Francisco Cabañas of Monero on Ciphertrace and Cryptocurrency Privacy and Scaling

<p>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.</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Donate - Sponsors</strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/6/c08cb11db17d83ff.png"></a><a href="https://nordvpn.org/dcn"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/1/525e9eeafe3ace37.png"></a><a href="https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/1/2d4cd3c9949d6a26.png"></a><a href="https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=rRIQPc1m"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/b/f137d0b33d1409e2.png"></a><a href="https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/d/35bf74741f029611.jpg"></a></p> <p>Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my <a href="https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx">CoinTree link</a>. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx</p> <p>Support us by checking out our sponsors! Protect your privacy online, <a href="https://nordvpn.org/dcn">sign up to NordVPN</a> with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, or just $3.71 per month, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn</p> <p>If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? <a href="https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c">Join LBRY</a>! - https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c</p> <p>Want