Monero Talk

Monero Coffee Chat - 2019.03.09

March 9th, 2019  |  1 hr 58 mins

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Will Bitcoin ever have to raise the 21 million supply cap?

March 7th, 2019  |  54 mins 15 secs

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Round table w/ Matt Luongo (Founder @thesis_co) & @brian_trollz (of @blockdigest) to discuss the pros & cons of Bitcoin's capped coin supply vs. other methods like Monero's disinflationary emission curve!

Monero Network Upgrade and Cake Wallet updates with Knife of Pi

March 1st, 2019  |  30 mins 49 secs

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We talk with Knife of Pi of the Cake Wallet Team on the new features they just added to Cake, like the icloud backup option. We also chat about Monero's upcoming March 9th Network upgrade.

Breaking Monero Episode 10: Public Mining Pools

February 25th, 2019  |  19 mins 55 secs

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Public mining pools provide a service to miners, but they also reveal a lot of output information that observers can use to learn more about transactions. Sarang and Justin discuss the impact of these and ways users can optionally reduce their exposure to these risks.

MoneroBox is a super simple Monero full node

February 22nd, 2019  |  42 mins 20 secs

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We talk with Jason Wong about the super simple zero configuration Monero Full Node he has created. Now anyone can purchase and run a full node with just a quick plug-in.

What is Wownero? With lead developer @JWgealt

February 15th, 2019  |  52 mins 26 secs

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What is Wownero and should the Monero community care about it?
With John W. Murphy aka @jwgealt

Monero Coffee Chat - 2019.02.09

February 9th, 2019  |  56 mins 37 secs

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OpenBazaar & Monero a shared ethos w/ Brian Hoffman and Co.

February 8th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

bitcoin, blockchain, brianhoffman, crypto, cryptocurrency, cryptoshops, decentralized, mikegreenberg, monero, moneronews, ob1, openbazaar, openmarket, openmarketplace, privacy, privacycoin, steviezollo, technology, xmr, xmrnews

We talk with Brian Hoffman and his OB1 team, Stevie Zollo & Mike Greenberg on why open marketplaces like OpenBazaar and digital cash like Monero are necessary to preserve open and free societies in this internet age.

Breaking Monero Episode 09 Poisoned Outputs (EAE Attack)

February 8th, 2019  |  31 mins 41 secs

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Monero's ring signatures provide plausible deniability, but they aren't perfect. We model examples where two colluding parties 'E' attempt to learn information about an individual 'A.' By sending outputs to individuals and tracing their transaction graphs, these colluding parties may perform powerful statistical tests to learn significant information, especially for repeated transactions where they would not normally occur by chance.

Breaking Monero Episode 08 - Timing Attacks

February 5th, 2019  |  17 mins 22 secs

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Information on when users run nodes, sync wallets, and send transactions can be used to learn more about Monero users. We discuss some of the network topography concerns and offer some ways for users to mitigate their exposure to timing heuristics.