30:38

S2026:E11 Jul 10, 2026

Impact of AI on cryptoanarchy

Artificial intelligence is the most powerful surveillance and control technology ever invented — and every state that can get its hands on it will deploy it against you. CBDCs with behavioral triggers, client-side chat control, predictive pre-crime enforcement, and a handful of jurisdictionally-captured frontier labs shaping what can even be thought: this is the Four Horsemen of the AI State. But AI is also the most powerful individual empowerment technology ever invented. The cypherpunk vision Timothy May sketched in 1988 finally has the missing computational piece. Anonymous digital cash, untraceable markets and DAOs, private AI, zero-knowledge everything — all of it is now technically feasible. The bottleneck has shifted from cryptography to marketing, usability, and adoption.

39:35

S2026:E12 Jul 10, 2026

How to Bring Crypto into Meatspace

How do we bring permissionless digital cash from our wallets into everyday life – into supermarkets, cafés, and corner shops? For more than a decade, crypto has lived mostly on screens: on centralized exchanges, inside speculative narratives and in online shops. Although the conventional payment methods used in physical retail have evolved to become more digital, traceable, still relying on middlemen and have significant consequences for human rights, privacy, and dignity. We’ll talk about what it means to create “birth helpers” for crypto in the meat space — companies that lay the groundwork for a crypto-based circular economy. We’ll look at what’s wrong with today’s crypto processors and what changes when these birth helpers are designed from a human‑first, freedom‑respecting perspective. The vision is to take cryptocurrencies out of their digital niche and make them a normal option to pay in real life.

19:34

S2026:E13 Jul 10, 2026

Privacy in Monero and Lightning: what it actually is

We are used to think about Monero as privacy-oriented technology, but what it actually means? Let’s briefly recap how Monero works nowadays and what is actually visible for external observer. Then let’s take a look on Lightning (a Bitcoin layer), how it works and what kind of privacy it provides. The goal of this talk is to have a quick overview of those two technologies and to compare them from privacy point of view.

27:51

S2026:E14 Jul 10, 2026

Permissionless

We are facing an onslaught of intrusive regulation, especially in the digital world: age verification, chatcontrol, kill-switches in cars, and self-incrimination thru mandatory reporting of digital assets. All because centralised institutions can afford to “boil the frog” when people are sufficiently reliant on them. This power equation explains all institutional capture, including the sad corposloppification of BTC. Permissionless, sovereign, anti-fragile technology is The Way. In my talk, I will show what I found interesting and useful as of late: the new XMR402 payment standard, TollGate routers, Framework computers, local AI, Open-Source Blueprints for Civilization, 3D-printing, and a few interoperable protocols. I will also give a glimmer of hope for the ever-coveted mass-adoption: these things have the Cool Factor long lost by most tech. Open-source modularity simply is good design, while Monero has always felt like a gem.

43:42

S2026:E15 Jul 10, 2026

Lightning versus Monero

I outline several privacy flaws in monero that have resulted in successful prosecution of monero users. I also show how these flaws could have been addressed if the targets had used the lightning network instead.

22:37

S2026:E16 Jul 10, 2026

Liquidity Fragmentation in Non-Custodial XMR Markets

Non-custodial swap aggregators show users the best single-exchange rate, but is that actually optimal execution? This talk presents empirical findings from a live BTC→XMR aggregator across 23+ exchanges, examining whether splitting trades can improve outcomes. The answer: yes, but only sometimes. Across 2,714 logged events, split routing gain scales with trade size, averaging 0.38% at 8 BTC versus 0.10% at 0.5 BTC, with a greater than 1% tail emerging at 2 BTC and above. Zero events produced a negative outcome. The underlying mechanism is the liquidity cliff: every exchange has a capacity ceiling beyond which their rate degrades. Traditional aggregators query at the full amount and never see it. Exploiting it requires continuously pre-sampled sub-amount rate curves, infrastructure most aggregators don’t have. We present the detection methodology, the gain distribution, and when split routing is worth surfacing and when it isn’t.

29:58

S2026:E17 Jul 10, 2026

Liberland: Sovereignty, Privacy, and Governance Beyond the State

Liberland is a sovereign country advancing voluntary governance, contribution based meritocracy, and crypto native public infrastructure, where influence is earned through participation rather than assigned by status. This talk explores how decentralized technologies support governance, voting, and public services while reducing bureaucracy and strengthening individual sovereignty, with a strong emphasis on privacy, self custody, and permissionless systems aligned with cypherpunk values. President Vít Jedlička will share how these principles are implemented in practice and invite collaboration from builders, researchers, and privacy advocates interested in developing real world alternatives to legacy state systems.

