Monero Talk

Self-Custody Best Practices, Cake Wallet, and Monero with Seth for Privacy | EPI 391

August 8th, 2026  |  1 hr 59 mins

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TODAY'S SHOW: In this episode Seth for Privacy joins Douglas Tuman to discuss his recent deep dive into AI, particularly privacy-preserving ways to use AI while paying with Monero. The conversation then moves into Monero development, Zcash and its privacy tradeoffs, ASIC resistance and RandomX, tail emission and dynamic block size, and the current state of quantum-resistant cryptography.

Seth also discusses Monero's decentralized funding and governance model, potential attacks against the Monero community, wallet security, and the promising performance improvements being explored through Cuprate.

Celebrating Monero’s Birthday with some Cake | EPI 348

April 18th, 2025  |  1 hr 46 mins

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TODAY'S SHOW: The episode features a conversation between Douglas Tuman and Seth from Cake Wallet discussing Monero's 11th birthday and recent developments in the Cake Wallet ecosystem. Seth discussed several major updates to Cake Wallet, including background sync for Monero which allows wallets to stay synchronized automatically, and the implementation of a unified 12-word seed phrase system for all supported cryptocurrencies.

The conversation covered the upcoming FCMP (Full Chain Membership Proofs) implementation in Monero, with Seth estimating a timeline of 6-9 months for full deployment. Seth shared insights about Cake Wallet's integration with the Open Crypto Pay system, enabling seamless point-of-sale transactions in Switzerland. He also discussed the importance of maintaining a symbiotic relationship between Monero and other cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin and Litecoin, as they serve as valuable on-ramps to Monero.

The discussion concluded with Seth emphasizing the need for the Monero community to focus on improving user experience without compromising privacy, and to be more open to integration with existing cryptocurrency infrastructure like BTC Pay Server.

Seth For Privacy is back… on MoneroTopia! + Price Report, News of the week & MUCH More! | EPI 180

August 25th, 2024  |  3 hrs 22 mins

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MONEROTOPIA EPISODE 180 - Special Guest Seth For Privacy to chat about how he is working for Cake Wallet now! Plus Monero Price Report with Bawdy, News of the week & MUCH MORE!

Samourai Wallet SHUT DOWN? w/ Seth For Privacy & ArticMine, Price, News & MUCH More! | EPI 163

April 28th, 2024  |  4 hrs 29 mins

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MONEROTOPIA EPISODE 163 - Samourai Wallet Shut Down w/ Guests Seth for Privacy & Francisco Cabanas (ArticMine), Price Report w/ BawdyAnarchist, News of the week w/ Tony and much more!

LIVE from the Finney Forum in Dallas, Texas! News & MUCH More! EPI 158

March 16th, 2024  |  2 hrs 12 mins

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MONEROTOPIA 💃🏽🏝🕺🏼 EPISODE 158 - We are LIVE at the Finney Forum in Dallas, Texas! Monero Price Report with Bawdy, News of the week w/ Tux, Dev Report w/ Hundehausen special guests, SethForPrivacy, Mike Custom Tech and MUCH MORE!

Against Monero Maximalism with Seth For Privacy (Monerotopia23)

March 1st, 2024  |  1 hr 10 mins

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Monerotopia 2023 - El Dinero de la Gente🎉🇲🇽 📜 May 5 - May7 in Mexico City! We had AMAZING Speakers lined up: freedom seekers on a mission to build out a true digital cash parallel economy outside of State control. This was not a number go up maxi fest!

Speaker➡️: Seth For Privacy (Host of Opt Out Podcast)

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

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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.

Tornado Cash Ban, XMR Network upgrade w/ SethforPrivacy + Weekly XMR Price Report & MORE! Epi#78

August 15th, 2022  |  1 hr 26 mins

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