Monero Talk

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

December 28th, 2023  |  1 hr 34 mins

bitcoin, blockchain, censorship, crypto, cryptocurrency, fungible, hacking, jurajbednar, miningpool, monero, monerotalk, privacy, privacycoin, xmr

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

bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, monerotalk, monerotopia, privacy, privacycoin, technology, xmr, xmrnews

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

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