Monero Talk

Sarang Noether & Aram Jivanyan: On Improving Monero with Lelantus Spark

October 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Cryptographers Aram Jivanyan and Sarang Noether about their recently published proposal of the Lelantus Spark protocol.

The three discuss the development of the proposal, how it was funded by “privacy coin” project Firo and the benefit of competing cryptos trying to solve similar problems; the benefits it potentially could provide to Monero if adopted, and the general privacy coin space.

Wesley Thysse: On Governments Planning Worldwide Regulation of Crypto

September 23rd, 2021  |  1 hr 7 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Wesley Thysse of decentralized legal system.com, who recently made a splash on r/cryptocurrency with the posting of his report on what regulations he believes governments worldwide will begin to enforce with regards to crypto.

The two discuss Wesley's research into the Financial action task Force and their recent recommendations to G20 on how to approach crypto currency, and why and how the FATF has so much influence in bringing forth financial regulations in the US and globally, especially considering it is not an elected body.

The two also discuss Wesley's thoughts on crypto and in particular Monero as an unstoppable technology and whether betting on Monero in the face of mounting regulatory headwind is sound.

Monerotopia 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 Epi #31: Monero T-shirts, aFungible humble post, guest suggestions & more!

September 18th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 Episode #31: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guest YOU! We chat about our cool Monero T-shirts from clubmonero.com, aFungible humble post, guest suggestions & more!

Chris Sky: The Power of United Non-Compliance & Monero

September 16th, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Chris Sky. A humans rights advocate born out of the Covid 19 lockdowns who was catapulted to social media fame when he was recorded at a demonstration giving an eloquent and disturbingly accurate prediction on how the Canadian government was going to increasingly take away citizens liberties in their response to covid.

Recently, Sky has been trying to rally support against vaccine mandates and posted a Bitcoin address to raise donations. When it was shown to him how easy it was to see all transactions made to and from his btc address, he decided to give a monero donation address a try and liked the results. Untraceable, super cheap to transact, and simple.

Thank you Chris for approaching crypto with an open mind in search for its true purpose and choosing to have your crypto debut on Monero Talk. We posted Chris’s donation address in the show notes. If you support his activism, please consider sending him an anonymous Monero donation.

Sergei Chernykh: On his development of P2Pool a Decentralized XMR Mining Pool

September 10th, 2021  |  57 mins 2 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Sergei Chernykh aka sech1 a monero developer that has made very important contributions to Monero’s mining network.

The two discuss Sergei’s most recent breakthrough contribution. The development of p2pool, Monero’s first decentralized mining pool that lets miners team-up to mine together, without taking any fees and without yielding a centralized pool operator their vote in the network, thus allowing for pools that can grow large without fear of a 51% attack on the network.

The two also discuss how Sergei came about finding and working for Monero, randomx, and what areas in Monero need more improvement.

Please consider donating to Sergei for his development work. His address is posted in the show notes. Please also consider donating to Doug’s CCS proposal so Doug can transition to working full-time on helping Monero grow.

The Nomad Capitalist on where to find MoneroTopia

September 2nd, 2021  |  53 mins 19 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Andrew Henderson, the founder of Nomad Capitalist, a service that helps people “go where they are treated best” .

The two discuss how he became the nomad capitalist, his opinion on Monero and his interest in learning more about it, crypto in general as a tool of opting out of the traditional financial system, what crypto friendly locations one can consider going to, his concern of the volitility and regulations of crypto in the states as well as where he sees crypto and the nomad capitalist movement trending to.

Dr. Rolf van Wegberg: On Monero replacing Bitcoin on Dark Markets

August 27th, 2021  |  1 hr 27 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Douglas Tuman interviews Dr. Rolf van Wegberg, an assistant professor of Cybercrime Governance at Delft University of Technology.

The two discuss how Monero is now rapidly replacing bitcoin as a medium of exchange on darkmarkets, how crime fighters should deal with illegal activities that take place on them, why governments and regulators should not try to ban Monero, and where he sees this all heading.

Pauline Shangett: Of ChangeNow On Monero

May 13th, 2021  |  46 mins 12 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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.