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MoneroKon Podcast
by MoneroKon
A conference & hackathon in privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems Monero Konferenco (“MoneroKon”) is an annual meeting of privacy advocates, cypherpunks, researchers, and developers and is designed to disseminate scientific and technical results in privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems. Site :MoneroKon
Episodes
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Impact of AI on cryptoanarchy
Artificial intelligence is the most powerful surveillance and control technology ever invented — and every state that can get its hands on it will deploy it against you. CBDCs with behavioral triggers, client-side chat control, predictive pre-crime enforcement, and a handful of...
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How to Bring Crypto into Meatspace
How do we bring permissionless digital cash from our wallets into everyday life – into supermarkets, cafés, and corner shops? For more than a decade, crypto has lived mostly on screens: on centralized exchanges, inside speculative narratives and in online shops. Although the conventional payment...
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Privacy in Monero and Lightning: what it actually is
We are used to think about Monero as privacy-oriented technology, but what it actually means? Let’s briefly recap how Monero works nowadays and what is actually visible for external observer. Then let’s take a look on Lightning (a Bitcoin layer), how it works and what kind of privacy it provides....
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Permissionless
We are facing an onslaught of intrusive regulation, especially in the digital world: age verification, chatcontrol, kill-switches in cars, and self-incrimination thru mandatory reporting of digital assets. All because centralised institutions can afford to “boil the frog” when people are...
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Lightning versus Monero
I outline several privacy flaws in monero that have resulted in successful prosecution of monero users. I also show how these flaws could have been addressed if the targets had used the lightning network instead.
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Liquidity Fragmentation in Non-Custodial XMR Markets
Non-custodial swap aggregators show users the best single-exchange rate, but is that actually optimal execution? This talk presents empirical findings from a live BTC→XMR aggregator across 23+ exchanges, examining whether splitting trades can improve outcomes. The answer: yes, but only sometimes....
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Liberland: Sovereignty, Privacy, and Governance Beyond the State
Liberland is a sovereign country advancing voluntary governance, contribution based meritocracy, and crypto native public infrastructure, where influence is earned through participation rather than assigned by status. This talk explores how decentralized technologies support governance, voting…
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Monero Offramps for the CBDC Era: The Carbon Credit Loophole
The talk will focus on how future surveillance mechanisms, such as carbon credits and the “Green Agenda,” can allow Monero holders to offramp their crypto into the real economy and purchase large assets with their coins. Unfortunately, XMR has an unfair stigma attached to it when it comes to…
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Threat Modelling a State Sponsored Attack
In this presentation, I will explore the security assumptions of PoW networks and why only nation-states pose a risk. We will discuss the impact of a 51% attack, how it would be carried out, and the incentives/disincentives to do so. PoW’s economic security model, blockspace as a free market, and...
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BasicSwap Mobile - Monero atomic swaps on a phone
No chain sync, No download, No account required. Sponsored by WizardSwap.io BasicSwap Mobile delivers a P2P Taker Style atomic swap service for XMR and other coins that will integrate into popular Crypto Wallets you love and use! Decentralized. Liquid. Private. Secure.
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Monero in the Cypherpunk and Libertarian Tradition
This talk makes the case that Monero represents a working piece of counter-economic infrastructure in the sense proposed by Samuel Edward Konkin III.The presentation situates Monero within the broader intellectual lineage running from Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism and Konkin’s agorism through the...
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Liberation.travel - Vote With Your Feet
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Monero Scaling, and Security. The Priced Adaptive Blocksize Fee Market
Monero combines a priced adaptive block weight based upon the CryptoNote excess size penalty with a constant block reward or tail emission.of 0.6 XMR per block. This leads to a unique fee market that can provide insight into the fee markets found in Bitcoin like crypto currencies with small…
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State of EVM-XMR atomic swaps
Since the announcement of a rewrite of EVM-XMR atomic swaps at MoneroKon 5 the project has progressed quite a lot. This talk aims at updating the audience on the current state of the project, it will cover the following items: How swaps work, deposits, funding requests, seeds, … Web GUI tour…
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Monerujo: designing for imaginary people
The Monerujo team wants to share with you all the thought processes and design choices we take when designing a wallet for a future where Monero is a true p2p currency, which means widely used by normal people in everyday situations. Also the challenges and assumptions we face when doing that for…
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The Terminal is the App: Privacy-First Software over SSH
The browser won the app platform war, and with it came fingerprinting, ad tech, session replay, and an ever-growing attack surface we’ve quietly accepted as the cost of doing business. This talk argues for a different path — distributing apps over SSH, rendered as TUIs — and backs it up with a...
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Mapping Spy Node Dominance in the Monero P2P Network
Monero’s cryptographic privacy is well-established but its P2P layer is a different story. Using Nebula, ProbeLab’s open-source network crawler, we conducted the first large-scale topological crawl of the Monero network, discovering over 29,000 nodes and successfully handshaking with more than...
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A Study of Trust in Digital Distributed Services
This presentation outlines a sociological study and statistical analysis of user trust in digital tools. The study addresses the following questions: What factors influence user trust? How do secure and anonymous technologies affect user trust? The findings are important for positioning digital...
