MoneroKon Podcast

Liberation.travel

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...