Hey Raphael. Hello CryptoRidge. Thank you for having us. It is a pleasure to be here. Awesome to
hear your voice again. I think I've had you on our show twice in the past. Yes, you've been on
my show that was a few years ago. Yeah, so I'm happy to reconnect and yeah it's well I'm just
honored to be here with you and with Mr. X. Mr. X is my business partner at the CryptoVigilante.
He is the I think I consider him to be the the analyst the most important analyst when it comes
to privacy coins. I was blessed to meet Mr. X right around the time when Nero came out.
And we've been friends since and then he's a Bitcoin OG like myself. We don't agree at all
or somewhat throughout Bitcoin history. We've actually took opposite stances regarding the
Bitcoin civil war but our friendship kept prospering you know because that's what you know that's
what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to communicate and keep the channels of communication
open even if you disagree. So I've been able to foster a great friendship with Mr. X throughout
the years with Jeff Burwick of the DollarVigilante and Ed Bougos the Golden Lantern as we like
to call him. We started the CryptoVigilante as an offshoot of the DollarVigilante
and we carried on to create the the Vigilante Insiders Club which is a premiere a club where
investors have direct access to us to you know learn from us as we analyze the market in real
time. So sorry Rafael excuse me a second and I should have said this earlier so the website is
CryptoVigilante.io CryptoVigilante.io and you offer, well what do you offer like you do
analysis? We focus on cryptocurrencies. Yes well we focus on the most important questions
regarding space which is the what is it that we're talking about the what and then we call
that fundamental analysis. We focus on the when technical analysis, when to get out,
when to get in you know and we focus on option security and how, how do I actually use these
properly, how do I actually use these in a way that I can use my stuff in a way that I can
see myself. So that's our research in the how, when and the what we're talking about.
So we have a pretty amazing team. The technicalists were the first guys were of the group of the first
guys who first charted Bitcoin in the Bitcoin talk forums in 2010. And this is a group that
went on to create a what I can I think it was a first newsletter in Bitcoin history called the
Bitcoin Bull Bear which later on went to be called Bull Bear Analytics. Well that team is now
that is the Crypto Vigilante. That's part of the Crypto Vigilante now. So we have the most seasoned
crew when it comes to technical analysis. Mr. X was part of that crew himself. He was one of
the earliest members of that of that network. And so you know I'm just pretty blessed to have
these Bitcoin OG geniuses around me on a daily basis from what I learn and grow with all the time.
And so look, why did we create this? We didn't need to create the Crypto Vigilante. We didn't
need it. We were all Bitcoin OGs. The reason why we have this is because the most important
aspect of these technologies is not the economic structure, not how it's being presented in the
market or received by governments. It's not the technology. Believe it or not, the most
important aspect of these technologies is the knowledge held by the individuals that come
into these networks. And these technologies if they stand alone, they can be used for any
reason right for any purpose. It's just technology. What matters is that people
learn about these technologies so that they may use these technologies in ways that is best for all
of us. So I consider these technologies all to be a weapon per se that could be used for anything.
It's just a tool. These technologies are a tool. So the strength and the value of these networks
really comes down to the quality of knowledge and skills that the investors of these networks
hold within themselves. So education is of utmost importance. The most important aspect of Bitcoin
is the Bitcoin or the most important aspect of Monero is the Monero individual that's part
of the network. So Mr. X, I want you to introduce yourself a little bit. I think Mr. X was
setting up his voice disguiser. He's really into privacy. So I don't know if, and he's
talking to us through a Linux machine and a bunch of his configurations.
I don't know why he bought this. Everybody knows that his real identity is Mr. X.
Yeah, we got a sus Mr. X. Okay. Well, Mr. X, whenever you're ready, you can just interrupt
the conversation and then we'll come to you. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. So my name is Rafael.
I'm also one of the founders along with Mr. X at Bugos and Jeff Burwick of the crypto vigilante
in the Vic. And we hold a conference every year, which is Anarcapulco in Mexico. This
year we'll be hosting it in Puerto Vallarta. And we also have a conference in Liberland,
which is right smack in the middle of Croatia and Serbia on the Danube. There's a little
micro nation of which Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, I think Tron, right? He's the prime
minister of this little micro nation now, which is pretty cool. So it's a bunch of Bitcoiners and
Bitcoin OG is creating our own little country. So we host a year league festival there too called
Liberpulco. So now, so we have Liberpulco and Anarcapulco in Mexico. Every year you guys
are welcome to come hang out with us, meet us, focus on health and wellness, the markets.
It's a full stack conference. So it's a very beautiful environment. So that's our goal is to
educate people and to create environments where we can grow a community. That's really our goal
here is to grow a community of individuals that are seeking freedom and are seeking
freedom in their personal life and seeking freedom in the world we live in. So yeah,
that's pretty much us in a nutshell. Okay, well listen, critical to freedom is privacy.