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SLVer Bullet: Straight-Line Verification for Bulletproofs
Bulletproofs is a critical piece of infrastructure for cryptocurrencies like Monero, permitting users to prove that the amount in a transaction is small, preventing overflow errors and inflation bugs. We present an enhanced version of Bulletproofs tailor-made for Monero, speeding up range proofs...
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Monero Republic and the Future of Monero Scalability
This talk discusses the fundamental scalability challenges facing Monero, and demonstrates a radical upgrade pathway to address them. The approach consists of two sequential upgrades: Republic and Universe. Republic introduces a transition to a quorum-based consensus model, aiming to…
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The Praxeology of Privacy: Monero as Economic Argument
Privacy tools are usually defended on technical grounds: better cryptography, stronger anonymity sets, harder to trace. That framing concedes too much. This talk draws on The Praxeology of Privacy to make the economic case. When surveillance is cheap, control is cheap. Confidential transactions…
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Selfish Mining Simulator
Selfish mining literature has traditionally focused on MDP to probe for theoretically ideal strategies. However, these fail to integrate crucial factors like network latency, difficulty adjustment, and node/pool internal processing delays, which can significantly affect the outcome of a…
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Juraj B. - Fellow Monerites, are we lost? (MoneroKon 2025)
Remember when Linux users went for “like Windows, but cheaper?”. They’ve lost their edge - libre, better, customizable, loved by users, stable and performant. Are we Monero folks just “Bitcoin with better privacy,” clinging to a fading dream? Network effects are kicking our ass—money loves a…
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afungible - Unleashing the Flood: Stress-Testing the Monero Network (MoneroKon 2025)
On 2022-08-12, the Monero network was stress-tested with ~50,000 transactions and under $1,000 in fees in 24 hours, triggering “dynamic block sizing” for the first time, and highlighting performance constraints. Under peak load, a few nodes crashed, and the average confirmation times rose from...
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Jeremy Rand - SocksTrace: A Proxy Leak Detector for Anonymity-Focused Network Applications (MoneroKon)
Monero has excellent transaction-level privacy, and things should get even better soon with FCMP++s. But these innovations aren’t sufficient if you have deanonymization vectors on the network level. Tor gives you network privacy in theory — but how do you know your Monero wallet isn’t leaking…
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Joseph The Parrot - Beyond the FGC9: Shaping the Next Steps of True Liberty (MoneroKon 2025)
1.The basics of the legal circumstances both inside and outside the USA. 2.The New Second Amendment: Self defense is a universal human right, regardless of nationality. 3.The three design objectives of The New Second Amendment and the triple constraint they form. 4.The FGC-9 was the first attempt...
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Yu - Eclipse attacks on Monero peer-to-peer network (MoneroKon 2025)
While the decentralised nature of Distributed Ledger Technology systems suggests the absence of a central authority, it does not eliminate the possibility of supernodes within the network. To investigate this, we collected peerlist data from TCP flows, validated our connection inference…
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stringhandler - Tari: The challenges with P2pool and merge mining Monero ( MoneroKon 2025)
A quick overview of the challenges we encountered with implementing P2pool with merge mining monero and how we overcame them.
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Marcel Plch - We allowed cyberpunk dystopia without the good stuff (MoneroKon 2025)
Money is now primarily digital, under full control of the governments or respective organs, corporations hoard wealth like never before, FIAT money, which is what most people have, loses drastically on value due to inflation. Yet, there is no cool cyberware, no Shinkanzen trains in almost all...
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deki - How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Connect to Privacy and Crypto (MoneroKon 2025)
This presentation explores the intersection of Ayn Rand’s philosophical principles, particularly her emphasis on individualism and personal sovereignty, with the concept of privacy in the context of cryptocurrency. Rand championed the right of individuals to control their own lives, property, and...
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Francisco "ArticMine" Cabanas - The FCMP++ Monero Fee Market – Post-Emission Fee Market Implications (MoneroKon 2025)
Monero uses an adaptive block weight based upon the CryptoNote excess size penalty with a short term median over the last 100 blocks, bytecoin.org/old/whitepaper.pdf This leads to the Monero fee market. We will consider the impact of FCMP++ on this fee market. In the particular necessary changes…
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Robert Blinov - The Value of P2P Networks (MoneroKon 2025)
In my talk, I will describe the advantages (and pitfalls) of P2P networks, including how they can help bypass censorship, as well as needless centralisation like ICANN’s domain-name monopoly. I will explain the value of mesh networks and their great untapped potential — how they can be used to…
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Martin Arness - Monero After DAC8: Building Anonymous Off-Ramps (MoneroKon 2025)
The EU’s DAC8 directive, alongside MiCA and CARF, is the next phase of global financial surveillance - mandating centralized exchanges to report user holdings and transactions straight to tax authorities. This talk explores what that means for the future of privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies…
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Alan Szepieniec - Post-Quantum Anonymous Transactions without Signatures (MoneroKon 2025)
Nearly all blockchains in existence use digital signature schemes for unlocking funds for expenditure, even though this primitive is overkill for that purpose. A commitment scheme suffices, as long as the opening protocol binds to the transaction. Moreover, and perhaps surprisingly, this…
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Harry Halpin - How NymVPN works: A decentralized privacy-first VPN and mixnet (MoneroKon 2025)
Nym is a noise-generating mixnet built on top of a decentralized network. By adding noise and mixing packets in its anonymous overlay network with per-packet routing, it accomplishes superior privacy to existing VPNs and even Tor. It also offers a “fast” mode that turns mixing off and offers…
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Aaron Feickert - Mnemonic seeds for risky situations (MoneroKon 2025)
An important but overlooked use case for digital asset mnemonic seeds is risky situations like border crossings, where inspection or seizure of property could make possession of a written mnemonic dangerous. How can these situations be handled safely? We will look at existing approaches with a...
