Monero Talk

Tari Mainnet is Live! | EPI 350

May 7th, 2025  |  1 hr 29 mins

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TODAY'S SHOW: In this episdoe Douglas Tuman has a discussion about Tari, a new blockchain project, with the founders Naveen and Ricardo (@FluffyPony). The conversation covers multiple aspects of the project's development and launch.

Naveen emphasizes Tari's unique features, including its accessibility and user-friendly interface through Tari Universe. He explained that Tari offers default confidentiality powered by a minimal implementation, making it different from other protocols like Ethereum or Solana. Ricardo detailed the technical aspects of Tari's privacy features, comparing them to Monero but noting that Tari's privacy model is intentionally different.

Both founders highlighted the relationship with Monero, explaining that Tari's merge mining feature has already contributed to increasing Monero's hash rate to an all-time high. They emphasized that Tari is not competing with Monero but rather complementing it in the ecosystem.

Part II of The Future of Zano & the Cryptonote Protocol w/ Andrey Sabelnikov | EPI 307

April 9th, 2024  |  47 mins 39 secs

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TODAY'S SHOW: In part two of Douglas Tuman’s interview with Andrey starts with a discussion about cryptonote white paper author, Nicolas van Saberhagen, aka the Satoshi of Monero, and his potential thoughts on Monero and Zano and what he may think about how the CryptoNote protocol has evolved since inventing it.

The conversation delves into Zano's confidential assets feature and use cases such as creating a privacy-focused stable coin and decentralized bridges for exchanging assets from other blockchains. They also cover regulatory challenges and the project developments that make Monero and Zano censorship resistant.

The Future of Zano and the CryptoNote Protocol w/ Andrey Sabelnikov aka Zoidberg PT1 | EPI 306

April 4th, 2024  |  54 mins 35 secs

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TODAY'S SHOW: In part one of this two part episode, Douglas Tuman interviews Andrey Sabelnikov (aka Zoidberg) who worked alongside cryptonote inventor Nicolas Van Saberhagen as the lead developer of the first implementation of the Cryptonote protocol and who went on to create Zano — which can most simply be categorized as a privacy coin version of Ethereum.

Andrey discusses the recent breakthrough enhancements Zano has implemented with its most recent hardfork, Zarcanum. They discuss many new concepts related to Monero and Zano including the concept of confidential assets and private proof-of-stake consensus, and the bold claim that Monero will one day become proof of stake. Andrey even mentions recent conversations with Nicolas Van Saberhagen regarding his take on proof of stake and Monero in general.

Privacy in Focus ETH Denver w/ Luke Parker, SirJamz & Seth Estrada | EPI #301

March 3rd, 2024  |  1 hr 18 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews SirJamz, Luke Parker, and Seth Estrada while they are attending the ETH Denver conference. SirJamz had spent all week onboarding ETH Denver attendees to Monero and linked up with Luke and Seth for a privacy-related chat.

They discuss the latest developments in the Monero ecosystem and ultimately what Monero’s privacy and efficiency roadmap is, atomic swaps, Serai DEX, full membership proof update, some respected privacy coin projects, and even touch upon the hypothetical concept of private smart contracts on Monero.

Elizabeth BINKS on developing Monero-Ethereum Atomic Swaps

June 3rd, 2022  |  45 mins 57 secs

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