And I just want to acknowledge there's somebody from the team from Pirate Chain here,
which is a privacy crypto and also Zano are here and Zano and Pirate Chain have both been
guests on previous X-paces. So hello to both of you. Now, why is privacy important?
It's important for the same reason shelter is important. So if the concept of shelter
is nothing, it's nothing more than a very natural concept found in all types of organisms.
Okay, the notion of a bank. I'm going to push back against you. Okay, here, right?
I'm just going to know this is for the sake of argument, not because I disagree with you.
I'm big into Pirate Chain. I'm big into Sentinel and Zano, and I'm big into privacy generally.
And Sentinel, by the way, have also been on this X-space. They offer a decentralized VPN,
which is very, very important for privacy. But shelter protects me from the elements,
the rain and the cold, and I need shelter because I don't have fur. But privacy? Seriously?
Only criminals want privacy, Raphael.
No, not really. I mean, everyone that wants to avoid any type of voyeurism in their private
life is using privacy. You use privacy when you lock your home, right? Going back to the
analogy of shelter, when you have curtains on your windows, you have privacy.
Privacy really comes back to a very organic and the concept of a personhood, of interacting with
each other as individuals. So where there is a direct connection. In other words,
privacy gives you intimacy. Without privacy, you don't have intimacy. So you need privacy,
not just to meet the lower needs of like Maslow of shelter, but you also need privacy
for higher-end goods like the good of friendship, the good of intimacy.
And when we talk about financial privacy, we're talking about respecting private property.
And money, cash is nothing more than the most liquid good. That's what money is. And money
is an asset type that makes you lucky in the environment because cash as money allows you,
when you have cash readily available, it makes you luckier because you can take
advantage of limited time offers in the economy that other people who are invested in assets that
are not as liquid, they can't easily divest, let's say sell a home, sell a property, sell a car to
get into a limited time offer. The guy holding cash places himself in a position of being more
lucky. When you move in the market and you are in cash, when you're seeking cash, when you're in
cash, you don't want to, you want to protect yourself from any type of financial voyeurism
because the way you invest yourself in life and the way you manage a portfolio is that
is in itself a type of intellectual property. So just like Coca-Cola is, you know, Covitz,
the sacred recipe for Coca-Cola. In that same way, any portfolio manager from
the biggest company to just the, you know, the resident down the street who owns, you know,
who has a family portfolio, we don't want financial voyeurism. It's just a natural
thing that you want to protect your private property. You want to protect your intellectual
property. You want to protect your, yeah, you want to protect what you have. You don't want,
you don't want to put yourself at the risk of any criminal, whether that criminal be a criminal,
you know, in the everyday, you know, space, common criminal or a government, right? So you
have to, you have to, it's no one is walking around with their social security on their forehead,
right? No one is walking around with a bank account readily available to everyone
to see how much you have in your bank accounts. So it's a natural thing. That's the way I see
them. It's just natural. Yes. No, forgive me for interrupting because we're not on video,
so you're not going to see me raise my hand, right? But you're pointing to something. So one,
no one is going to post their password for their email account publicly. Then everybody knows your
ins and outs of your business. You cannot have sovereignty without privacy. I belong to me.
My thoughts are mine. My actions are mine. I'm responsible for them. I belong to me.
And if I get into some sort of relationship or a conversation with you, with you Raphael,
and we don't want it to be public, well, that conversation belongs to us, that transaction,
even if it's the exchange of goods, because I'm going to use Pirate Chain or Zana or Monero to
get into an exchange with you, which you and I are agreeing to as sovereign individuals.
The other thing about privacy is you cannot have creativity without privacy. And as proof of that,
just need to look at countries where people are heavily surveilled, like North Korea, like
Soviet Union, and increasingly the UK and the European Union, because it kills innovation.
For you and I, what we're going to do Raphael, you and I are going to meet
privately to create something which we think is going to make a difference in some way,
you know, some great business idea or some great cryptocurrency project.
And we don't want the fruits of our discussion to be stolen or suppressed by others
until we're ready to launch it publicly. And that could be the case if we're going
to write a book or something or come up with a cryptocurrency project or a new business
service, anything like that. You cannot cannot have sovereignty without privacy.
You cannot have freedom without privacy, and you cannot have creativity without privacy.
Totally agree. Hey guys, can you hear me now? Yeah, we can hear you.
Okay, awesome. Sorry about that. I had some audio issues there. Sorry about that.