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hbs - Reviving EVM-based Monero Atomic Swaps (MoneroKon 2025)
As Monero continues to be regularly delisted from centralized exchanges, P2P services, and decentralized exchanges, atomic swaps are bound to attract increased liquidity. While BTC-XMR atomic swaps have made a lot of progress, Ethereum-based ones have stalled after their initial momentum. This…
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CJ & Sean Coughlin - Grease: a mimimal payment channel implementation for Monero (Monerokon 2025)
Off-chain payment channels have tremendous utility. Thousands of transactions can be aggregated every minute without consuming block space; and seamless point-of-sale transactions would make Monero purchases feel no different to using a credit card or Venmo. Unfortunately, payment channels…
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jeffro256 - Planned and speculative block changes in Monero (MoneroKon 2025)
There are a few planned changes to Monero’s consensus protocol revolving around the block format. A tweak to the PoW algorithm, RandomX, would allow for stability against DoS attacks with significant improvements to negative testing speed in the average case. On the FCMP++ side, to allow for...
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Aaron Feickert - Rings and trees: how to prove coin ownership (MoneroKon 2025)
The current Monero protocol uses linkable ring signatures to prove coin ownership in a way that doesn’t leak the specific coin. But other designs do things differently! In this talk, we’ll look at different approaches to proving ownership in digital asset protocols: Monero (today and tomorrow!),...
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Anhdres - Hooks & Loops (MoneroKon 2025)
This talk begins with a dissection of life’s winding paths, exploring the choices and paths that brought each of us to MoneroKon. We’ll look at how well-known members of the Monero community first discovered Monero, pinpointing the specific moments or details that made it stick to them. Then…
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Rucknium - OSPEAD: Optimal Ring Signatures (MoneroKon 2025)
OSPEAD estimates the age distribution of the real spend in Monero’s ring signatures. Monero’s decoy selection algorithm could be changed to closely mimic the real spend age distribution, yet an anti-privacy adversary can also use the real spend distribution to execute the MAP Decoder attack on…
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Justin Ehrenhofer - Overview of the Last Year of Audits, Reviews, and Proofs (MoneroKon 2025)
This presentation gives an overview of Monero reviews and audits related to FCMP++ and Serai. Justin from MAGIC Grants will discuss the importance of these reviews, how the vendors were selected, what their outcomes were, and what is next. Founder of Moonstone Research, senior director at NAXO,...
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Rucknium, Boog900, xenu - Defeating Spy Nodes on the Monero Network (MoneroKon 2025)
According to recent analysis by the Monero Research Lab, one or more anti-privacy adversaries have set up many spy nodes on the Monero network, composing up to 40 percent of reachable node addresses. Connections to these spy nodes would make up an estimated 15 percent of the privacy-sensitive...
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Luke Szramowski - FCMP Divisors: The Inside Scoop (MoneroKon 2025)
Luke Szramowski from Cypher Stack talks about some of the difficulties regarding the research into divisors. Luke Szramowski is a mathematical researcher, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and two Master’s Degrees, one in Math, with a focus in Number Theory and another in Math with a focus…
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Moneromooo, narrated by Syksy - Townforge (Remote)
An overview of the aspects of Townforge Video link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1i6EgP8_AEU
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Sowle & Koe - Zarcanum: A Proof-of-Stake Scheme for Confidential Transactions with Hidden Amounts
Zarcanum (ZPoS) is a first ever secure and private blockchain consensus scheme that enhances traditional Proof of Stake with untraceability and hidden amounts.
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Andriy Khavryuchenko - Practicing Anarchism
An introduction to practicing anarchism from ab initio to real life. What is necessary to live free and why. How to build it and challenges in doing so.
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anhdres - Welcome to the Garden
Discover a serene Monero oasis in the Welcome to the Monero Garden! Explore secure, private crypto transactions in an engaging community setting
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Dominique Schröder PayMo： Verifiable Timed Linkable Ring Signatures For Scalable Payments For Monero
Unleash the power of privacy with Monero’s scalable payments! Explore Verifiable Timed Linkable Ring Signatures for secure, anonymous transactions
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A conference & hackathon in privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems
Monero Konferenco (“MoneroKon”) is an annual meeting of privacy advocates, cypherpunks, researchers, and developers and is designed to disseminate scientific and technical results in privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems.
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