33:32

S2026:E18 Jul 10, 2026

Monero Offramps for the CBDC Era: The Carbon Credit Loophole

The talk will focus on how future surveillance mechanisms, such as carbon credits and the “Green Agenda,” can allow Monero holders to offramp their crypto into the real economy and purchase large assets with their coins. Unfortunately, XMR has an unfair stigma attached to it when it comes to larger cash-outs, and this presentation provides a roadmap for those wishing to legally buy land, property, businesses, and other major investments in a CBDC era, without bureaucratic holdups - and without surrendering their privacy.

22:37

S2026:E19 Jul 10, 2026

Threat Modelling a State Sponsored Attack

In this presentation, I will explore the security assumptions of PoW networks and why only nation-states pose a risk. We will discuss the impact of a 51% attack, how it would be carried out, and the incentives/disincentives to do so. PoW’s economic security model, blockspace as a free market, and censorship resistance. Mining pool architecture, attack vectors, and decentralized mining incentives. We will also explore what honest network participants can do in response to such an attack and how to mitigate the risks. Finally, we will highlight Monero’s base layer privacy, ASIC-resistance, tail emissions, and how they play a unique role in resisting a 51% attack.

24:12

S2026:E20 Jul 10, 2026

BasicSwap Mobile - Monero atomic swaps on a phone

No chain sync, No download, No account required. Sponsored by WizardSwap.io BasicSwap Mobile delivers a P2P Taker Style atomic swap service for XMR and other coins that will integrate into popular Crypto Wallets you love and use! Decentralized. Liquid. Private. Secure.

28:00

S2026:E21 Jul 10, 2026

Monero in the Cypherpunk and Libertarian Tradition

This talk makes the case that Monero represents a working piece of counter-economic infrastructure in the sense proposed by Samuel Edward Konkin III.The presentation situates Monero within the broader intellectual lineage running from Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism and Konkin’s agorism through the cypherpunk movement of the early 1990s. It draws on Hayek’s theory of concurrent currencies and denationalisation of money to show that Monero’s privacy-by-default architecture is not merely a technical preference but a direct answer to a theoretical problem posed decades earlier. Where Rothbard, Hayek, and Friedman formulate normative postulates, Monero replaces the norm with an algorithm and law with cryptography.

26:17

S2026:E22 Jul 10, 2026

Liberation.travel - Vote With Your Feet

Liberation.travel

27:09

S2026:E01 Jul 9, 2026

Monero Scaling, and Security. The Priced Adaptive Blocksize Fee Market

Monero combines a priced adaptive block weight based upon the CryptoNote excess size penalty with a constant block reward or tail emission.of 0.6 XMR per block. This leads to a unique fee market that can provide insight into the fee markets found in Bitcoin like crypto currencies with small blocks, big blocks and adaptive blocks. We will use the the proposed Full Chain Membership Proofs++, FCMP++, Monero scaling parameters to illustrate this fee market. We will consider the inpact of pricing, and a block reward vs the lack of a block reward on this fee market. We will discuss the overall implications of different fee markets on spam mitigation, and proof of work security. We will also discuss the impact of significant transaction size and verification time increases on scalability in the light of technological change including quantum computers.

30:51

S2026:E02 Jul 9, 2026

State of EVM-XMR atomic swaps

Since the announcement of a rewrite of EVM-XMR atomic swaps at MoneroKon 5 the project has progressed quite a lot. This talk aims at updating the audience on the current state of the project, it will cover the following items: How swaps work, deposits, funding requests, seeds, … Web GUI tour - This was made possible thanks to the community who supported a CCS Price feed and oracle bot Maker bot Deployment on a new EVM chain The project will be completed by the time MoneroKon 6 is held and will be fully usable, the audience will therefore be able to do atomic swaps with stable coins or any EVM native currency after the talk.

30:20

S2026:E03 Jul 9, 2026

Monerujo: designing for imaginary people

The Monerujo team wants to share with you all the thought processes and design choices we take when designing a wallet for a future where Monero is a true p2p currency, which means widely used by normal people in everyday situations. Also the challenges and assumptions we face when doing that for a mostly paranoid userbase with strict privacy-preserving tastes. We’ll feature past and new features and hopefully a fully fledged Monerujo 2, live.