Thank you for joining. Yeah, thank you for having me. Again, this is Mr. X of the Crypto
Vigilante, one of the analysts and co-founder with Raphael Laverde. And yep, just wanted to
join the conversation. Yeah, I totally agree, privacy is essential. And specifically, I guess
if we go more specifically into the topic of privacy as it relates to blockchains,
the important thing about privacy is that if transactions on a blockchain are private
by default at the protocol level, then they cannot be censored. That also helps with the
unsensorability or impossibility of censorship. And basically, miners could censor transactions
if they are visible, right? So with Monero and Pirate Chain, for example, which are both
fully private cryptocurrencies, miners cannot even see the contents of the sources, destinations,
and amounts of the transactions, and therefore they cannot be censored by miners.
Yes. Yes, no, thank you. Thank you. And I think what you're talking about, Mr. X, fits
into what Raphael and I were talking about, about the importance of privacy in general,
how critical that is, and that privacy cryptocurrencies, decentralized VPNs,
other decentralized services like NIMS, decentralized Internet or Core Tools,
decentralized Internet, offer us the opportunity of preserving our sovereignty,
our freedom, our liberty by preserving our privacy. Okay. Why don't we go through some
of the things that you think are, well, that are available in the blockchain space that you
think are really, really great for privacy? Either of you. What category? I mean, we can
let's talk about, here, Mr. X, how about we talk about Trocador, because I know you're a fan of
Trocador. Let's talk about Trocador. I think that's something that a lot of people don't
know about. It's a great way for people to trade crypto. Mr. X, if you could explain
what Trocador means, that'd be great. Yeah, Trocador is a service that basically gets
a swap aggregator, so it aggregates various crypto swap services. So there's a lot of
instant swap exchanges that support many hundreds of different cryptocurrencies.
But what Trocador.app is the website, trocador, T-R-O-C-A-D-O-R dot A-P-P.
That website there basically connects to a lot of these swap services, and then they provide,
Trocador provides a ranking system showing which of these services are more or less likely to
perform KYC or know-your-customer requirements. Sometimes they will, if funds appear to be suspicious
based on a blockchain analytics or other anti-money laundering types of checks that they run,
then they could be more likely to be frozen. But then there's some providers that do not
freeze people's funds or they at least give you the option if maybe they don't pass those
AML checks, then they let you at least return your funds to you and they don't freeze them
or seize them because there have been a lot of instances where people are trying to swap in
or out of cryptocurrencies, especially privacy cryptocurrencies without having to provide all
their personal identifying information. And then the funds end up getting frozen,
sometimes at no fault of their own. Maybe they just, the wallet was in the past maybe connected to,
could have been connected to something that they thought was suspicious or maybe just
incorrectly identified as something illicit, but in some cases or maybe they even sent an
amount that was too large. Some of these exchanges have a maximum amount they allow.
So a lot of those things you can check with the ranking system. You can also
know, Trocador actually fully ensures some of these swap exchanges trades up to a certain amount.
So, and you can check to see that when you're preparing to make a swap between cryptocurrencies.
So what I recommend doing is use Trocador, but just ensure right plugging in different amounts.
Okay, thanks. If you hold it a second please, because I have some questions
and I want to clarify what you're saying and make sure I understand because
if I understand them, perhaps some of the listeners will understand. There are exchange
aggregators like change-ally or change now or swap. Well, those are, those aren't aggregators,
actually Trocador itself is the aggregator. So they're aggregating across change-ally and
other swap providers. So those would be the individual swap providers like change-ally.
Right. And actually we, and I was going to say change-ally, we do not recommend change-ally
because they are actually known for freezing people's funds. So at least Manero and the Manero community
at least. Yeah, thank you for that clarification. So they offer swap funds where you can just put in
I want to exchange USDT for Bitcoin or Manero for USDT or something. And very simple means I
don't have to go and sign up to an exchange. And then the risk that you're saying is that
with some of them, in particular you mentioned change-ally is they will freeze the funds
mid-transaction and they won't refund it either. Or some of them will say, okay, you need to do KYC
before we release the funds. And what you're saying is Trocador, which is T-R-O-C-A-D-O-R
dot app. Doesn't do that. Well, no, so Trocador, it helps you to pick a swap provider to help
avoid having to do that. Correct. So the way you use Trocador properly is to
look at their ranking system and read all of their FAQs, read all their terms, conditions,
everything, and read all the directions there. And that will help you. If you follow them,
that will help you to avoid having your funds frozen. And the way I recommend using it is to
stay under that limit where Trocador has a insurance. Basically, some of them have a
insurance on them where it will actually protect you. It's called the Trocador guarantee,
actually. It's what it's called. So if you use it through there, they can actually
ensure the funds as long as they fulfill the requirements. Right. Okay. That's really good.
