Francisco Cabañas of Monero on Ciphertrace and Cryptocurrency Privacy and Scaling

Francisco Cabañas, a.k.a. ArticMine, of the Monero core team comes on the podcast to discuss all things privacy, beginning with Monero's approach to obfuscating transactions by making privacy-enhancing functions mandatory as well as hiding transaction amounts. We also go into scaling and the concept of using an adaptive block size combined with a tail emission to permanently solve scaling issues, as well as Ciphertrace, the project that alleges it can track Monero transactions. Donate - Sponsors Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my CoinTree link. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx Support us by checking out our sponsors! Protect your privacy online, sign up to NordVPN with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, or just $3.71 per month, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? Join LBRY! - https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c Want to live on crypto? Use Bitrefill to buy gift cards or pay mobile bills from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries quickly, safely, and privately. - https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=rRIQPc1m If don't want search engines like Google controlling your search results and selling your information, join Presearch and get paid to search! - https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012 Music from https://www.zapsplat.com