Monero Talk

Self-Custody Best Practices, Cake Wallet, and Monero with Seth for Privacy | EPI 391

August 8th, 2026  |  1 hr 59 mins

Privacy, asic, bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, fungible, monero, monerotalk, monerotopia, privacycoin, sethforprivacy, xmr, zcash

TODAY'S SHOW: In this episode Seth for Privacy joins Douglas Tuman to discuss his recent deep dive into AI, particularly privacy-preserving ways to use AI while paying with Monero. The conversation then moves into Monero development, Zcash and its privacy tradeoffs, ASIC resistance and RandomX, tail emission and dynamic block size, and the current state of quantum-resistant cryptography.

Seth also discusses Monero's decentralized funding and governance model, potential attacks against the Monero community, wallet security, and the promising performance improvements being explored through Cuprate.

RandomX by October with Howard Chu, Tevador and Needmoney90

March 27th, 2019  |  55 mins 29 secs

Privacy, asic, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, howardchu, monero, moneronews, needmoney90, privacycoin, randomx, technology, tevador, xmr, xmrnews

@hyc_symas -- the creator of RandomJS (the genesis of RandomX)
Tevador -- the lead developer of RandomX
Needmoney90 -- Monero Reddit moderator and all things Monero expert.

We discuss what transpired during the recent IRC developers meeting on a Proof of Work plan of action for Monero. Particularly, we discuss the communities goal of implementing RandomX in October (if an audit is successfully completed by then) and what the following steps will be if RandomX does not successfully thwart Asics -- switching to SHA-3 or another egalitarian proof of work. All-in-all it is exciting times as we watch the developers reach consensus on a plan of action to uphold one of Monero's tenants -- maintaining a decentralized mining network.

I also gave Howard, NeedMoney90, and Tevador and opportunity to respond to the Kristy Leigh Minehan interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZF4BqIDrk

Is ASIC resistance futile with Kristy Leigh Minehan

March 23rd, 2019  |  1 hr 10 mins

Privacy, asic, asicresistant, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, kristyleighminehan, monero, moneronews, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

We discuss proof of work and Monero's strategy for preserving a decentralized mining network to remain as censorship resistant digital cash. Is ASIC resistance futile?