That's a very good service because it makes it convenient. And it means that we don't have to
do KYC, which has all sorts of implications because who's holding that information? What are
loss of sovereignty when somebody steals your identity? Okay. Yes. And one of the really cool
things about it is that you can swap between privacy cryptos that otherwise they haven't built
like atomic swaps for yet. So for example, you can actually swap between Monero and Pirate Chain
directly from Trocador. And you can usually do a few thousand dollars worth at a time.
I recommend, personally, I found that usually staying under $3,000 or so, two or $3,000 at once,
you can usually do batches of transactions. So maybe if you're trying to move like a larger amount,
like 20, 30, 40, $50,000 worth of crypto, if you break it into those smaller amounts,
then it tends to be easier to do without getting your... And also while still having
your funds insured and not getting the funds frozen either. Right. Right. And I can see I'm
looking on trocador.app, T-R-O-C-A-D-O-R.app is they have a... So I've just put in a $1,000
exchange of tether to Bitcoin. And then if I scroll down and people can try this out for
themselves, it says, well, this is how much I will get from different exchanges. This is the
spread, how long it will take, and there's a category for privacy. So this one scores D for
privacy and this other one scores A for privacy. So I might have a preference for one or the other
or might not be bothered. Okay. Well, that's great. I didn't know trocador did that. Thank you so
much for that. Anything else on trocador? Well, actually, I wanted to mention there is another
tool that I use as well called Orange Friend. So that is orange and then f-r-e-n dot com. So
O-R-A-N-G-E-F-R-E-N dot com. Orange Friend. And they are actually they're more kind of
like a trocador and Orange Friend. They're both pretty... They're definitely very privacy and
no KYC focused. And they also rank some exchanges as well. And they also sometimes
have provided additional... Yeah, I would actually... You could use them instead or alongside trocador.
And for example, they actually show they have an Orange Friend guarantee up to certain amounts. So
they have certain... They actually show which exchanges do never KYC. So they'll promise never,
ever to do KYC, which is very helpful. And you can also see the amounts are guaranteed.
For example, one of them is guaranteed... XOLIX is guaranteed up to $6,000 per trade
and also never KYC. And also you can see the fees. So some people may be willing to pay extra fees
and then not have any KYC and also do a larger amount. And then other ones, you might have...
If you want to pay lower fees, you might have to try smaller amounts.
So just using both of these tools together can be very helpful in maintaining your privacy
and swapping between cryptocurrencies without revealing any of your personal information.
Right, right. That's very good. I'm looking at Orange Friend. And I mean,
listening to you, I'm thinking about what a loss trade ogre shutdown has been to the privacy
community because they never asked KYC and they really specialized in a lot of privacy cryptos.
And I don't think there's any exchange that has anything like the liquidity
that trade ogre had and doesn't ask for KYC.
Yes. Yeah, it is definitely... I 100% agree. A lot of us really enjoyed trade ogre, including myself.
And yeah, it's definitely been a big loss. But I guess what I wanted to say here was
that Trocador and Orange Friend definitely, I think are very helpful tools in kind of
restoring some of the liquidity that's been lost because a lot of these
exchange providers, they have access to deeper liquidity through other sources.
So although it's not as easy to make, I guess, like on Trocador, for example, you could place bids,
bid orders and sell orders, ask orders, and you were able to maybe get a better deal
on certain coins, whether through buying or selling above or below the market price, right?
So with these, it's just an instant swap. So you're not really able to place those orders at this price.
Right. Okay. All right. And I just want to make a mention because they're going to be a future
guest on this X-Base, which is pwld.net, Palladium. And because they had a lot of
tokens, pwld, on trade ogre, and those are now frozen. And at one point, there was more trade
happening with pwld than there was in Monero, which was the most heavily traded cryptocurrency on
trade ogre. They're in communication with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and they are
working with their own lawyers in the Czech Republic to recover funds. Now they're offering a
service that if people go to pwld.net where people can join in that service, including cryptocurrency
projects that had funds on trade ogre, that you can then piggyback with Palladium as they recover
their funds through their lawyers. Now, if you only got a few hundred dollars, it's not going to
be worth it. But if you got a thousand dollars or more, because the fees are kind of minimal
as far as I can understand, then it may be worth your while to get in touch
and use their lawyer services because that'll be a whole lot cheaper and easier than trying to do it
yourself to recover from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All right, just wanted to make mention
of that. Okay, so that's trocador.app and also orangefriend.com. And when this goes out on my
channels, I'll link to those in the description below. What's the next thing you want to let us know?
Rafael, your signal, you're distorted. Like you're speaking through a fan or something.
Yeah, Rafael, I think your connection is pretty low. You might have to go closer to the
internet router or something. Is this better? Oh, yeah, that's better. That's better now.
Okay, so it's good that we're talking about that we started the conversation on these topics
because indeed the greatest mass surveillance and crypto comes forth from the centralized exchanges.
