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
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Rohan Grey on a Privacy Preserving Digital Dollar vs. Monero
June 22nd, 2021 | 1 hr 29 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, cbdc, centralbankdigitalcurrencies, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, rohangrey, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Rohan Grey, an assistant professor at Willamette University College of Law who participated in the recent U.S. Congressional hearing on digitizing the dollar.
The two discuss their shared belief in the importance of privacy preserving digital cash and then get into where they disagreeâ such as Their opinions of crypto overall. They also discuss the differences between public money and private currencies and how Rohan is for Monero existing and competing but believes it can never and how we should never want it to replace government controlled fiat.
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Monerotopia Episode#20
June 22nd, 2021 | 1 hr 37 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, monerotalk, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews
MONEROTOPIA: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guests and Monero fans!
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Coding Jesus on the Inevitable rise of Monero and fall of Bitcoin
June 19th, 2021 | 54 mins 56 secs
bitcoin, blockchain, codingjesus, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews the Coding Jesus, a self taught developer, crypto enthusiast and prolific YouTuber.
The two discuss his first job at the worlds largest cryptocurrency derivative exchange, Bitmex, how his attraction to personal responsibility and individual liberty led him to cryptocurrency and eventually to Monero, how El Salvador will expose Bitcoins lack of basic day to day usability, bitcoin maximalism and the problem with trying to fight change since change is inevitable, his opinion on the fed coin and if Monero will in due time become a legal tender in a state.
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Luke Smith on Monero's Unique Self-Propelling Nature
June 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 26 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, lukesmith, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Luke Smith, a well known privacy and FOSS advocate.
Doug and Luke discuss the importance of privacy, the flaws of bitcoin that maximalist overlook, the benefits of Monero and what direction it is headed and if he sees crypto being the solution to the mass surveillance through technology.
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Mark Moss on Monero
May 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 11 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, markmoss, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, waroncash, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Mark Moss. Mark is a successful investor and entrepreneur who has a knack for marketing. He runs a YouTube show with over a 258K 1/4 million subscribers that eloquently discusses his investment ideas. Often, bitcoin is discussed and Markâs most popular video with almost a million views discusses his theories on the âwar on cashâ.
In this episode, Doug seeks to understand Marks strong bitcoin conviction and where Monero fits into his thesis, especially considering Marks strong warnings that cash is under attack. At one point Doug brings up the development of bitcoin to monero atomic swaps as an example of how active the Monero project is and how fears of delistings killing Moneroâs liquidity, are probably moot.
It should be noted, since recording, it has been announced that the Comet team has taken btc xmr atomic swaps from test net to mainnet!
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Charlie Lee: On the Importance of Fungibility In Crypto
May 21st, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, charlielee, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, litecoin, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Charlie Lee, a crypto OG who needs no introduction.
Doug and Charlie discuss whether The top is in, Elon musk, Litcoin adding privacy, Moneroâs future role in the cryptosphere, and more! Oh And an important piece of news â- litcoiin is now live on cake wallet!
As Doug discusses with Charlie, litecoin is a great onramp to Monero for those that donât have access to an exchange that sells Monero for Fiat. Just buy Litecoin with fiat and send it for super low fees off the exchange to your LiteCoin cake wallet address. And then when ready, exchange it in Cake for fungible Monero! Thanks again Cake for making Monero more usable!
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Pauline Shangett: Of ChangeNow On Monero
May 13th, 2021 | 46 mins 12 secs
bitcoin, blockchain, changenow, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, paulineshangett, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Pauline Shangett, CMO at Change Now, a cryptocurrency exchange.
In this episode Doug and Pauline discuss the driving force behind the company, the obstacles they had to overcome to prove themselves to the monero community, how the highest rate of trading pairs has been between btc and xmr, as well as insight on how they are able to navigate certain KYC compliances and continue to remain an avenue for monero.
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Juraj Bednar: on Bitcoin Mining Censorship
May 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 52 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, jurajbednar, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Juraj Bednar, an entrepreneur, hacker, and explorer with a passion for increasing liberty in his and others livesâmost famously through his cofounding of para-lelna polis.
Juraj is an early bitcoiner and monero enthusiast who has a deep understanding of the true purpose of cryptocurrency, which he discusses in his podcasts and blogs.
In this episode Doug and Juraj talk about many bitcoin and monero related topics but focus mainly on his blog titled âHow could regulators, successfully introduce bitcoin censorship and other dystopiasâ.
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Andrew Balthazor: The Bona Fide Acquisition Rule Applied to Cryptocurrency
April 30th, 2021 | 54 mins 14 secs
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TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Andrew Balthazor, currently a judicial law clerk at the United States district court For the southern district in Florida and author of a legal research paper that applies the bona fide acquisition rule to cryptcurrency.
The bona fide acquisition rule is a common law principal that originates from Roman Law, that allows an innocent purchaser to acquire certain types of stolen property free from the risk that the property may be claimed by the rightful owner. One such property that the rule applies to is cash.
Primarily, for the policy reason that in order for commerce to flow freely, innocent receivers of cash in a transaction should not be at risk of having someone claim ownership to the cash they received. Whereas with property like a painting ,the rule would not apply, and the innocent purchaser of a stolen painting would not be considered the rightful owner if it can be proven to have been stolen.
