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2024-08-30 14:44:08

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I already replied to you with a link that explains beyond any reasonable doubt why this is incorrect.
Feel free to keep your current erroneous perspective if you'd prefer. I have no dog in this fight.

2024-08-30 14:22:11

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I don't blame you btw, this is a very common mistake.
But perhaps be a little more humble. The ego thing really doesn't reflect very well on anyone - 10x so if you happen to be wrong on top of it.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-inflation-really-means

2024-08-30 14:18:35

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That is not inflation. Common mistake.
Inflation tends to cause price changes, but not all price changes are a result of inflation.
Inflation would be 10 million more Bitcoin having been created, doubling the supply and therefore reducing the value as expressed in another unit (say, USD) as each individual sat would now be worth less, as there would be about twice as many sats than before.
I echo your sentiment about learning basic economics back to you.

2024-08-29 22:24:36

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Hmm, no.
It lost purchasing power by that amount (assuming your numbers are correct).
It had minimal, transparent and predictable inflation in the form of block rewards.

2024-08-09 02:38:10

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True, I didn't mean to imply all LH ideas are crap and all RH ones (although I would dispute the notion that crony capitalism and the military-industrial complex are not RH ideas in the slightest, even though a certain party that advertises itself as more RH from a certain country we all know tends to be the one pushing such ideas forward.
100% with you on Ron Paul.

2024-08-09 02:34:04

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Man, I wish some of you guys could see how you sound from the outside. And I've been in Bitcoin longer than probably literally 95% of you.
That's such an unsubstantiated dogmatic position it's not even funny.
Open your mind a little. There are several other interesting projects out there.
None of them is Bitcoin, and none of them is pretending to be. That doesn't mean they have no use and no value, it means they have different goals.
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

2024-08-09 02:28:40

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Hard to leave people around when the whole concept is collectivism to one degree or another.
Not to say the right is all angels, of course. But any kind of left-wing politics is gonna come with coercing a fair share™ of other people's money out of their pockets.
I just don't see how it could ever be compatible with leaving people alone.

2024-08-08 22:49:52

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Never forget.

2024-08-07 14:53:34

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All those people who elect to use it at coincards, shopinbit etc, such that Monero is the most used coin there, sure seem to think otherwise.
All the darknet markets buyers and sellers, who really need the privacy and anonymity in their payments, sure seem to think otherwise.
All the governments who ban it, either explicitely or behind the scenes, sure seem to think otherwise.
It'll never cease to amaze me that self-professed believers in free market and individual liberty somehow manage to blind themselves to the truth when it's not convenient (i.e, not congruent with their unchecked assumptions and dogmatic beliefs).

2024-08-02 14:38:45

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This is more accurate than it seems 😂
Bitcoin is headed for the Theft pillar (sound money and all that), after that pillar goes down, the Surveillance one remains (symbolic because of Bitcoin L1 total surveillance), and then The State, now unstable because the other pillar fell, falls down mightily on Bitcoin.

2024-07-30 14:55:59

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We're all launderers now.. we're all launderers now..
😂

2024-07-26 13:43:26

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I disagree that Trump has no principles, but you yourself implied that Ron Paul would have been a more capable leader than Trump (and I agree).
Logically, that means there ARE better and worse alternatives, even if the system isn't perfect (far from it).
That was all I was pointing out! With all its faults, there IS a difference between a Ron Paul and a Joe Biden, because people are people and people are difference.
Even a staunch individualist must be able to appreciate and recognize great leadership and vision. Rallying behind such a character does not deny individualism and taking responsibility for our life, it becomes easier for any one of us to do that if we all push in the same direction, because there is strength in numbers.
The truth of that is undeniable, although I kinda prefer that it wasn't (maybe you are the same), since I like doing my own thing.
But look at us (nostr/bitcoin etc), that is exactly what brought us all here. We were doing our own thing, reached our own conclusions and understanding, and then it turned out there were millions of others who ended up in the same place.
And we banded together, because alone we're easy to pick off one by one, as a group we can push back effectively.
It is what it is..