So I think that another two other very good useful tools are cake wallet and edge wallet.
Cake wallet has a lot more privacy features. Edge wallet has more accounting features.
And edge wallet allows you, whenever you make a swap between cryptocurrency,
to choose on the settings or to view directly what exchange is being used.
You can choose that all exchanges happen, all swaps happen within edge wallet via
decentralized exchanges, DEXs, not centralized exchanges, which is CEX.
Yeah, that's the abbreviation. So make sure that you have good wallets. We recommend both the
edge wallet and cake wallet as our preferred wallets for anyone new to crypto
because they are so versatile, because they allow you to swap between different cryptocurrencies
and because they they're privacy centric. Okay, now I know about edge wallet,
they were also a guest on this X space. I don't know about cake wallet, never used it.
Is that a mobile wallet? Or is it an extension wallet or a web browser wallet or all of them?
It's an application. Yeah, cake wallet. The website is cakewallet.com, just cake.
C-A-K-E wallet.com. And they are actually on multiple platforms. So they're on Android,
they're on iOS. You can also run it on GrapheneOS, which is the most secure
mobile operating system on a phone. They run on Pixel currently right now, but
it's basically a fork of the Android open source project. But you also can run it, I believe,
on Windows and Mac and Linux computers as well. So cakewall works across all platforms.
Okay. And they're also open source and their privacy focus.
Yes, and I think edge wallet is also open source and privacy focus. Now edge wallet has
Pirate Chain and Zano and Monero and several other privacy cryptocurrencies. Does cake wallet
have the same number of private cryptocurrency wallets? Yes, so cake wallet has Zano has Monero.
They have not had a Pirate Chain yet, I don't think. I hope they will someday. But yeah,
they haven't at this point. But they actually, for Monero, it's actually more private to use
cakewall than edge wallet for Monero, at least because edge wallet uses a type of Monero
light wallet server. It basically keeps a copy on the server end for edge wallet
of your view key. So they actually have more insight into your transactions. So if edge wallet
servers get hacked, then somebody could look into your wallets, some of the contents of your wallet
there. But with cake wallet, it uses a native Monero node. So the Monero node cannot see,
and they do not have a copy of your view key on the cake wallet. So actually,
you could connect with cake wallet, you could connect to any Monero node,
remote node anywhere if you want in addition to cake wallets servers.
Great. Okay. Thank you so much for that. We now have a, we have a couple of exchanges,
and we have a couple of wallets. What else should people use with regards to private,
in order to preserve their privacy? So, you know, we actually just did a seminar
on all of these topics that was like over 12 hours of education.
Oh my gosh.
Called the, yeah, the crypto vigilante.
I think it was about 10 hours or so, 10 hours.
And it's, we called, we titled it, What Matters Most in Crypto.
Yeah, the website is TCVSummit.com. If you want to find out more about that,
that's TCVSummit.com.
Yeah. TCVSummit.com. Yep.
Yeah. We also have a crypto workshop for anyone that is brand new,
that is like six hours of education regarding everything you need to know in crypto to get
you started with crypto. Mr. X, maybe you want to know about that?
That website is, yeah, that website is TCVworkshop.com. So if you're typing TCV Workshop
crypto basics. So basically what we, for that, yeah, like Rafael said,
it's over six hours of content there. And we had all of our analysts team at the crypto vigilante
went through the basics of crypto. So our analysts, Mr. Z, who's been in Monero also
since near the beginning as well, he explains the background of crypto,
also the background of Bitcoin, why crypto is important, and then of course,
why privacy is important. He has a whole lecture on the crypto privacy revolution and why
privacy is essential in crypto. And then we also have Rafael has a video with the founder of Edge
Wall, Paul Kway, who explains how to set up a wallet and for newbies who may be completely new
to crypto and don't know how to set up a wallet and how to exchange their funds to Monero and
have privacy. And you could also, of course, exchange parachain or Zeno as well using the
same process. Also our privacy operational security expert, Mr. P, explains the important
basics of operational security and how to use technology properly to ensure that you actually
do have privacy using cryptography and open source tools to help ensure that you do have that
preserve your privacy like VPNs, other things like the Tor network, all these types of things.
Then we have Mr. W and Mr. A, who are crypto market technicians, technical analysts, and they
explain cryptocurrency markets, trading and analysis, how to look at a chart, how to use
tools like CoinGecko, how to buy and sell cryptocurrencies using exchanges and the
basics of that. And then we had a panel as well with Rafael, myself and Mr. A
answering various questions at Q&A. Right, fabulous, fabulous. Okay. And people can link
through all of those, I think, from CryptoVigilante.io. Yes. Those are great services that you
offer. Okay. So what else do you want to let us know? Do you think it'd be useful for people
to know? I think one thing that we don't talk much about but that we offer as part of the
newsletter is that I know a lot of people, maybe the more advanced crowd would really
get out of this, we have a ton of Linux tutorials from Mr. P on our monthly newsletter.
