Monero Talk

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.

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.

Cayle Sharrock of Tari Labs Take Two

June 8th, 2019  |  43 mins 10 secs

Privacy, bitcoin, blockchain, caylesharrock, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, monero, moneronews, privacycoin, tari, tarilabs, technology, xmr, xmrnews

We redo an interview we did at the Magical Crypto Conference 2019 where we had poor sound quality.

LIVE w/ Naveen Jain of Tari at the MCC2019

May 11th, 2019  |  11 mins 33 secs

Privacy, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, magicalcryptoconference2019, magicalcryptofriends, mcc2019, monero, moneronews, naveenjain, privacycoin, tari, technology, xmr, xmrnews

LIVE w/ Naveen Jain of Tari at the MCC2019

Is Monero digital cash? w/ Riccardo Spagni aka Fluffypony

April 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 17 mins

Privacy, bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, decentralized, digitalcash, fluffypony, monero, moneronews, privacycoin, riccardospagni, tari, technology, xmr, xmrnews

We asked Riccardo Spagni, aka @fluffypony, aka the CEO (Chief Entertainment Officer) of Monero some big questions !
Is Monero the truest crypto currency of them all? Is Monero humanities greatest hope against the rise of surveillance capitalism?
What motivates you to work in Monero? Are you a crypto anarchist or cypherpunk trying to build tech that will give humans more liberty ?
Is Monero more aligned with cypherpunk/cryptoanarchist ideals than bitcoin? Why aren’t the idealist Bitcoiners like Andreas Antonopolous more serious about Monero ?
Is bitcoin is dangerous because it fools very smart people into opting into a future where all our transactions on our transparent ledger?
Do we even have want to be added to Coinbase now? Not being added seems to be the best indicator that we are doing something right. Coinbase can’t handle true digital cash.
What are reproducible builds? Will they help make Monero more decentralized in terms of development?
Is bitcoin digital gold? Isn’t Monero be better digital gold since it’s fungible at the protocol level?
Do you think it will be one coin to rule them all?
How do you feel about the state of Monero today? Are we currently digital cash? Have we achieved it ?
Is Monero’s mining more decentralized than Bitcoin’s?
What strategy will Monero be taking to thwart ASICs?
When will ASICs become commoditized and when we will we welcome them on the Monero network?
What can be done to prevent an undetectable inflation bug in Monero ? Is it possible to be perfectly binding and blinding?
What do you think about Monero’s tail emission v Bitcoin’s fixed supply ? Is Monero effectively more secure because of it? Is it possible that one day Bitcoin’s max cap will have to be raised? Isn’t gold disinflationary like Monero?
What do people mean when they say Monero can’t scale? We have dynamic blocksizes? Is it that transactions and the blockchain are too large and you can’t run full nodes? Won’t moors law save us?
Will Monero have Lightning Network?
Will it have a Mimblwimble sidechain?
Why isn’t an ICO use case for Tari ever discussed?
What do you think of the new SEC guidance? Is it another reason why we should move away from pow tweaks?