2024-07-26 02:27:25

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Nah. That's just black and white thinking.
You can recognize there are better and worse people for the job whilst still believing salvation and/or the answer™ ultimately does not lie in politics.
Ron Paul would have been a better President than Trump, and Trump was and will be again a better president than Biden.
That does not invalidate the fact that the system is heavily corrupted and most likely impossible to salvage at this point.

2024-07-25 21:38:14

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Is the decline going to be the same rate or even nearly the same with Trump there vs Joe Puppet or Kamala or Big Mike?
Perhaps people understand this. Yes, that the best America has to offer now is Trump is very telling, but don't think for a second that Trump and Biden & co are on the same level, they're not.

2024-07-15 01:23:12

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Presented without further comment.
https://image.nostr.build/3bcabce2fadea6dbe1a8a986183f449e20bec086137ba6805ae991ff4c4e735d.jpg

2024-07-15 01:14:49

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Check https://www.moneroinflation.com for a possible rebuttal to the argument that the ledger cannot be audited because it's not transparent.

2024-07-15 01:13:40

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Discounting everything that falls outside your narrowly defined boundaries without even studying & understanding why people far smarter than either of us bothered creating the 'shitcoin' is not the answer.

2024-07-13 00:54:57

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Jews hate this one trick.
ok, spicy joke but just a joke 😂

2024-07-12 19:43:02

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anjump.me&ia=web

2024-07-11 01:20:40

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Got it, so monero is a shitcoin because monero is a shitcoin.
I bow to your superior logic.

2024-07-10 22:18:14

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Black and white thinking as always.
You refuted exactly zero arguments from the very well-written website above, which by the way is what always happens when the matter comes up. Because you don't actually have any valid arguments, and therefore devolve into ad hominem attacks.
It's cute you believe in digital scarcity as an absolute thing, meanwhile Bitcoin has actually had an inflation bug in the past, which if you would stop regurgitating dogma for a minute you would understand the implications of that as it applies to your argument.
But tempered rational thought is not usually the mark of a religious zealot.
Moving further, in a classic display of projection (because it's an all or nothing, black and white thing to you), you imply that any other project that addresses a shortfall of Bitcoin has inherently as its goal the overthrown of Bitcoin.
I'm not even going to list the many alternative interpretations (and there are many, believe me),I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
You also seem to conflate scarcity in Bitcoin (let's for a moment assume it is bug-free enough that we will never see something like that happening again, an assumption I would like to hold true btw, unlike you, who resentfully desires us "shitcoiners" to be rekt because, essentially, we don't follow your church) with digital scarcity in general.
Seeing as this is all open-source and the cost of copying digital information is essentially zero, it is no surprise we see many cryptos nowdays. And honestly the situation is a lot better than it used to be (even though there are a lot more projects), because there is a lot of really cool technology being developed (and yes, I appreciate that you don't and can't appreciate this, since for you by definition anything outside Bitcoin is a shitcoin, therefore you never really look outside that box, therefore you could never really know what you're talking about).
However, it still seems rational to me that for the explicit purpose of protecting oneself from fiat debasement, Bitcoin is the best choice.
Unlike you (because I'm not a zealot), I don't think that could NEVER change, but I do find it extremely unlikely (and have allocated my resources accordingly).
To finish, your assertion that "there is no limit to the supply of a digital object that moves on the internet in a private way" is just that - an assertion, and a faulty one at that. I would suggest you actually read and study the site linked before in order to reach a more nuanced conclusion.
Furthermore, you're also assuming, once again, that it is an all-or-nothing proposition, when it isn't; having a blockchain that is opaque and therefore vastly superior for the single purpose of transacting anonymously and privately is a valuable tool in the arsenal against pervasive mass-surveillance.
This does not mean, and does not have to mean, that it is a better tool for everything else too, and it does not mean you should stake your fortune on its fate and unlikely success as a replacement for Bitcoin.
More than anything else what annoys me about you maxis is that you can't seem to grasp those elementary distinctions because your minds are polarized and you seem to live in a bubble of people who think the same things. And then unironically refer to others as NPCs.
Bitcoin is just a tool, Monero is just a tool. Relax. Use the best tool for the right job, don't be a religious nutjob.
Or don't, but then at least don't murder the truth.