And yeah, we've had tutorials on Fedora, tutorials on, what else have we done?
I think we did, yeah, we pretty much have done them all. Yeah, Mr. P has done many
deep dives, like if you read each of our monthly newsletters each month, very much for the last
few years, actually, he's been writing very detailed tutorials, how do you like install Fedora,
Workstation, Linux, and then how to customize it and how to upgrade its security, how to
using virtual machines, all kinds of methods to protect your privacy and your security.
Because of course, I mean, if you could have all this crypto, but if you don't have
security, you could all be stolen very quickly. And actually, this happens a lot.
So operational security is extremely important. That's really the how, how do you use crypto,
how do you keep yourself safe, and also privacy? Okay, let me go back to Linux,
because Linux doesn't have anywhere near the market share like Mac or Windows. I'm on a Mac right now.
I think more people use Windows applications. For those who don't know, which includes
myself, I'm not an expert in Linux at all. I'm not a coder. I'm not technically gifted in any way,
really. Why Linux? What's the big deal about Linux? Why is that so important?
Well, I mean, Linux is very important. It is tend to be more secure, but there's also,
depending on how it's set up. Well, first of all, a lot of these big companies like you have
Apple and Windows, both of them, they spy on their users. And especially the newer versions
of these operating systems have increasingly added a lot of this telemetry or basically,
where they phone home back to the corporate servers, and they send a lot of private data to them.
And even Windows was known for the, I think the latest co-pilot was the AI feature they
included to actually record your whole screen and takes pictures of it. So someone hacks
in your computer, they can see, like, if you have your crypto on there, there's actually
been examples of people where they have their crypto stolen because this new quote-unquote feature,
which invades your privacy, actually takes pictures of your screen, including your wallet,
seed phrases, and all those sort of things. And somebody that can get access to your computer
can see that, even if you think it's secure. It's actually not, especially if you have those
features enabled. So yeah, these are all important, very important things to be aware of. And
in those, the operational security. Okay, now co-pilot. So co-pilot is an AI. And you're saying
there have been reports of co-pilot taking screenshots. It's embedded in the Windows
software, taking screenshots of what's on the screen. And then people using those screenshots,
getting access to people's private keys, and then stealing the crypto.
Now, you may not know this about me, Mr. X, because I don't think you and I have ever
spoken before. I work as a child protection social worker. That's my job. And I've worked for
two local authorities that use co-pilot for their social workers. So if I want to find out some
information, I can tap and make a request of co-pilot. Now, the risk here, what you're saying
is that it, you're not saying that it definitely happens, that it may be possible
that through co-pilot, the information that I might have on screen about children and families
and what's going on and what I'm investigating could be available to other people?
Well, yeah, someone gets access to your computer. So what happens is co-pilot takes pictures of
your screen and stores it in a certain folder. I know this was the case for a while.
And then there was a lot of people that obviously had some frustration about it. So I think,
I think if I'm not totally short, I have to double check the information. But I think it
was enabled by default. And then I think because so many people were angry about it,
think they may have disabled it, but I think the functionality is still there.
So I'm not totally sure. Don't quote me on that. But I think that was the case. I'll have to double
check. It's something that I'm going to run past the IT department where I work because,
I mean, it's bad enough sharing, people losing their own private keys, but
people finding out about abuse that's going on, that could be going on in a family and
about children that have been vulnerable children that have been abused. It just
goes to show that in this world that's been developing and growing for the last 10,
20 years or so, ever since the internet, there's more and more going on than we actually know about.
And that our sovereignty, our freedom, our liberty, our privacy is being
compromised in ways we don't necessarily know. And of course, in the UK where I am,
we're going to be blessed soon with digital IDs. Aren't we lucky?
Rafael, your connection is rubbing again.
Yeah. Okay. Well, we've got about 10 minutes left. Let's go through some of the
privacy cryptos that you think are worth people taking a look at.
And of course, you have to say Zano and Pirate Chain because they're both listening.
