DEF CON 27/Monero Village across years
Paris, Bally's, Flamingo, and Planet Hollywood hotels, Las Vegas · 8-11 August 2019 · 16 talks
Monero Village at DEF CON 27 explores privacy-focused cryptocurrency, cryptographic techniques, and the intersection of technology, community, and policy. The 16 talks cover Monero development, privacy protocols, mining, blockchain technology, and open-source sustainability.
1–16 of 16 talks
Monero Village·33 min
Allan Stevo
A New York apartment building and a Moroccan rural village share the same internet challenges - inefficient methods of distribution across the last mile. Our idea is to address this inefficiency to provide greater int...
Monero Village·45 min
Cathie Yun
Bulletproofs are important zero-knowledge proofs used in Monero to hide transaction amounts, but they can be used to prove other statements too. Cathie will walk through many of these applications and constructions. T...
Monero Village·12 min
Vik Sharma
In 2017, Vik launched Cake Wallet which is a popular open-source Monero wallet that allows users to hold Monero, make payments, and convert between cryptocurrencies. Although initially launched as a closed-source proj...
Monero Village·26 min
Francisco Cabanas
Francisco will provide an overview and review of blockchain scaling and fees in Monero. He will review the relationship between fees and the Cryptonote (now Monero) penalty with an emphasis on the impact of the block ...
Monero Village·59 min
Dr Jeremy Gillula
Jeremy will be speaking about the EFF's past and ongoing efforts to encrypt the web.
Monero Village·28 min
Reuben Yap
Zcoin launched with the Zerocoin protocol, which was riddled with critical security issues. Reuben will talk through the team’s response to these and its development and research journey.
Monero Village·30 min
AJ Santos
A Texas bill has been introduced that encourages the use of what is termed a “verified identity digital currency,” which is a currency that allows the true identities of the sender and the receiver to be known. In add...
Monero Village·32 min
Sarang Noether PhD
The past year has seen excellent research focused on achieving better functionality, privacy, and efficiency for spend obfuscation in digital assets like Monero. This includes CLSAG, DLSAG, Lelantus, Omniring, RingCT ...
Monero Village·32 min
Justin Ehrenhofer
Monero has a biannual major release schedule, but it has been hit with setback after setback despite the best efforts of the community. Justin will discuss how borrowing small changes from other projects to work smart...
Monero Village·21 min
Allan Stevo
As the cryptocurrency industry grows in prominence, bankers, consultants, and information security specialists have moved into the space that was once the territory of hackers, cypherpunks, and anarchists. This is a t...
Monero Village·1 hr 20 min
Daniel Kim
Learn the basics of Monero and its community. Monero provides benefits to society that all Defcon attendees benefit from. Daniel will express the importance of holders and advocates for cryptocurrencies. He will descr...
Monero Village·31 min
Diego
Diego will explain why Monero’s user experience needs improvement for wide adoption. He will introduce theories of good UI/UX, and he will explain how other open-source projects handle these challenges with limited re...
Monero Village·20 min
Robin Renwick
This talk presents the methodology, findings and conclusions of a boundary theory based Information Systems research project completed at University College Cork, Ireland. Perspectives of privacy have been analyzed fr...
Monero Village·23 min
Gus Clarke
Here we explore Mimblewimble, a blockchain construction for private transactions. How does it function and how do the three implementations in the wild differ?
Monero Village·26 min
Amir Montazery
Amir will answer questions about the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a nonprofit that help coordinate audits of open-source software and undertake other initiatives. OSTIF has helped Monero audit seve...
Monero Village·28 min
Kristy Leigh Minehan
Kristy-Leigh will discuss the importance of accessible mining in consumer applications and the work that she has done at Core Scientific. She will explain how Monero’s development of RandomX is the best chance yet at ...