20:40

S2026:E04 Jul 9, 2026

The Terminal is the App: Privacy-First Software over SSH

The browser won the app platform war, and with it came fingerprinting, ad tech, session replay, and an ever-growing attack surface we’ve quietly accepted as the cost of doing business. This talk argues for a different path — distributing apps over SSH, rendered as TUIs — and backs it up with a working example: a cryptocurrency exchange where your SSH key is your account, swap history lives against your public key, and there is no web frontend to compromise. I’ll cover the architecture in Go using charmbracelet’s Wish, Bubble Tea, and Lip Gloss; the threat model compared to a typical web deployment; and the UX tradeoffs that come with asking users to connect over ssh instead of using a browser. By the end, you’ll have a template you can adapt for any app.

26:23

S2026:E05 Jul 9, 2026

Mapping Spy Node Dominance in the Monero P2P Network

Monero’s cryptographic privacy is well-established but its P2P layer is a different story. Using Nebula, ProbeLab’s open-source network crawler, we conducted the first large-scale topological crawl of the Monero network, discovering over 29,000 nodes and successfully handshaking with more than 16,000. The findings are stark: over 81% of reachable nodes exhibit the peer ID mismatch pattern the Monero Research Lab associates with surveillance infrastructure while every flagged node tracing back to a single provider: Spruce Creek Networks LLC. Force-directed graph analysis reveals a bifurcated overlay: a dense spy node core surrounding unprotected peers, and a self-segregated cluster of ban-list-enforcing nodes. We present the methodology, the topology, ban list adoption rates, and outline next steps: measuring how this surveillance density impacts Dandelion++ propagation and transaction origin anonymity in practice.

16:15

S2026:E06 Jul 9, 2026

A Study of Trust in Digital Distributed Services

This presentation outlines a sociological study and statistical analysis of user trust in digital tools. The study addresses the following questions: What factors influence user trust? How do secure and anonymous technologies affect user trust? The findings are important for positioning digital services and building user trust.

24:43

S2026:E07 Jul 9, 2026

SLVer Bullet: Straight-Line Verification for Bulletproofs

Bulletproofs is a critical piece of infrastructure for cryptocurrencies like Monero, permitting users to prove that the amount in a transaction is small, preventing overflow errors and inflation bugs. We present an enhanced version of Bulletproofs tailor-made for Monero, speeding up range proofs and shrinking their sizes.

27:39

S2026:E08 Jul 9, 2026

Monero Republic and the Future of Monero Scalability

This talk discusses the fundamental scalability challenges facing Monero, and demonstrates a radical upgrade pathway to address them. The approach consists of two sequential upgrades: Republic and Universe. Republic introduces a transition to a quorum-based consensus model, aiming to significantly improve throughput and stability. Building on this, Universe represents a more theoretical second stage, designed to enable effectively unbounded (ad infinitum) scalability via the implementation of a demand-based chain splitting and merging mechanism.

36:54

S2026:E09 Jul 9, 2026

The Praxeology of Privacy: Monero as Economic Argument

Privacy tools are usually defended on technical grounds: better cryptography, stronger anonymity sets, harder to trace. That framing concedes too much. This talk draws on The Praxeology of Privacy to make the economic case. When surveillance is cheap, control is cheap. Confidential transactions and stealth addresses impose real costs on the adversary’s ability to observe and act. Mises’ action axiom tells us economic calculation requires informational freedom; Voskuil’s axiom of resistance tells us security is measured by the cost to compromise it. Monero operationalizes both. The talk covers the three-axiom framework, the financial surveillance stack Monero is built to defeat, and why fungibility is the property that determines whether digital money can remain sound money.

31:43

S2026:E10 Jul 9, 2026

Selfish Mining Simulator

Selfish mining literature has traditionally focused on MDP to probe for theoretically ideal strategies. However, these fail to integrate crucial factors like network latency, difficulty adjustment, and node/pool internal processing delays, which can significantly affect the outcome of a real-world attack. The Monero Simulator incorporates these elements, plus discrete asynchronous agentic mining pools, into a configurable Monte-Carlo framework capable of sweeping over a broad set of input parameters. Tunable parameters include: pools/hashrate, difficulty adjustment constants, network latency/bandwidth, and pool strategies. Additionally, we introduce a novel simplification whereby the set of selfish strategy state-diagrams can be modeled with just two, integer input parameters. Preliminary results corroborate the classic selfish mining model, while challenging the relative profitability of “stubborn” variants. Finally, the simulator offers a versatile environment for testing selfish mining countermeasures, and could be extended to probe other aspects of Monero’s design.