Oh, yeah. We love Zano, Pirate Chain, Monero. And then, of course, actually,
there's another one called Tari, which was created by one of the co-founders as Fluffy
Pony, who is one of the earliest Monero developers. So, yeah, Tari, Pirate Chain,
Monero, Zano, those are some of our top points that we like. Some of these other ones,
I remember you mentioned Dash, but Dash, we never really liked Dash because, I mean,
it's really not a privacy coin, not really a truly true privacy coin. And then, of course,
also you mentioned Zcash, but Zcash, I believe 80, 90% of at least of their transactions
are fully transparent using the T addresses. So, Pirate Chain, corrects that, is basically took
the innovation of cryptography that Zcash created, but then they set it up so properly,
really, so that all the transactions are private by default. And everything is enforced
at the protocol level. So, only mining transactions when the coins are created,
those, you can see that, but anything after that point, after the mining block rewards,
everything after that is completely private. And the anonymity set of Pirate Chain right now
is the largest in all of crypto. Yes. And just on the anonymity set, so that people understand,
if you think of a haystack, and as the anonymity set, the larger the haystack,
and you've got to find a particular transaction like a particular blade of straw,
the harder it is to find that blade of straw. And Pirate Chain is the largest haystack of all
the privacy cryptos. And every single transaction, like you said, apart from the first one where
the coin is mined, and that's to make sure that the miners aren't producing extra Pirate Chain
coins for their own benefit, all the other transactions are invisible and cannot be
seen on the blockchain. So that's Pirate Chain. And then do you want to tell us a little bit
about Zano and then Tari and then, of course, Monero? Zano, it has also one of the cool
things about Zano is that it has the ability to create tokens that are private as well.
And it uses similar technology that Monero uses with the ring signatures.
Actually, there's even an algorithmic stablecoin called Freedom Dollar FUSD,
which is on Zano, and that's also gaining some popularity as well.
Anybody can basically create their own token on Zano, a private token.
Yes, a private token that can't be seen and Freedom Dollar is a privacy
focused stablecoin because in the UK, Raphael, Mr. Rex, I don't know if you know this,
the Bank of England cares about the British people so much, it wants to keep us so safe
from scams that they're considering putting limits on how much stablecoins that an individual
can hold. They're talking about no more than $10,000 to $20,000 in stablecoins in order to
look after us and keep us safe. But a privacy stablecoin like Freedom Dollar,
there's no such limits. People can hold as much money as they want,
perish the thought they should have that level of liberty.
Well, and actually, you could do it even on normal stablecoins. You don't have to,
use Freedom Dollar, and I would actually recommend diversifying because the thing is,
Freedom Dollar is an algorithmic stablecoin, and remember what happened with Luna,
that was an algorithmic stablecoin that completely crashed. So I'm not saying that
that's for sure what will happen with Freedom Dollar, but it is something just to be aware of.
But as far as ways to privately use stablecoins, if you're using Coin
Control, which is basically the idea of keeping track of all of your crypto wallets and privacy in
mind, basically thinking like a hacker whenever you're using your wallets in all the possible
ways that they could be tracked or traced, I guess another option would be to use
a privacy cryptocurrency like Monero that has good liquidity. And then you could
anonymously swap into a brand new USDT wallet or USDC wallet on another blockchain using
like Chocador or Orange Friend, like I talked about earlier. You could actually anonymously swap
into some of your funds into stablecoins on those, using those platforms without having
to provide any identification. And as long as those wallets don't become tainted or
touched by any other wallets that could be connected to your real-world identity,
then you could actually have some privacy that way as well.
Yes, that's very important. The important point there is to diversify.
Don't get stuck with one stablecoin, and then you can use Zano or Pirate Chain or Monero. I mean,
Zano has a bridge that allows people to put dye, and you can put dye in Bitcoin and the
eth on the Zano blockchain and it's invisible, but people got to check all these out for
themselves and then work it out. Okay, now tell us about Monero or Tari.
Well, yeah, Tari is also, I probably should have said a little bit more about Tari there.
Tari also is, well, it's still in the very early stages of development, so Tari actually
plans to add a Layer 2, which will actually have a lot of these smart contract features, tokens,
apps, there's going to be, I think, like Tari apps actually will be on the Layer 2,
which is pretty exciting. So, and like I said, it's all private at the base layer there,
so that's going to be pretty cool to see what Tari will be building. And it just launched,
actually, earlier this year, I believe, or within the last year or so. So, that's another
point that I'm pretty excited about, and I think it's quite cheap at these levels as well.
And then Monero is... Sorry, Mr. Egg, before we go into Monero,
so what's so special about Tari? Well, yeah, Tari, like I said, it has
the capacity, especially on the second layer, once they're building. Right now,
it's running at the Layer 1, which uses a token called Minotari, or XTM Minotari, which is, you can
mine, but then those coins, when they create the second layer, those coins will be burned,
I think, at a one-to-one ratio for the second layer, which is going to be Tari itself,
which will run all of the apps and the smart contracts and the Tari apps
that will run on there. And actually, if you go to Tari.com, that's Tari.com,
there's a ton of information you can find. Learn more about how it works.
