Monero Talk

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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.

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• Open Bazaar

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 they would not normally occur by chance.

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.

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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!

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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?

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• Alex Gladstein

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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.

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• Benjamin Earl Turner "JA RULE" Video

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.

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• Monero World

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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)

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• Coin Desk Crypto-Mining Malware Article

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.