MoneroKon Podcast

Liberation.travel

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 cypherpunk movement of the early 1990s. It draws on Hayek’s theory of concurrent currencies and denati...

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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 censorship resistance. Mining pool architecture, attack vectors, and decentralized mining incentives....

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 larger cash-outs, and this presentation provides a roadmap for those wishing to legally buy land, property,...

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, and public services while reducing bureaucracy and strengthening individual sovereignty, with a strong e...

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. Across 2,714 logged events, split routing gain scales with trade size, averaging 0.38% at 8 BTC versus...

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.

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 sufficiently reliant on them. This power equation explains all institutional capture, including the sad corposl...

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. The goal of this talk is to have a quick overview of those two technologies and to compare them from p...

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 methods used in physical retail have evolved to become more digital, traceable, still relying on middle...

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 jurisdictionally-captured frontier labs shaping what can even be thought: this is the Four Horsemen of the AI State. But...

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 real-world attack. The Monero Simulator incorporates these elements, plus discrete asynchronous agentic mining p...

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 and stealth addresses impose real costs on the adversary’s ability to observe and act. Mises’ action axi...

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 significantly improve throughput and stability. Building on this, Universe represents a more theoretical second sta...

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 and shrinking their sizes.

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 services and building user trust.

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 16,000. The findings are stark: over 81% of reachable nodes exhibit the peer ID mismatch pattern the Mone...

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 working example: a cryptocurrency exchange where your SSH key is your account, swap history lives against...

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 a mostly paranoid userbase with strict privacy-preserving tastes. We’ll feature past and new features...

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 - This was made possible thanks to the community who supported a CCS Price feed and oracle bot Maker bot De...

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 blocks, big blocks and adaptive blocks. We will use the the proposed Full Chain Membership Proofs++, FCMP++,...

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 save lives during emergencies and make digital communication more efficient. I will give examples of mesh...

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 to support FCMP++, the impact FCMP++ on spam attacks, and the critical importance of the tail emission...

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 decisions, free from external force. I’ll be discussing how cryptocurrency—decentralized, pseudonymous...