Monero Talk

Bitcoin Drive Chain creator Paul Sztorc on BTC’s stagnation & Monero’s progress | EPI #297

January 17th, 2024  |  1 hr 30 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Paul Sztorc, an OG Bitcoiner and Dev and the inventor of Bitcoin drivechains.

The two discuss Topics including Bitcoin's stagnation, the potential of Monero to be the worlds digital cash protocol, issues with Lightning Network adoption, drivechains as a scaling solution, why Bitcoin has not adopted them and the possibility of Monero to do so. They also discuss Monero's superior privacy technology and utility for payments and the need for cryptocurrencies to provide actual utility beyond being a means of speculation.

Monero Town Update w/ Escuelita Bitcoin, Monero Price, News & MORE! | EPI #150

January 13th, 2024  |  3 hrs 46 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 EPISODE 150 - Monero Price Report with Bawdy, Co-host and News of the week w/ Tony, Special guest Escuelita Bitcoin to chat about Monero Town and MUCH MORE!

The Fight for Anonymous Digital Cash w/ Nopara EPI #296

January 12th, 2024  |  1 hr 29 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Nopara, the creator of Bitcoin's Wasabi wallet who has announced is he moving on from being the face of the project and will pursue other things.

The two discuss the need for uncensorable digital cash and what it will take to make it both unstoppable and user friendly, Does Monero already serve this purpose? What challenges are currently being faced by Bitcoin if it is digital cash?

The two also dive into Nopara's history with Wasabi wallet and the state of privacy on Bitcoin. Nopara also gives us his take on Samaurai v Wasabi. Please note, Doug hopes to have someone from the Samaurai project on soon to offer their response and take too.

Buying a Car using Monero w/ Monero Mac, Monero Price, News & MORE! | EPI #149

January 6th, 2024  |  2 hrs 46 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 EPISODE 149 - Monero Price Report with Bawdy, Co-host and News of the week w/ Tony, Special guest Monero mac to chat about how he purchased a car using Monero and MUCH MORE!

The Effect of Centralized Exchanges Delisting Monero w/ Nate EPI #295

January 3rd, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Nate aka Eat sleep Crypto, a privacy advocate & censorship-resistance maximalist who writes about crypto evaluations and tokenomics.

The two discuss Nate’s price analysis of Monero, particularly the value it derives from the unique utility it offers as untraceable digital cash, and given the usage of Monero beyond speculation, what he predicts will be in store for Monero in 2024 once it is delisted from Binance & much more!

MoneroTopia New Years Celebration! Holiday Special EPI #148

December 30th, 2023  |  3 hrs 13 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 EPISODE 148 - Pre-New Years Eve Celebration, 2024 predictions, Price Report, Monero News & More! EPI #148

Is Bitcoin’s censorship resistance failing? w/ Juraj Bednár EPI #294

December 28th, 2023  |  1 hr 34 mins

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TODAY'S SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Juraj Bednár, an OG Crypto anarchist and entrepreneur active in the Bitcoin and hacking communities.

Together they discuss censorship of certain Bitcoin transactions such as coinjoin, what would happen if a group of censoring mining pools would exceed 50% of the hash rate, how Monero’s total fungibility gives centralized actors deniability when questioned by the government compared to Bitcoin, possible solutions to Bitcoin’s fees and scaling problems, whether Bitcoin is living up to its crypto Anarchist roots and more!

New FinCEN regulations will label you “guilty until proven innocent “ for using any cryptocurrency privacy tool w/ Seth for Privacy

October 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 31 mins

bitcoin, blockchain, cakewallet, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, fincen, localmonero, monero, moneronews, monerotalk, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, sethforprivacy, stealth, technology, xmr, xmrnews

TODAY'S SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Seth for Privacy, a Privacy tech advocate and Head of Strategy and Marketing for Foundation devices.

The two discuss Seth’s Freedom.Tech article on the extreme proposal fincen announced last week to extend the patriot act to include all cryptocurrency privacy tools.

Doug and Seth breakdown Fincens proposed regulations. Discussing the false justifications they cite, the potential implications on the financial institutions that will have to comply with these regulations, the impact on the users of crypto privacy tools, what privacy tools the regulations as written cover, including whether Monero is one of them, the suspected real reason why fincen and legislators are motivated to attack crypto privacy tools, and ultimately why Monero users and the wider crypto privacy community should be optimistic and focused on opting out and building out a parallel economy outside of the State controlled fiat system.

Monerotopia Episode#20

June 22nd, 2021  |  1 hr 37 mins

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MONEROTOPIA: A laid back, chill out session with Chowbungaman, Sunchakr, special guests and Monero fans!

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