Monero Talk

Luke Smith on Monero's Unique Self-Propelling Nature

June 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 26 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Luke Smith, a well known privacy and FOSS advocate.

Doug and Luke discuss the importance of privacy, the flaws of bitcoin that maximalist overlook, the benefits of Monero and what direction it is headed and if he sees crypto being the solution to the mass surveillance through technology.

Mark Moss on Monero

May 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 11 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Mark Moss. Mark is a successful investor and entrepreneur who has a knack for marketing. He runs a YouTube show with over a 258K 1/4 million subscribers that eloquently discusses his investment ideas. Often, bitcoin is discussed and Mark’s most popular video with almost a million views discusses his theories on the “war on cash”.

In this episode, Doug seeks to understand Marks strong bitcoin conviction and where Monero fits into his thesis, especially considering Marks strong warnings that cash is under attack. At one point Doug brings up the development of bitcoin to monero atomic swaps as an example of how active the Monero project is and how fears of delistings killing Monero’s liquidity, are probably moot.

It should be noted, since recording, it has been announced that the Comet team has taken btc xmr atomic swaps from test net to mainnet!

Charlie Lee: On the Importance of Fungibility In Crypto

May 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Charlie Lee, a crypto OG who needs no introduction.

Doug and Charlie discuss whether The top is in, Elon musk, Litcoin adding privacy, Monero’s future role in the cryptosphere, and more! Oh And an important piece of news —- litcoiin is now live on cake wallet!

As Doug discusses with Charlie, litecoin is a great onramp to Monero for those that don’t have access to an exchange that sells Monero for Fiat. Just buy Litecoin with fiat and send it for super low fees off the exchange to your LiteCoin cake wallet address. And then when ready, exchange it in Cake for fungible Monero! Thanks again Cake for making Monero more usable!

Pauline Shangett: Of ChangeNow On Monero

May 13th, 2021  |  46 mins 12 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Pauline Shangett, CMO at Change Now, a cryptocurrency exchange.

In this episode Doug and Pauline discuss the driving force behind the company, the obstacles they had to overcome to prove themselves to the monero community, how the highest rate of trading pairs has been between btc and xmr, as well as insight on how they are able to navigate certain KYC compliances and continue to remain an avenue for monero.

Juraj Bednar: on Bitcoin Mining Censorship

May 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 52 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Juraj Bednar, an entrepreneur, hacker, and explorer with a passion for increasing liberty in his and others lives—most famously through his cofounding of para-lelna polis.

Juraj is an early bitcoiner and monero enthusiast who has a deep understanding of the true purpose of cryptocurrency, which he discusses in his podcasts and blogs.

In this episode Doug and Juraj talk about many bitcoin and monero related topics but focus mainly on his blog titled “How could regulators, successfully introduce bitcoin censorship and other dystopias”.

Andrew Balthazor: The Bona Fide Acquisition Rule Applied to Cryptocurrency

April 30th, 2021  |  54 mins 14 secs

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Andrew Balthazor, currently a judicial law clerk at the United States district court For the southern district in Florida and author of a legal research paper that applies the bona fide acquisition rule to cryptcurrency.

The bona fide acquisition rule is a common law principal that originates from Roman Law, that allows an innocent purchaser to acquire certain types of stolen property free from the risk that the property may be claimed by the rightful owner. One such property that the rule applies to is cash.

Primarily, for the policy reason that in order for commerce to flow freely, innocent receivers of cash in a transaction should not be at risk of having someone claim ownership to the cash they received. Whereas with property like a painting ,the rule would not apply, and the innocent purchaser of a stolen painting would not be considered the rightful owner if it can be proven to have been stolen.

In this episode, Andrew discusses his analysis which focused on bitcoin and boils down to whether bitcoin should be considered cash-like or rather should be considered more like property with traceable title ownership given its transparent ledger. Doug and Andrew apply the same analysis to Monero, reasoning the bona fide acquisition rule would more clearly apply to Monero than Bitcoin, given Monero’s cash-like fungibility. The ultimate deduction being monero acts better as money than bitcoin.

Aleksandar Svetski: On Bitcoin's Transparent Ledger

April 23rd, 2021  |  1 hr 21 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Aleksandar CEO of Amber, podcaster, and a self declared Supreme Bitcoin Extreme Maxi.

In this episode Aleksander, discusses why he is a next level maxi and his rationale for why it is ok that bitcoin is and always will be transparent at the core protocol level.

Aleks believes Bitcoin’s true purpose is to be a censorship resistant settlement network, not a transactional network. Despite being an anarcho capitalist Alexs says he aligns more with bitcoin as opposed to Monero.

Seth Simmons on Bitcoin Mining Censorship and More

April 15th, 2021  |  1 hr 30 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Seth Simmons, an information security engineer by day and Monero enthusiast by night.

Seth has become a well known and respected Monero supporter with popular Tweet threads and a blog on things like Bitcoin’s fungibility flaws and explaining developments in the Monero space.

In this episode Seth discusses his journey into the crypto space, why he decided privacy and Fungibility are vital to cryptocurrency and some of his most popular recent takes —like his opinion of Signal adding Mobilecoin.

Peter Todd on Bitcoin's and Monero's Security Risks

April 6th, 2021  |  1 hr 12 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer and applied cryptographic consultant. Peter has been publicly discussing Monero as an interesting project from its earliest days. In fact, Doug reveals how he first learned of Monero from a Peter Todd Podcast.

In this episode Doug asks Peter a series of questions comparing bitcoin’s various security risks to Monero's, most notably they discuss Bitcoin’s most glaring security risk— a fixed coin supply that lacks a monero-like tail emission to insure miners will have an incentive to mine in perpetuity.

Richard Stallman: On Cash and Monero

March 31st, 2021  |  1 hr 14 mins

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Richard Stallman, an American free software movement activist, programmer and digital privacy activist best know for launching the GNU Project and founding the Free Software Foundation.

In this interview Doug seeks to understand Richard‘s Philosophy’s behind his activism, why his passion for providing humanity with more freedom and liberty through software and his pro digital privacy stance, does not make him more enthusiastic about a free software project like Monero.