2nd, 2021  |  34 mins 51 secs
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, viksharma, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman checks in with Vik Sharma, founder of Cakewallet to discuss the controversial news that dropped this week that they obtained a grant from the zcash foundation to add zcash to cake.

    Cake received blowback from the Monero community and reacted by pivoting and announcing Cake wallet will now develop 3 wallets. Cake original, which will continue to evolve down its multi-coin pro-privacy path, a separate zcash wallet, and most exciting a separate Monero wallet for Monero purists which they will be focusing on first and hope to launch in the next few months.

    We will continue to recommend Cake Wallet who sponsors this show, as they have yet again showed a devotion to building tools and services for Monero purists like us.

  • MONEROTOPIA EPI #41: We reveal our NEW & improved XMRtopia Curated/Uncensored Event & more!

    November 28th, 2021  |  1 hr 21 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, localmonero, monero, moneronews, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! We reveal our new & improved Monerotopia Curated/Uncensored Event on April 7th in Miami with a new lineup, have a short price report, chat with Clarity Focus (news letters), kraken, CCS ideas and more!

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  • Mano Crypto: From BTC Maximalism to Monero Extremism

    November 26th, 2021  |  56 mins 3 secs
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman has a casual chat with Mano Crypto. A self proclaimed monero extremist.

    Doug had heard Mano speaking passionately against KYC exchanges on a Monero twitter Spaces and invited him to have a convo.

  • MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ EPI #40: ETH-XMR swaps w/ Elizabeth, ArticMine, Crypt0bear & more!

    November 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 38 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, localmonero, monero, moneronews, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! We talk about the revamping of Monerotopia, ETH-XMR swap with Elizabeth, delisting of Monero on Kraken, proof of work and the environment, chat with Articmine, Crypt0bear and more!

  • Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries Talks Monero

    November 19th, 2021  |  49 mins 12 secs
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, changenow, crypto, cryptocurrency, darknetdiaries, decentralized, jackrhysider, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews podcast rockstar Jack Rhysider of the Darknet diaries.

    Jack has been interviewed many times about his success in the business of telling Darknet related stories, but in this convo, Doug keeps it focused on…you guessed it, Monero!

  • Alex Anarcho: German Monero Podcaster Building TipXMR

    November 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 23 mins
    alexanarcho, bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, changenow, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Alex Anarcho, a German monero podcaster who speaks passionately about the true value of monero.

    Doug and Alex talk about the monero scene in Germany, the Tipxmr project that alex is working on with partners, some MoneroTopia debacle talk and much more!

    A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Tickets are still on sale for the First annual MoneroTopia Confer and Chill Event to be held in Miami on April 7th, next door to the Bitcoin 2022 Conference!

  • MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ EPISODE #39: XMRtopia Uncensored?

    November 13th, 2021  |  1 hr 40 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU!

  • MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ EPISODE #38: w/ Monero Exchange Run Telegram Group!

    November 7th, 2021  |  1 hr 32 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, changenow, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, monerotopia, monerotopia2022, monerotopiaconfer, privacy, privacycoin, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! We give an update on the speakers for the Monerotopia Confer & Chill 2022 in Miami, Chills awesome Monerotopia promo video, Guns & Bitcoin Twitter Spaces recording, Gratuitas, how monero can be more usable (TAKE YOUR XMR OFF OF EXCHANGES!) and we chat with Bogdanoff from the Monero Exchange Run telegram Group!

  • Sudeep Bose on the Expectation of Privacy in Bitcoin vs. Monero

    November 5th, 2021  |  1 hr 16 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, changenow, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, monerotopia, monerotopia2022, privacy, privacycoin, sudeepbose, sweetwaterdigitalconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    TODAY'S πŸŽ™SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Sudeep Bose. A practicing attorney and Monero enthusiast who got his start in crypto as a bitcoiner in 2013.

    A great conversation was had on the importance of monero and why Bose has become more vocal in his support of it and is encouraging others to do so.

    A special announcement: Tickets are now on sale for the First annual MoneroTopia Confer and Chill Event to be held in Miami on April 7th, next door to the Bitcoin 2022 Conference!

    We already have some amazing speakers lined up and will be adding more in the coming weeks. Act fast to grab an β€œearly adopter” ticket to secure your β€œearly adopter” swag item.. and to get the best deal before we raise the ticket prices.

    Just go to MoneroTopia.com where you can quickly purchase a ticket with crypto!

  • Twitter Spaces: Guns N' Bitcoin Presents: Pros & Cons of Bitcoin and Monero

    November 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, gunsnbitcoins, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, twitterspaces, xmr, xmrnews

    Twitter Spaces: LIVE STREAMING of Guns N' Bitcoin Presents: Pros & Cons of Bitcoin and Monero

  • MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌEPI#37: with special guests, Monero Matteo, Kevin Wad & Cryptic_Media!

    October 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 11 mins
    bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

    MONEROTOPIA πŸ’ƒπŸ½πŸπŸ•ΊπŸΌ: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr and special guests, Monero Matteo & Kevin Wad! We also chat about our upcoming Monerotopia Confer & Chill!