You can look at the tokenomics. Actually, if you go to that page, Tari.com, at the bottom,
you can see the tokenomics, which explains how the two layers work,
and how those tokens are burned at that ratio. And then the second layer,
so the Layer 2 is called the Oodle, is what they call it, Tari Layer 2,
and Tari, that second layer is going to be called XTR tokens, but that Layer 2 hasn't launched yet,
so I think when that launches, that will be exciting to see all of the innovation that will
happen there. Yeah, and I'm just looking on CoinGecko, Tari listed on CoinGecko on May
22nd, 2025. Yeah, that's right, it was earlier this year.
Yes, it is a very new cryptocurrency, and you can also mine it on your laptop.
That's correct, yeah. Which also favors decentralization. Okay, so that's...
Yeah, it's very decentralized, and it has multiple actual algorithms, so you can mine it. If you
have a GPU, you can mine, because I believe the algorithm I have to double check, but I
believe it splits into like three different types of miners. So you actually have every few
block hashes or different algorithms, and it kind of rotates. So you can mine random X with the CPU,
so basically it's the really cool thing about Tari, is that anybody can participate.
So if you have a graphics card, you can mine with your graphics card,
or if you have a really good CPU, or you can mine with both, so it's actually really cool.
Great, okay, that's Tari, and then Monero. I haven't heard of Monero,
what's that one about? Well, Monero is really the oldest real
true privacy coin in my opinion. You had Dash before that, but it's not really a true
privacy coin. But Monero does have pretty good, very good privacy actually,
not quite as good technically, debatably as a pirating, but there's a lot more people
in Monero. So in some ways, you could argue that Monero is maybe just as private in the
sense, because there's a much larger group of people using it. So it does have a smaller
anonymity set for each transaction, because it only uses ring size of 16,
so and that protects the sender. So ring signatures protect the sender of a transaction
Monero. So there's basically 15 decoys and one real transaction in a Monero transaction
that protect the identity of the sender. And then the receiver is protected in Monero by
something called stealth addresses. And those are uniquely generated, randomized
addresses on the blockchain. So and you can't see who they're connected to. And then your
Monero wallet address, if you were to copy and paste Monero wallet address into a blockchain
explorer from Monero, you will not find it anywhere because because of the stealth addresses
that are actually cryptographically generated within your wallet. So so you cannot see
unlike Bitcoin or Ethereum or any other coins, you cannot see the balance of anyone's wallet
on the blockchain unless you have something called a view key. So and the view key is
voluntary would be voluntarily disclosed. And also I forgot to mention earlier that
Pirate Chain also has the capability to voluntarily reveal transaction or wallet data
with view keys as well. So and then of course, another technology for Monero
currently that it uses to hide by the transaction amounts is called Ring Confidential Transactions
or Ring CT. Okay, and the advantage of Monero is that it has it's so well established
and it has so much liquidity. And everybody knows about it. And it is worth investigating
as is Pirate Chain, Zano, Taro, Tari and other privacy crypto currencies. And of
course, the applications that you mentioned, Trocadero, Cake Wallet X and OrangeFriend.com
and of course CryptoVigilante.io Raphael and Mr. Rex. Any last words you want to say before we
finish up? Well, yeah, I would say real quick about what the last thing you said there
with Monero everyone knowing about it. I would actually argue that privacy coins in
general I think are extremely undervalued. The market in general, the crypto market
especially is not really very aware of these like a lot of people, especially the newbies getting in.
Most people just buy a few random cryptocurrencies on Coinbase and they think, oh, yeah, I have crypto
and they assume they may have heard incorrect news articles that say, oh, Bitcoin is an anonymous
cryptocurrency, but that's totally not the case. It is not private. So so I think, yeah,
these crypto currencies in general, I think Monero, Pirate Chain, Zano, a lot of these
other ones, most people have never heard of them. Most people do not know about them yet
and I think people who are getting into these cryptos early and start using them
are going to be rewarded in the future because this is a very early space and I think
we're really on the cutting edge of it. So that's kind of, I guess my last words there
in regards to the private privacy coins. Absolutely and I agree with you. I think
as certainly in the in the UK and Europe, as governments get more and more authoritarian
with their CBDCs and their digital IDs and censorship and increasing surveillance
and alongside the decay in the value of the fear
shitcoins like the euro and the pound, privacy cryptos are going to become more and more
important because like I said at the beginning, without privacy, there is no sovereignty,
without privacy, there is no freedom, without privacy, there is no creativity.
So we're going to do what we can to preserve our privacy. So Mr. X and the crypto vigilante,
thank you so much crypto vigilante.io, thecoinrepublic.com. Thank you for them
to for hosting this and I look forward to speaking to you all at some point soon.
I do these once a week. So the next one is scheduled for next Saturday, five o'clock UK time.
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