2024-07-10 17:54:30

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lol no. We don't talk about it because there is no hope for a decent privacy solution on a transparent chain and other than acknowledging this simple truth when someone who can only see black and white yet again puts out false information that will inevitably lead less knowledgeable people astray, there is generally no point in doing so.
Because such people are not open to rational arguments.
Try to pay for a house with payjojned coins and see how it goes (you've tainted the seller's coins now), try to deposit to an exchange and see how it goes.
And yeah sure, you can do this and you can do that, a dozen things, and you can avoid using this or that service as a workaround for the inherent and inescapable flaws of the underlying technology. How do you think those of us who've tried to manage all that complexity found the alternative?
Payjoin is ridiculously underwhelming compared to ring signatures in Monero and ring signatures in Monero are ridiculoualy underwhelming compared to what FCMPs will bring in the medium-term.
You'll find a few hard-headed stubborn Monero maxis that are the mirror image of toxic bitcoin maxis minus the dramatic gains and the strength in numbers. They are just as deluded in seeing no value in #bitcoin as the bitcoin maxis are in not seeing the value in #monero
It would be better for everyone who cares about freedom and privacy if this constant nonsense would stop.
#monero #bitcoin #privacy

2024-07-10 13:42:55

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Monero being #1 in a payments scenario doesn't surprise me, but damn that lightning is so low on that list is truly disturbing - you'd think people would want more privacy and less fees, but somehow...

2024-07-08 19:23:48

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That all life is sorrowful is not what Buddhism teaches.
It teaches about attachment as the cause of suffering. Pain is not optional, but suffering is.
It's not about never having fun and not having anything or anyone, it's about realizing everything is impermanent and you are not what your ego thinks it is. It's about understanding that the suffering is optional. This sets you free.
Think about the example you gave: do you think it's all about being free from the algorithm™, when you will get old and sick and die, and everyone you know and many of them before you, will get old and sick and die?
Nothing lasts, it all crumbles to ashes. It's a delicate balancing act - not distracting ourselves and never thinking about the truth of reality and ignoring the facts until inevitably, sooner or later, reality asserts itself (the good times never last) on one end, and not being paralyzed by fear and dispair on the other.
In my opinion and experience nothing else comes close to the teachings of Buddhism to help burn those truths into the core of your being.

2024-07-04 01:26:56

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*pixel users not on #grapheneos

2024-07-03 16:31:13

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What happens to the BTC-backed USD when BTC crashes 80% and the mint has no collateral to back its debts?

2024-07-02 17:23:31

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How much is that these days? $100?
😂

2024-07-02 16:28:24

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Tyrannical regulation applied for tyrannical purposes.
Shocking, right?
Is it possible the bureaucrats are truly this dumb and gullible? What did they expect would happen?
You are right, AML/KYC is the illicit activity and it endangers us all.

2024-06-30 19:45:56

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Sounds interesting. I tried adding this podcast (the show, not the episode ofc) to my feed and every episode is a video, not audio only.
Do you know the author? It would be better to provide audio-only, especially when seemingly the content is all audio.

2024-06-30 19:17:28

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You can store in BTC and spend XMR you know.
It's not either/or.

2024-06-28 21:27:24

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Don't you just feel enriched?

2024-06-26 20:30:22

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The smokable kind? 😁

2024-06-26 19:50:24

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Yes, because attaching identity to a label generally works wonders.

2024-06-26 01:29:06

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Savage 😂

2024-06-26 01:28:02

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Leftism destroys everything.

