"But it needs to be said that the reason government officials don't like this (Monero) is deeply entangled with the reasons why we do believe it is important. We don't want the federal government to have control or any other government to have control to shut down certain types of transactions." Mike Ter Maat / EPI 319 Watch Here:

"We should get this to happen and let's get him out of jail. Let's let's get this guy home. " EPI 318 Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️

"Actually, a cool thing we don't really talk about is not just getting into and out of Monero...So now you have a way to earn on Monero. You take your Monero deposit it into a liquidity pool with Serai DEX and have an opportunity to earn. I don't think this really existed anywhere. So this is a great opportunity." Paul Puey / EPI 317 Watch Here:

"So they asked me at one point...why do you like Monero so much? And I said, 'because it keeps the business of people like me out from underneath the noses of people like you.'" Matt Roach / EPI 316 Watch Here:

"And I think that tools like Monero...we're going to be able to allow to run in parallel to the system and continue to usurp and to take power from the system a bit at a time...'incremental abolition', where we use nonviolent resistance through technology to slowly take power away from the system and the state, and I think it's a beautiful thing." Sterlin Lujan / EPI 315 Watch Here:

"I think it's an incredible testament to what we mean by wanting a decentralized revolution. It's created by, what I like to call software engineers for liberty, because it's just people trying to construct a system where you can have a bank and it's permissionless." The PholosopherX & Jack V. Lloyd / EPI 314 Watch Here:

"You have a public ledger of every transaction that's happened and it's really the antithesis of privacy...Once you add traffic analysis, that kind of thing Bitcoin is, you are basically putting your financial life on a billboard..." Chris Luchini / EPI 313 Link 🔗:

"It (Monero) sounds like something that we need. It would be very beneficial in order to maintain freedom and liberty and reduce the possibility for government to interfere with our lives." Dr. Bradley Rauch / EPI 312 WATCH VIDEO HERE:

"So as the price goes up and everyone sees how degenerate the financial system is and how tyrannical the people controlling it are, hopefully, those people will become more and more detached from the public sense of what's right, which we see all over the place with these campus protests and a lot of other things where I think the public is a lot more grounded, a lot more tied to the idea of the personal freedoms that we're supposed to have in this country." Cryptocomicon / EPI 311 👀Full Epi:

"We want to build tech that's unstoppable by a government, when we say government, we don't mean the US government prosecuting cases against truly bad guys. What we mean is totalitarian governments all around the world that use money to persecute people. That's what we mean...we want to build technology in both of our communities that is resistant to the effort to use money to persecute and hurt people" J. W Verret / EPI 310 Watch Here:

"Most think that Bitcoin is just a speculative asset and most have a negative opinion of it as a speculative asset...when I first got Bitcoin in 2012, it was better money than existed, meaning it was actually faster, it was cheaper and it was peer to peer and no third parties, no banks and censorship resistant, all of those things...so literally in the payment space, the traditional financial system has just leapfrogged crypto." Aaron Day / EPI 309 WATCH HERE :

"So when when did, this is a question no developer likes to answer, but when do we see this actually getting implemented then? It's timeline? Oh This one I have actually provided a very aggressive time frame for. I would hope for the implementation to be ready within about six months. And that's not you know guaranteeing the academic review formalization audits and all of that, but I hope the implementation should be done within six months and I'd hope her notable progress to have been made on all at the Academic Review with that. I do have to distinguish... I do have to distinguish implementation from integration though. Right now, I'm discussing implementation. Integration is technically something distinctly discussed, and I would hope that that is also done in that timeframe, but I cannot speak with as much confidence on that time frame." Luke Parker aka KayabaNerve / EPI 308 Watch Here 🎬:

"Monero has been very steadfast in its approach with dealing with regulators. You know, its stance being we're building digital cash, and we're not here to bend the knee to any state or any regulator. If exchanges want to delist us, so be it. We're not going to change the protocol in any way to help them comply. Curious how Zano, you know, intends on dealing with these issues. What's your perspective on that?" Andrey Sabelnikov aka Zoidberg / EPI 306 Watch Here 🎬:

"I think it's a nice simple way of looking at it... Monero is the private untraceable version of Bitcoin, let's say, and Zano is the private version of Ethereum... this is the simple way of looking at things. Yeah, we discussed this perception that's pretty much close. I just didn't want to put it that simple, because I think Monero is a very interesting project. It's way more sophisticated and way more innovative than Bitcoin. So I didn't want to compare it with Bitcoin from that perspective, because the number of innovations that have been done by Monero Lab is absolutely amazing in the privacy area. So yeah, I think it will have a pretty interesting future." Andrey Sabelnikov aka Zoidberg / EPI 306 Watch Here:

"Well, what I think that the world is overly regulated and to have a system where the rules are clear from the beginning, like when you have the cryptocurrency and the rules of spending, rules of having, and they are fixed and they're not going to change during just just someone decides, okay, I need to do this. So in that case, having that system is really nice. And I think the world sooner or later you understand that we as a whole humanity of whole society, we need some kind of a system where the rules will be fixed from the beginning and not be changed during the game." Vasilii Rogin of CryptoPoll / EPI 305 Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️

"The downstream liability aspect of what Roman was charged with and how it all played out is very scary for anybody who uses Bitcoin and Monero. The idea that you can get prosecuted for somebody else's crimes because of this misidentification is downright scary. And I think that that's one of the things that we're going to have to educate people on, was that Chainalysis and other blockchain surveillance companies are moving beyond KYC, know your customer and towards KYT, know your transaction. So this blockchain surveillance dragnet is going to expand and try to identify every single transaction. But in attempting to develop that dragnet, there's a lot of assumptions that are going to be made and they're not all going to be correct. And the accuracy of the software and being presented as something that is completely accurate and given a law enforcement as facts when really there's all these assumptions baked into it, makes it even more scarier when they're trying to combine, know your transaction with this misunderstanding of flow of control and flow of funds." Tor Ekeland & Mike Hassard / EPI 304 Watch Here 📺:

"The real beauty of freedom is like, even in systems where things are constructed with so many restrictions and control grids that exist, that you feel like you'll never get out of that kind of control grid, you still have people who can think their way out of it. And I think that's the real beauty of crypto in general, not like this one coin or that one coin, but it's like, in general, was this whole thought process of we're going to think our way out of this economic enslavement, you know, we're going to create a whole other system that we can use to have economic freedom, which, you know, in a debt slave society is real freedom." Sam Bent aka Doing Fed Time EPI #303 Watch 📺:

"And what I'm hearing is there's, this year as well, there's kind of ideologically, people want more privacy, they want to see that more is being implemented. The average retail participant is not sophisticated enough to be able to judge these different technologies and in some cases they've FOMO-ed into crypto in one ecosystem or another and then discovered too late, that they want to add privacy somehow to their holdings. And so what they're looking for is forward privacy, right after they've already gotten invested. And I'm trying to figure out how do I add this and that's been my question too. And I love that what you're hearing is that there's a greater commitment to the idea of privacy." Luke Parker,SirJamz & Seth Estrada / EPI #301 Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️

"To get decentralized e-commerce, we need to have decentralized liquidity. And underpinning all those steps has to be privacy, a private thought is the safest thought. And that allows true freedom of expression between two parties. So you have to have a truly private liquidity ecosystem. Monero has achieved that. So you need to have a truly private means of exchanging and sharing that liquidity, which is partly what we're doing through BasicSwap DEX." Dr. KAPIL /  EPI #299 WATCH:

"And so I got into private Bitcoin as a way to make anonymous payments online that were maybe more importantly, evading censorship, not dealing with the absolutely scummy, slimy financial system that we have today, right? All this good stuff, permissionless, person to person transactions. So that's why I got into private Bitcoin a few years ago. And for me, I didn't care about the price. I didn't care about investment. I didn't understand the value of it that all these people thought it was going to X dollar amount. And so for me, it was a tool. And then of course, I learned about Monero and it was an even better tool" Gabriel Custodiet / EPI #298 Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️