Monero
product on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 25 times in 13 episodes since 2017
20VC 12 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5 
the a16z Podcast 5 
Capital Allocators 2 
My First Million 1
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- 20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
- Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- 20VC: The 2 Core Areas Value Will Accrue In Crypto, Why Crypto Will Drive The Re-Centralisation of Talent Back Into Silicon Valley & Why Regulation Is The Opposite of What We Should Be Concerned By in Crypto with Avichal Managing Partner @ Electric Capita
- Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- John Pfeffer - Crypto for Institutions (Capital Allocators, EP.54)
- An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
- Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)
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Abraham: Zcash and Monero can be decrypted; Iron Fish is truly anonymous
“So you had, you know, coins like Zcash and Monero that were created, but it turns out Those actually can be decrypted and you can figure out where all of that went. So she's the first person that really figured out how to make truly anonymized crypto. And it's…”
Dixon: Protocol network tokens require a distinct valuation model from digital commodities
“My personal nomenclature, like I think of in the first bucket, the commodity bucket, there's Bitcoin, there's Monero, Zcash, maybe Dash. And then there's this other thing, which is kind of the networks, call them fat protocols, call them tokens. There's this w…”
Xie: Monero cannot support mainstream use without better scaling solutions
“Monero itself isn't as scalable because it's storing all this additional data, and so Monero might not be something in the current state that can actually be used mainstream quite yet, so they still have to work on some scaling solutions”
Gil: A subset of current crypto projects will become massive like Amazon
“And then in parallel, I think there's things that exist today that are sort of the Amazons of crypto that are gonna be massive in their own right and already exists. You know, maybe it's Bitcoin, maybe it's Ethereum, maybe it's a privacy token like Monero, Zca…”
Garg: Privacy tokens like Monero have real utility unlike speculative ICO tokens
“I think private, privacy tokens are actually a thing. Like if you talk to a lot of people, hey, if XYZ thing went away, would you care about it? They're like, yeah, it would be kind of unfortunate if that went away, or I'd lose a lot of money because I was in …”