2024-06-24 21:36:20

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The error in your reasoning is in the apriori assumption that it "has to be equal".
You need massive levels of tyranny to enforce that, at the cost of destroying merit.
Not everyone can be a success, but you can make sure everyone becomes a failure. It's the only level where everyone could conceivably be "equal".
That is a victim mentality. You can always find a dimension of experience where someone was handicapped, whether it be due to genetics, the place they were born, etc.
Bitcoin is not equitable. It's not meant to be. You can't mandate equal outcomes and not expect to destroy the successful and the risktakers.
Early adopters took massive risk and were laughed at by ignorant people who could not be bothered to do even basic due dilligence. Sucks for them. Turns out the early adopters were right.
But if they had not been, and had sunk considerable time, expertise and capital into a failed project and a faulty idea, would society then have wanted to make it " equitable' for them and compensated them for their losses?
I'm gonna guess you agree the answer is no - they would have taken a shot and missed. Too bad. But it was their shot to take.
Why is it any difference when the opposite case is true?
It isn't.
Equal outcomes are a leftist fantasy, and their attempted implementation only imparts misery, discrimination and resentment - and justified resentment, because it's one thing to be simply unlucky and not have a certain attribute that would have helped you succeed, it's quite another to bar and/or steal from others so that they can be at the same level as the losers.
That, in a nutshell, is "equity".

2024-06-23 20:02:49

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Pack it up, bois!!!

2024-06-23 16:08:26

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-3.5%
"plunges"
msm 🐷

2024-06-23 13:27:29

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Well, the government has learned enough to want to screw you with it, maybe it's in your best interest to learn how they are screwing you and why it matters.
Also, for this particular case, you could have found the answer online faster than you published your note.

2024-06-22 21:09:41

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Ah, equality.

2024-06-22 13:22:46

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Gotta love the giant M!

2024-06-22 13:21:34

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lol and for a moment there I thought the sexism was in the sense of denigrating the men by calling them bros.
guess not.

2024-06-20 00:41:38

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The worst is when there are enough of them now repeating the same dogma and they think they're smarter than everyone else because their little bubble agrees with them AND they block everyone who questions their 21 commandments.

2024-06-19 13:04:12

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This is a common faq.
See https://www.moneroinflation.com
You always have to trust something, it is perfectly possible to audit an opaque supply if you are willing to trust a few more cryptographic primitives on top of the usual stuff.
Not a bad tradeoff imo.

2024-06-19 13:00:30

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Ever fewer can see that it'd been the CBDC from the very beginning and has normalized insane amounts of transparency!
A bank account was bad enough, the bank can see all the transactions, the government can and does spy on the bank to spy on the customer, and the bank can and does sell customer data to third parties. And don't get me started on VISA/MasterCard being there in the middle so essentially a pretty good chunk of the world's financial data ends up at the NSA & co. And it's all neatly tagged (KYC).
Then along come cryptocurrencies, and now it's not just an institution that can look into your shit, oh no! IT'S THE WHOLE WORLD!
Forever, and retroactively!
And people don't see a problem with it until about 15 years later, and even then they resist and resist and resist!
Even more puzzling, they reject the tool that does the sane thing (#monero) (only you can see your transactions, like cash) because it's not part of their religion/football club!
Amazing!
But wait, it gets even better. They also rationalize why Bitcoin should not have privacy and anonymity baked in, because of inflation bugs, of which Bitcoin has had two whilst being as transparent as a Socialist's lust for other people's money!
Sometimes I think I'm from a different planet. The whole thing just seems nuts to me.
The way I see it, this is very simple.
If we are spied on all the time we're being stalked and hunted by a giant parasite-predator that does not have our best interests in mind.
This thing is infinitely more powerful than any one of us. We can try to limit its power, human history could be viewed as repeated attempts and failures to do this.
An excellent way to keep it in check is enough of us not accepting constant pervasive mass-surveillance, because then we can't as easily be picked as targets individually (less data to make a targeted choice).
It really isn't so hard to understand.

