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2:21 – • Andrew Tate's Privacy & Freedom Lessons 4:32 - • Why You Should Fear Cybercrime 7:48 - • Paul Rosenberg: Of Anarchy and Abolition 11:58 - • Standard Notes: Model Privacy Software 18:32 - • Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons with Carey Parker 27:20 - • All About Linux w/ The Linux Experiment 33:03 - • Leaving Humanity: The Technocratic Worldview with Joe Doran 40:08 - • Intro to **Monero**: With Seth for Privacy 45:24 - • Samourai Wallet: Waging War on Fiat 49:21 - • Sparrow Wallet with Craig Raw 52:27 - • Tor Part I: History and Basic Features 56:30 - • What is Private Email? Andrew Milich from Skiff 58:17 - • Jayant Bhandari: The Empire Strikes Back 59:55 - • “An Unencrypted Hard Drive on Wheels:” Car Privacy with Andrea Amico 1:02:26 - • James Wesley, Rawles: Private Guns, Economic Collapse, and Survival 1:07:05 - • Bitcoin Privacy Reignited with BitcoinQnA 1:12:02 - • The Politics of Bitcoin (Zelko & Samourai Wallet)

Monero WishfulAlbatross • Now • 76%

Borrowing ideas to improve Monero...

****1. Double Spend Proofs**** Improves: Convenience, security, and transaction speed BCH has "instant" 0-conf transactions. I think XMR might be able to achieve something similar (although maybe not as fast because of Dandelion++) since both don't have RBF. This would make 0-conf transactions safer for smaller amounts and the vast majority of use cases. - https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/Tech/what-is-0-conf - https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/Tech/what-is-0-conf#double-spend-proofs-dsps ****2.**** ~~Decentralized Governance~~ ****Network Upgrade Consensus**** Improves: ~~Decentralization~~ Wider reaching and more explicit consensus from Monero network for upgrades So far, Monero's governance has worked out for it and there has been little to no contention with it's direction within the community. But XMRs governance is not as ideally decentralized as it should be. Again, I'm taking inspiration from another aspect of BCH that I think it does well. Their "CHIP" process, or a variation, is something XMR community should think about and consider adopting to make Monero more robust to capture. - https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/Decentralisation/how-does-BCH-governance-work - https://bch.info/en/chips - https://gitlab.com/im_uname/cash-improvement-proposals/-/blob/master/CHIPs.md - Example: https://github.com/cashtokens/cashtokens/blob/master/stakeholders.md ****3. Client Side Validation**** Improves: Privacy and scalability This one was inspired by a BTC project called RGB. >"RGB can scale in terms of transaction throughput, data size and network size. It doesn't keep any data on-chain (in any blockchain)..." >"No chain analysis is possible due to the absence of a transaction graph in blockchain. RGB uses zero-knowledge to protect the history of a fungible state. With RGB, the user is always in-charge of when, and what parts of the history and state to disclose, if needed." - - https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021732.html - - https://rgb.tech/ - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_lNNopDJ0 (skip to 38:10) ****4. Succinct STARK proofs for Monero blockchain**** Improves: Greatly reduce space and time required to sync a node Another couple BTC projects that Monero might be able to take advantage of. >"Currently transactions specify inputs and outputs, and verifying an input requires you to know the whole state of the system. With Utreexo, the holder of funds maintains a proof that the funds exist, and provides that proof at spending time to the other nodes. These proofs are compact (under 1KB) but do represent the main downside in the utreexo model they present an additional data transmission overhead which allows much smaller state." - - https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo - - https://zerosync.org/ - - https://nipopows.com/ ****5. Opportunistic Encryption**** Possible improvement: Privacy and anonymity for Monero node communication I'm actually unsure if this would just be completely redundant for Monero nodes. But thought to mention it just in case. Maybe it can help hide any residual metadata between peers, or offer an addtional layer, that Monero might not already cover. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0324.mediawiki `*I want to know your opinions on these ideas. Let me know in the comments if you have any ideas from other projects that might benefit Monero too.*`

Monero WishfulAlbatross • Now • 100%

Does the Monero community have donations for a general legal fund?

https://monero.town/post/2251 The recent LocalMonero cash-by-mail fiasco got me thinking about this. If there isn't one... maybe the community should start one to help users with legal matters directly related with Monero. Just an impromptu thought. Other ideas, suggestions, and criticisms welcome.