In this episode, Andrew discusses his analysis which focused on bitcoin and boils down to whether bitcoin should be considered cash-like or rather should be considered more like property with traceable title ownership given its transparent ledger. Doug and Andrew apply the same analysis to Monero, reasoning the bona fide acquisition rule would more clearly apply to Monero than Bitcoin, given Moneroâs cash-like fungibility. The ultimate deduction being monero acts better as money than bitcoin.
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Aleksandar Svetski: On Bitcoin's Transparent Ledger
April 23rd, 2021 | 1 hr 21 mins
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TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Aleksandar CEO of Amber, podcaster, and a self declared Supreme Bitcoin Extreme Maxi.
In this episode Aleksander, discusses why he is a next level maxi and his rationale for why it is ok that bitcoin is and always will be transparent at the core protocol level.
Aleks believes Bitcoinâs true purpose is to be a censorship resistant settlement network, not a transactional network. Despite being an anarcho capitalist Alexs says he aligns more with bitcoin as opposed to Monero.
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Seth Simmons on Bitcoin Mining Censorship and More
April 15th, 2021 | 1 hr 30 mins
bitcoin, bitcoinfungibility, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, sethsimmons, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Seth Simmons, an information security engineer by day and Monero enthusiast by night.
Seth has become a well known and respected Monero supporter with popular Tweet threads and a blog on things like Bitcoinâs fungibility flaws and explaining developments in the Monero space.
In this episode Seth discusses his journey into the crypto space, why he decided privacy and Fungibility are vital to cryptocurrency and some of his most popular recent takes âlike his opinion of Signal adding Mobilecoin.
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Peter Todd on Bitcoin's and Monero's Security Risks
April 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 12 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, petertodd, privacy, privacycoin, tailemission, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer and applied cryptographic consultant. Peter has been publicly discussing Monero as an interesting project from its earliest days. In fact, Doug reveals how he first learned of Monero from a Peter Todd Podcast.
In this episode Doug asks Peter a series of questions comparing bitcoinâs various security risks to Monero's, most notably they discuss Bitcoinâs most glaring security riskâ a fixed coin supply that lacks a monero-like tail emission to insure miners will have an incentive to mine in perpetuity.
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Richard Stallman: On Cash and Monero
March 31st, 2021 | 1 hr 14 mins
bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, freesoftwarefoundation, gnuproject, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, richardstallman, sweetwaterdigitalsssetconsulting, technology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Richard Stallman, an American free software movement activist, programmer and digital privacy activist best know for launching the GNU Project and founding the Free Software Foundation.
In this interview Doug seeks to understand Richardâs Philosophyâs behind his activism, why his passion for providing humanity with more freedom and liberty through software and his pro digital privacy stance, does not make him more enthusiastic about a free software project like Monero.
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Jason Brett: On the Regulation of Monero
March 19th, 2021 | 56 mins 47 secs
bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, jasonbrett, monero, moneronews, privacy, privacycoin, regulation, sweetwaterdigitalsssetconsulting, technology, valuetechnology, xmr, xmrnews
TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Jason Brett. Jason is a former U.S. Regulator with the FDIC; serving in the Capital Markets and Finance Divisions during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. With the introduction of bitcoin by a colleague in 2016, He entered into the blockchain industry, first with the Chamber of Digital Commerce as Director of Operations for Policy and then as the Policy Ambassador for ConsenSys.
He is currently the founding CEO and President of a new non-profit called the Value Technology Foundation and is a contributor to the Crypto and blockchain division of Forbes.
Doug and Jason discuss the value technology foundation and if it supports projects like Monero, what jason sees as being some of the issues with the current banking and financial system, and where he thinks the regulation of cryptocurrencies (in particular Monero) is headed and the root of what regulators are concerned about.
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Davinci Jeremie: The Original Bitcoin Youtuber on Monero
March 14th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
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TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Davinci Jeremie, a computer scientist and Bitcoin OG that discovered Bitcoin in its earliest days and was one of the first bitcoin YouTubers.
They discuss his journey into the crypto space in the very early days, what he says the real invention of Bitcoin is, his thoughts on moneros money supply schedule vs Bitcoins, how bitcoin plans to secure its network once the block reward ends as well as his take on privacy coins, specifically his positive stance on Monero.
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Andrey Sabelnikv aka Cryptozoidberg: The Dev on the Cryptonote team that worked with Nicolas van Saberhagen
March 3rd, 2021 | 1 hr 13 mins
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TODAY'S đSHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Andrey Sabelnikov, aka Cryptozoidberg founder of the Zano Project and apparent primary dev on the very earliest Cryptonote code.
They discuss his journey into the cryptocurrency space, his role in working with Nicolas van Saberhagen on the first implementation of crypto note in the form of Bytecoin, and his relationship with the Monero project.
Perhaps most positive in terms of Monero was Andrey discussing his admiration of the Monero researchers and the size of the monero community. Despite his mixed feelings about how he was treated by the Monero devs in the early days, he now has respect for the progress the project has made.
While we canât verify the veracity of everything Andrey said, it all seemed very genuine and we have been told by some monero OGs that cryptozoidberg was involved in the earliest days of cryptonote. We hope to continue conversation with him and who knows...maybe he will work on Monero one day too.