2024-06-18 16:15:05

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1. Pretty condescending. Maybe YOU will get it eventually?
2. Who said I want to be? My bags are heavy with BTC too.
3. Only someone who doesn't use onchain BTC could say that with a straight face. Bitcoin privacy and anonymity is a disaster, always has been.
Seems to me only someone not very intelligent or someone with a giant ideological axe to grind could come to such faulty conclusions.
I generally like your notes and don't think you're lacking in intelligence.
But I gotta ask you man, have you even ever used #monero ?!
Because there is a MASSIVE difference between paying different friends and family and strangers and between one's own wallets with zero care in the world, and having to separate everything, compartmentalize, do not cross-transfer, never link funds from different sources, and do all this with the thought in mind that perhaps one day one will be interfacing with a KYC service that does chainanalysis and one's past deeds will be retroactively exposed and some opaque algorithm will be used to decide whether one can or cannot access the service.
Two very different realities, let me tell you. I should know, I've experienced them both.
Have you?

2024-06-17 18:20:49

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Anonymity loves company.

2024-06-15 14:53:41

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Can't barrage the monrage!

2024-06-14 17:57:55

What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack: Scaling Bitcoin Privately with John Light
Episode webpage: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/scaling-bitcoin-privately
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/whatbitcoindid/WBD780_-_John_Light_v2.mp3
Blueprint for a more #monero -like #bitcoin L1.
A man can dream !

2024-06-14 17:52:16

And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen: #21 Own Your Focus, Own Your Life
Episode webpage: http://www.cory-allen.com/theastralhustle
Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1990661/13846822-21-own-your-focus-own-your-life.mp3
#podcasts #spirituality

2024-06-13 19:30:18

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee: #426 A Guide To Self-Mastery, How Restrictions Lead To Freedom & Discovering Happiness with Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi
Episode webpage: https://drchatterjee.com/426
Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/feelbetterlivemore/e/65cb633911e3e500150134b5/media.mp3
#podcasts

2024-06-13 15:42:24

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This is just using leverage. Nothing new.
It's great while it works.

2024-06-12 05:59:06

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https://www.moneroinflation.com/amounts_confidential_tx
This should give you some more information about confidential transactions in Monero (which are one of a few parts involved).
https://www.moneroinflation.com/likelihood
This should put your mind at ease about an inflation bug (if you actually read it, congratulations, you're ahead of 99% of the maxis).
As for the part about "forcing" a hard fork, sorry bur that's nonsense.
First of all, there is just as much if not more deliberation (in some ways, the stakes are higher, because it's a more complex system), but you're an outsider and you're imposing your own biases and preconception and not realizing this is what's happening.
And second, understand that the culture is different. Monero users, node operators, etc, all expected the hard forks, and wanted them, and were ok with it.
If you put bias aside, you'll be able to see that both approaches (very conservative + takes forever Bitcoin vs yolo hardfork every 6 months up to a year or two ago) are correct - bitcoin's for bitcoin, monero's for monero.
Also, and to finish, I gotta say you also made an assumption that is very common with Bitcoiners as they exist today. You assume an us-vs-them mentality.
Let me tell you, most Monero people I know are also Bitcoiners - not just that, they have been Bitcoiners for far longer than most Bitcoiners (who think they've found the holy grail or something & are smarter than everyone else (according to themselves)) have been Bitcoiners.
Why? They/we USED Bitcoin since the beginning, and understood that as it exists today it's a surveillance machinen and not at all fungible on L1.
So in general Monero people are much better informed about Bitcoin than rabid Bitcoiners who only see one shade of orange are about Monero.
Something to keep in mind.
#monero #bitcoin #privacy

2024-06-11 19:32:50

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Notice the assumption, never valid before in human history, that complete, retroactive and eternal surveillance is the norm, and anything less than that is an affront that must be squashed.
A small insight into the mind of a tyrant, right there.

2024-06-11 17:55:32

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For me it's curious, I think ecash is interesting but in the end it's just an IOU.
The mint can rug you, hot wallet exploits can take your bitcoin from the mint while you're left holding useless ecash, and the complexities of merchants accepting random ecash minted from random mints (any mint can forge any amount of ecash backed by nothing) don't seem trivial to solve to me.
In other words, you are looking for less fees and more privacy, and #monero already offers you this today, with no counterparty/rug risk; but because of cognitive bias people with the maximalist mind virus are unable to see it.
It's certainly fascinating to observe: the logical inconsistencies, the wishful thinking, and the black-and-white thinking "only btc has value, everything else is a scam! there is no second best! bitcoin or nothing! bitcoin is perfect everything else sucks!".
It would be funny if it wasn't such a widespread meme. Instead, it's tragic.
Hint: one can (also) use monero, save in Bitcoin. It's not black-and-white, it's not all-or-nothing.
Anyway, I see that I'm not gonna change your mind. Happy stacking!

