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Displaying 2 items of Monero Talk with the tag "naveenspark".
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What’s happening with Tari? Naveen Spark on Building Privacy Beyond Money | EPI 395
September 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 36 mins
Privacy, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, fungible, layer2, monero, monerotalk, monerotopia, naveenspark, privacycoin, tari, xmr, zcash
TODAY'S SHOW: In this episode of Monero Talk, Douglas Tuman speaks with Naveen Spark, a main Tari contributor, to discuss the current privacy-coin landscape like Monero’s grassroots development model and the renewed attention around Zcash.
They then deep dive into Tari, including its upcoming November Layer 2 launch, the transition toward community governance through the Tari Council, programmable confidentiality, privacy-preserving applications, mining, and the role of proof-of-work. The conversation also covers Tari’s broader ecosystem and the community building around the project.
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Tari Mainnet is Live! | EPI 350
May 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 29 mins
Privacy, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, ethereum, flufflypony, fungible, monero, monerotalk, monerotopia, naveenspark, privacycoin, solana, tari, xmr
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.