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CipherTrace came out over the past few months with claims to be able to reliably trace certain Monero transactions. Apart from an interview with key members of the Monero team, not much follow-up on these claims took place. I interviewed several experts from several different privacy-enhanced cryptocurrency projects: Francisco Cabañas of the Monero core team, project steward at Zcoin Reuben Yap, CTO of Beam Alex Romanov, and Electric Coin Company COO David Campbell. This is what they had to say on the subject.

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Julian Chandra of LBRY comes on the podcast to talk about Odysee, the newest front-end to the LBRY decentralized content network, and how its streamlined interface can make the platform a true YouTube killer instead of another alternative site that struggles to get traction past its hardcore initial audience. We also talked about his former employer TikTok, and what the company got wrong in the end, and how Odysee intends to be different.

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The third installment of the Digital Cash Rundown with Jessica Payne of Edge! We cover the OKEx withdrawal shutdown, the US government cracking down on encryption and privacy coins, Twitter and YouTube censoring creators, and a lot more.

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David Campbell of the Electric Coin Company, the main development group for Zcash, comes on the podcast to discuss the coming privacy revolution in cryptocurrency, following much in the way that online encryption became mainstream. We also talked about Ciphertrace claiming to trace Monero transactions, as well as opsec required to actually stay private when transacting online.

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Crypto trader and YouTuber Davinci Jeremie comes on the podcast to talk about his recent banning from YouTube (thankfully short-lived) for undisclosed reasons, as well as the threat that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin pose to the financial system and its backers. We also go over the risks of keeping coins on exchanges, some general long-term market predictions, and Pandora's Wallet, a tool for advanced traders trying to keep custody of their own funds.

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Rion and Hilawe come on the podcast to talk about governance and the effects of economic incentives on Dash masternodes' decision-making process, including a thorough discussion on Nakamoto Consensus and the role of miners in making key governance decisions.

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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.

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Brian Hoffman, CEO of OB1, the main development group behind decentralized marketplace project OpenBazaar, comes on the podcast to talk about the project's recent funding issues, as well as potential future as a more purely community-driven project. We also talk about the commercial viability of cryptocurrency for payments today, and what really happened with the great SegWit2x and block size debate issue of 2017.

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Josiah Spackman of the DigiByte community comes on to ramble about Coinbase's apolitical move, BitMEX's founder getting arrested, LiteBringer bringing 100k+ new transactions to Litecoin, and a whole lot more. Leave a crypto superchat!

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Alex Romanov, tech lead for Beam, comes on the podcast to talk about the exciting world of advanced cryptocurrency privacy. We discuss MimbleWimble and the unique scalability and privacy mix it provides, as well as unique benefits as well as challenges. We also talk Lelantus, and how paired with MimbleWimble it can provide the best privacy-focused user experience available. Finally, we cover auditability in otherwise completely private cryptocurrencies.

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