2024-06-11 17:34:33

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> Most advanced cryptographic constructs to ensure privacy and anonymity whilst transacting digitally.
> By far the largest network effect of any project aiming to preserve privacy and anonymity in finance.
>> Calls it a shitcoin
And this #monero friends is what toxic bitcoin maximalism looks like.

2024-06-11 15:31:59

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Well, that's not a very fair comment. The tail emission is of a very small amount, its value is known, and last but not the least, it's a voluntary choice to use it or not.
Actually, to finish expanding on that last point, using it as currencybdoesn't have to mean storing value in it, much in the same way that you wouldn't store your entire btc fortune (real or imagined) on a hot wallet of some random ecash mint, right?
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs (Thomas Sowell)

2024-06-11 12:32:26

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ecash without crypto*.
The general principle (and the advantages and drawbacks) apply equally. #monero #ecash would be interesting to explore as well, for example.

2024-06-11 12:27:15

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Amethyst indeed, and I see the monero and xmr tags at the end.

2024-06-11 01:29:57

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Ok I like your meme, but what does it have to do with Monero 👮

2024-06-05 02:42:32

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umad?
😸

2024-06-04 21:56:55

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How dare you, spreading hate speech misinformation like this!
You should know we have contacted the nostr ceo.
This is a threat to our democracy!™

2024-06-02 22:35:13

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Cucked Germany.
Sad.

2024-05-29 19:06:32

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Aliens, man 👽

2024-05-28 17:32:53

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So I send you 0.00696969 BTC to your amazing "silent payment address.
Then I watch the TRANSPARENT public chain for a transaction for that exact amount I know I sent - because I sent it.
Wow, I have your real address now.
And you think this compares to Monero?
lol

2024-05-28 17:28:04

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This is useful sure, at least now you can save a Bitcoin address for a contact and not have to reuse the address which is even worse for privacy, but let's be honest, it's not private at all.
The sender can very easily find out the real address the btc was sent to simply by monitoring the timeframe in question for the exact amount he knows he sent.
Anyone else at a later date can do the same.
I would argue this is more of a convenience feature than anything to do with privacy.

2024-05-27 13:59:05

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Hate speech in the EUSSR, surely!
How dare you question the feminist dogma :O
Heretic.

2024-05-25 15:52:30

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Yes, I can certainly sense the palpable hatred you have for your countryfolk, as well as your rude, smug superior arrogance.
Ironically, fitting the American stereotype pretty well indeed.
And you're right, I'll remain in my own intellectual weight class. Above the rude American woman.

2024-05-25 15:46:08

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Interesting since there are plenty of other places in the world where English is the native language, and yet you're assuming this hypothetical ugly character is American.
Jumping on people for their presumed nationality doesn't look so good either.
And no, I'm not American. And English is not my native language either.

2024-05-23 23:08:21

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Forget custodial wallets, they'll always go after that, it's an easy pressure point.
And yeah, onboarding on lightning without a custodial wallet is a challenge.

2024-05-23 20:21:18

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Of course!
What did you expect?

2024-05-23 18:43:14

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This way exists. See https://www.moneroinflation.com

2024-05-23 18:41:55

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Calling Monero a shitcoin is really ignorant, number one, and number two, have you considered that ecash is a shitcoin? It's just an IOU for bitcoin.
Are you really saying you prefer random digital bits from random people all over the globe, because somehow indirectly it's related to Bitcoin, even though it's ruggable, just so you don't have to use a different coin?
Peak dogma.

2024-05-23 00:19:24

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Did you just assume Mars is a planet?
That's very astrophobic of you!

2024-05-22 22:31:40

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Oh no, we can't have that! