Watchman Privacy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Douglas Tuman of Monero fame. They discuss all of his Monero projects—Monero Talk, XMR Bazaar, XMR Chat, Monerotopia—as well as practical topics on how to live on Monero, as well as thoughts on figures in the community and banned accounts.
 
GUEST: DOUGLAS TUMAN
→ https://x.com/DouglasTuman 
 
MONERO TALK
→ https://www.youtube.com/@MoneroTalk 
→ https://x.com/MoneroTalk 
 
XMR BAZAAR
→ https://xmrbazaar.com/  
→ https://x.com/xmrbazaar  (Account permanently banned: spread the word)
 
MONEROTOPIA
→ https://monerotopia.com 
→ https://x.com/MoneroTopia 
 
XMR CHAT
→ https://xmrchat.com/ 
→ https://x.com/xmr_chat 
 
MONERONODO
→ https://moneronodo.com/ 
→ https://x.com/moneronodo 

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:25 – Why did Douglas Tuman devote his life to Monero?
3:05 – Has their been a hijacking of Bitcoin?
4:35 – Monero Talk
8:00 – Douglas running for Congress
11:50 – Is being public important for Monero?
15:40 – Struggles of running Monerotopia
18:25 – Other Monero events
21:10 – Does Doug have troubles being publicly connected to Monero?
21:45 – XMR Bazaar
29:10 – Living off of Monero
30:55 – Why don't privacy influencers talk about Monero?
32:55 – Moneronodo 
34:50 – Banned Monero Twitter account
36:05 – Thoughts on Monero Maverick
39:05 – Anti-Jewish sentiment in Monero
41:00 – Medium of exchange vs store of value
44:30 – Should Monero users be more interested in price?
48:00 – Did Doug lose faith in Monero mining after Qubic attack?
50:40 – Final thoughts
 
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Paul Rosenberg for a fifth time. They discuss the moral, anarchic, and technological questions that continue to define our world.
 
GUEST
→ https://substack.com/@veraverba  (New Substack profile)
→ https://freemansperspective.com/ 
→ https://freemansperspective.com/product/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-e-book/ 
→ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Rosenberg/author/B07TYTP6CD 
 

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:45 – Clone thought experiment
3:40 – Digital ID
8:30 – Samourai Wallet
12:40 – Judges the biggest part of the problem of government?
16:30 – The Simple Web
20:50 – Wikipedia a decentralist failure?
25:00 – Laissez Faire city failure
32:00 – Quantum Computing
34:05 – Anarchy has no ways to fight off evil
42:50 – Are "defense stocks" immoral
48:50 – VPNs
55:00 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Episode 222 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – The Psychopath Duology
 
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Hillebrand about Nostr: a censorship-resistant social media protocol.
 
GUEST
→ https://towardsliberty.com 

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
4:15 – Max Hillebrand's nomad lifestyle
7:35 – Current status of Germany
8:50 – Overview of Nostr
12:30 – Problems with traditional social media
16:10 – Shadow banning and opaque rules distort reality
18:55 – Where did Mastodon go wrong?
20:05 – Which is the biggest thing Nostr has achieved so far?
22:45 – How to run Nostr
27:55 – What are you responsible for as a Nostr user?
31:20 – How do we follow people on Nostr
32:40 – Where does content get hosted?
35:00 – Balance between user-friendly and sovereign
36:45 – Hardcore privacy on Nostr
39:50 – Is Nostr full of only Bitcoin talk?
44:05 – Ongoing maintenance of Nostr
46:30 – Do you have to be in Lightning to use Nostr
49:50 – Quality of life problems
54:00 – Other interesting aspects of Nostr
57:00 – What does censorship-resistance mean?
1:01:20 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio