Monero Talk

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: A chat with Mitchell Krawiec-Thayer of the Monero Research lab on his involvement in Monero, an explanation of dynamic blocksize and the recent upgrades made to avoid Big Bang attacks, and his opinion on some of the big questions in Monero Land. Links of topics discussed can be found in comments s...

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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! Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple.co/34W7FVp SPOT...

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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. (**They have also created an android since then) Links: Cake Wallet: https://cakewallet.io/ Listen & Reac...

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.

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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. Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple.co/34W7FVp SPOTIFY:  https://spoti.fi/2t1y9b4 GOOGLE P...

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: What is Wownero and should the Monero community care about it? With John W. Murphy @jwgealt Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple.co/34W7FVp SPOTIFY:  https://spoti.fi/2t1y9b4 GOOGLE PLAY: https://bit.ly/363JYMo STITCHER:  https://bit.ly/2tUcIck WEBSITE: ht...

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: 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. Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple.co/34W7F...

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 the...

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.

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Live Streaming of New York City Monero Enthusiasts and Doers Meetup on February 2, 2019. Sponsored by Cake Wallet & Monero Talk with special guest Justin Ehrenhofer! Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple.co/34W7FVp SPOTIFY:  https://spoti.fi/2t1y9b4 GOOGLE P...

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: We ask Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation if we should worry about Bitcoin becoming a surveillance tool and why aren't those who laud Bitcoin for its liberating potential also focused on helping the Monero project, when it appears to be a truer form of digital cash? Listen & Reach o...

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Joining us is Benjamin Earl Turner, a very talented up and coming music artist, and his director, Abteen Bagheri who together recently released a video called "JA RULE". The music video, which is from Benjamin's EP titled "FUCK", is riddled with crypto and in particularly Monero references. Listen...

Remote nodes are convenient, and many wallets are configured to use them by default. Unfortunately, there are privacy and security limitations when users rely on others to provide copies of blockchain data. We discuss some of these limitations, some remote node attacks, and how to mitigate against them.

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Researchers Sergio Pastrana and Guillermo Suarez-Tangil discuss their recently published report that estimates at least 4.32 percent of the total monero in circulation has been mined with Malware. (720k xmr) Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple.co/34W7FVp SPOTIFY:&n...

In this short episode, we discuss the unfortunate tradeoff when sending Monero transactions with unusual ringsizes. Some transactions were sent with ringsizes over 1000. Monero moved to consensus-mandated ringsizes in a recent update instead of minimum ringsizes. Thus, the concerns in this video serve an informative purpose, but they do not have any current relevance.

In this episode, Sarang and Justin explain more about how Monero selects decoys for ring signatures, more than just "randomly." We explain how Monero's selection algorithm has evolved over time, and how a strong input selection algorithm is critical for protective ring signatures.

In this episode, Sarang, Brandon (Suare), and Justin introduce key image reuse concerns. We explain some techniques to protect security and privacy under a number of circumstances. Ultimately, users should not claim "airdrop" funds if they have not thought long and hard about the implications.

Sarang and Justin discuss 0-decoy (0-mixin) rings, perhaps the oldest and best-studied past limitation of Monero. We discuss how research created for 0-decoy rings can be applied to other analysis types. We show a spreadsheet tool we use to test chain reaction impacts, which can be caused by a large number of possible Monero attacks. By understanding the basics of 0-decoy research, individuals can...

We discuss the history of Monero's ring signatures and past approaches to improve them.

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE ! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Grayson Earl joins on the show to talk about his project, Bail Bloc -- a computer program that bails people out of jail by letting people easily mine Monero using their extra computing power and to seamlessly donate to the cause. Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES:  https://apple...

Welcome to the first episode of Breaking Monero! Breaking Monero is a series of episodes where we explain the limitations of Monero’s security and privacy in a comprehensive and understandable way. We give a sneak peek into some of the work done behind the scenes to evaluate risks and to make Monero better. It’s an ongoing process, and we are happy to have you here along with us for this part of M...