Monero Talk

MoneroTopia26 speakers Mike Hassard & Tor Ekeland + Price, News of the week & More! | EPI 243

December 14th, 2025  |  4 hrs 9 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼EPISODE 243 - MoneroTopia26 speakers Mike Hassard & Tor Ekeland + Price, News of the week & More!

Merged Mining and Proof of Useful Work - Security Implications for Monero. W/ Francisco Cabanas | EPI 358

July 31st, 2025  |  1 hr 17 mins

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TODAY'S SHOW: This episode of Monero Talk featured a discussion with Arctic (Francisco) on key developments in Monero and the broader crypto ecosystem. Arctic shared updates on his work optimizing scaling for full chain membership proofs, addressing concerns about increased transaction sizes and verification times.

They discussed the Samurai Wallet case, where developers pled guilty to money transmission violations tied to fees sent to operators, reinforcing existing FinCEN guidance rather than creating new law.

The main topic centered on the emerging “Cubic” cryptocurrency, which uses Monero merge-mining under the guise of “proof of useful work.” Arctic warned that if Cubic amasses significant hash rate, it could threaten Monero’s network security, similar to the 2018 ASIC attack, and suggested countermeasures like miner education and potential token sell-offs. The conversation also contrasted proof of stake’s flaws with proof of work’s resilience and concluded with updates on Monero’s full chain membership proofs—expected around 2026—which aim to improve fungibility despite larger transaction sizes and longer verification times, mitigated through parallel processing and hardware optimizations.

Is Monero traceable? And why scaling matters for privacy w/ Francisco Cabanas (ArticMine) | EPI 324

September 16th, 2024  |  1 hr 56 mins

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TODAY'S SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews ArticMine, a monero core team member and well known Monero contributor specializing in scaling and a blockchain surveillance expert.

They dive into the traceability of Monero, discussing recent events around leaked Chainalysis videos. They explore how privacy features such as ring signatures, stealth addresses, and confidential transactions safeguard Monero users from blockchain surveillance.

The conversation also covers the implementation of Dandelion technology, which further protects user privacy by obscuring IP addresses. Throughout, they emphasize the strengths of Monero's privacy model while addressing common misconceptions about its traceability.

Samourai Wallet SHUT DOWN? w/ Seth For Privacy & ArticMine, Price, News & MUCH More! | EPI 163

April 28th, 2024  |  4 hrs 29 mins

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MONEROTOPIA EPISODE 163 - Samourai Wallet Shut Down w/ Guests Seth for Privacy & Francisco Cabanas (ArticMine), Price Report w/ BawdyAnarchist, News of the week w/ Tony and much more!

TXN count, Monero Blocks w/ ArticMine, News, Price & MUCH More! EPI #157

March 10th, 2024  |  5 hrs 7 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 EPISODE 157 - Monero Price Report with Bawdy, Monero Blocks w/ ArticMine, Co-host and News of the week w/ Tony, Special guest and MUCH MORE!

The CCS Wallet Hack: Exposing and Improving Monero’s Weaknesses w/ Francisco "ArticMine" Cabañas and Justin Ehrenhofer | EPI #288

November 8th, 2023  |  2 hrs 46 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman sits down with Francisco Cabanas and Justin Ehrenhofer, Both are superstars in the Monero project. Francisco, aka Articmine, is a member of the Monero core team and known for his expertise in Monero scaling and crypto blockchain analysis. and Justin is a long time Monero contributor, former Cake Wallet VP of Operations, and founder of moonstone research -- a firm specialized in tracing difficult to trace cryptocurrency transactions.

The show is a massive one, covering three main topics: The recent CCS hack, Moonstones probabilistic tracing of the stolen funds, and overall lessons learned and likely path forward,

Including discussions of the positive impacts the hack will likely have on improving how Monero development is funded, how the project as a whole is managed and maintained, and improving the intractability of Monero.

LIVE at Defcon29 w/ Francisco Cabañas aka ArticMine

August 10th, 2021  |  25 mins 44 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: From Defcon 29 in Las Vegas …Douglas Tuman iinterviews Francisco Cabañas aka ArticMine, a member of the monero core team.

The two discuss his Defcon talk about Monero Scaling Opportunities and Challenges.

Monero's Organic Growth w/ Core Team Member ArticMine

January 17th, 2021  |  1 hr 16 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Francisco Cabanas..aka ArticMine. For those of you that are new to Monero, Francisco is the man! He is a Monero Core Team member that has been actively researching and investing in cryptocurrencies since 2011.  He holds a phd in physics and is an expert in the field of cryptocurrency scaling — specifically Monero’s elegant dynamic blocksize architecture.  He is also at the forefront of understanding how regulators will likely deal with crypto.

36C3 PART 5: OME on Sharp Forks & Francisco "Articmine" Cabanas on Monero’s Adaptive Block Weight

February 24th, 2020  |  54 mins 4 secs

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36C3 PART 5: OME on Sharp Forks & Francisco "Articmine" Cabanas on Monero’s Adaptive Block Weight

LIVE W/ Francisco "Articmine" Cabanas at Defcon27!

August 11th, 2019  |  18 mins 34 secs

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LIVE W/ Francisco "Articmine" Cabanas at Defcon27!