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0:44 We payed a visit to Gratuitas farmers!
05:26 Some news on the conference: five days to go!
9:16 Monero price report
15:15 #1 Guest: Luke Smith on El Salvador and Bitcoin "adoption", what are the problems of "digital gold"?
41:41 News segment
42:09 EU Parliament wants you to sign your bitcoin transactions
44:25 Haveno: only 174XMR left for a Monero DEX
47:12 Viewers on stage
47:30 Jack and CryptO-Bear on why Monero is useful
57:15 AV (Freenauts) and CTRAFFIK on their upcoming releases and Monerotopia live performance
1:09:42 Luke Smith, CTRAFFIK, Cryptobear and Jack on Bitcoin regulations and current global economics panorama.
1:21:57 Opensource Private digital cash issued by the government vs truly private and decentralized cash like Monero
1:39:53 Cryptovigilante free summit
1:40:13 Following on Opensource Private digital cash issued by the government vs truly private and decentralized cash like Monero

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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.

⏱Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Monerotalk Starts, About Luke's Content
2:40 - Discovering Luke, Talks Cryptos Main Use case
5:20 - Self Propelling Crypto Networks
10:00 - The problems with a layer 2 solution.
13:25 - Bitcoin was supposed to be what Monero is
19:09 - People that actually use crypto, use Monero
22:53 - Privacy importance, issues with Bitcoin
30:50 - Benefits of Monero
34:20 - Discovering Crypto, Bitcoin, Monero
36:55 - Importance of peer to peer transactions
38:50 - What is the Ted K. reference?
43:33 - Using Less Technology
45:40 - The Effects of Monero on the world
51:17 - Luke's area of expertise
54:30 - Is crypto Luke's passion?
56:27 - Monero as a 2nd layer to BTC
58:58 - Criticisms, Arguments against Monero,
1:05:20 - Monero Development team
1:08:03 - Luke's most popular content
1:09:44 - How followers respond to Monero content
1:16:40 - Explaining Monero to people/ Monero Outreach
1:21:55 - Final thoughts

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