TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Vasili, a software developer from Helsinki, who has developed an application called CryptoPoll that utilizes the ring signature concept from Monero.

The application aims to enable anonymous voting, surveys, and whistleblowing by leveraging the privacy features of ring signatures. Vasili demonstrates how it works and explores potential use cases for CryptoPoll.

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews defense lawyers Tor Ekeland and Mike Hassard about the recent trial and conviction of their client Roman Sterlingov for allegedly operating the Bitcoin mixing service Bitcoin Fog.

They highlight how the government relied on circumstantial blockchain tracing analysis rather than direct evidence to make its case, the lack of standards with blockchain tracing tools, threats to financial privacy rights, next steps for appealing the case & much more!

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/ky_euJ4067o Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/roman-sterlingov-guilty-of-running:4 Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-304

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Sam Bent (aka DoingFedTime), an ex-darknet market vendor, about the recent shutdown of the Incognito darknet market.

They discuss the incident details, analyze common issues with these markets, and explore ideas for more decentralized marketplaces.

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Blake Lovewell a researcher, writer, and privacy advocate.

The two discuss topics related to privacy, censorship resistance, decentralization, Bitcoin, Monero and the cypherpunk ideology. Blake covers his background researching macroeconomics, politics and technology. They examine increasing censorship attempts towards Monero, including recent exchange de-listings, as signs of success.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/S4iMjJKbg4w Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/monero-vs.-the-surveillance-state-w:e Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-302

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews SirJamz, Luke Parker, and Seth Estrada while they are attending the ETH Denver conference. SirJamz had spent all week onboarding eth Denver attendees to Monero and linked up with Luke and Seth for a privacy related chat.

They discuss the latest developments in the Monero ecosystem and ultimately what Monero’s privacy and efficiency roadmap is, atomic swaps, Serai DEX, full membership proof update, some respected privacy coin projects, and even touch upon the hypothetical concept of private smart contracts on Monero.

They also talk about the importance of privacy and censorship-resistance in blockchains and analyze the tradeoffs with different privacy solutions.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/GhNljgiQKp8 Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/privacy-in-focus-eth-denver-w-luke:8 Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-epi-301

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW:

Douglas Tuman interviews Lando Rothbardian, CEO of online retailer ShopInBit, which accepts Bitcoin and Monero for payment.

The discussion explores Lando's background, how ShopInBit started accepting Monero, Monero privacy protections, ShopInBit product offerings, the impacts of exchange delistings, business expansion plans & much more!

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman catches up with Dr. Kapil and CG of the BasicSwap team. Basicswap participated in last years MoneroTopia and we hope to have them again this year in Argentina.

In this episode they discuss the progress that has been made since presenting at MoneroTopia23, the latest functionality and the roadmap of the BasicSwap decentralized exchange (DEX). They provide an overview of the team, the atomic swap implementation that basic swap uses, user experience, and plans to improve accessibility.

Key metrics about usage and liquidity are shared, as well as thoughts on driving adoption into the future. Special thanks to BasicSwap for being one of the first to build the decentralized bridges Monero needs to flourish, in-spite of the delistings from centralized exchanges.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/7bhQNgVoeq8 Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/binance-delists-xmr%2C-basicswap-steps-in:f Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-kapil-basicswap-epi-299

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The Most Useful Tool for Freedom w/ Gabriel Custodiet (MT #298)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews, Gabriel Custodiet, host of the Watchman Privacy Podcast.

They cover Monero's superiority in terms of privacy and utility, regulatory concerns about privacy tech like Monero and Bitcoin, CoinJoins, the philosophy behind individual freedom, the need for cultural changes rather than just relying upon freedom tools, and the role of adversarial thinking in protecting privacy.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/1NyqEGwFecM Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/the-most-useful-tool-for-freedom-w:1 Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/gabriel-custodiet-epi-298

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Paul Sztorc, an OG Bitcoiner and Dev and the inventor of Bitcoin drivechains.

The two discuss Topics including Bitcoin's stagnation, the potential of Monero to be the worlds digital cash protocol, issues with Lightning Network adoption, drivechains as a scaling solution, why Bitcoin has not adopted them and the possibility of Monero to do so.

They also discuss Monero's superior privacy technology and utility for payments and the need for cryptocurrencies to provide actual utility beyond being a means of speculation.

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Hello Monero Land! Happy New Year!!!

Monero Talk is looking for a little help for the show! This is NOT a full time job - but more of a small gig! We are looking for someone that can help us out with post production show work. If you like watching our episodes, why not get tipped for listening to them! ;)

Task:

• Listen to interviews and come up with a short yet thorough intro for each episode, tweets, etc.

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TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Juraj Bednár, an OG Crypto anarchist and entrepreneur active in the Bitcoin and hacking communities.

Together they discuss censorship of certain Bitcoin transactions such as coinjoin, what would happen if a group of censoring mining pools would exceed 50% of the hash rate, how Monero’s total fungibility gives centralized actors deniability when questioned by the government compared to Bitcoin, possible solutions to Bitcoin’s fees and scaling problems, whether Bitcoin is living up to its crypto Anarchist roots and more!

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Where Bitcoin fails as censorship resistant digital cash, Monero thrives w/ Ragnar Lafthrasir (MT #293)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Ragnar Lifthrasir, an OG Bitcoiner who has increasingly become a staunch support of Monero in light of Bitcoins lack of privacy and fungibility. He is launching a new conference this year called the “Finney Forum” which focuses on Bitcoin privacy tech & Monero.

Together they discuss how Ragnar realized through the gun community some of the flaws of Bitcoin that Monero could fix, what will happen to Bitcoin if the state seizes control? What effect would a ban on Monero have and could it take Monero adoption to the next level? The drama in the Bitcoin community in contrast to the Monero community's cohesion. Doubts about Bitcoin’s censorship resistance in regards to Ocean mining censoring Samourai wallet and Ordinals and more!

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/RslcbPKtW9U

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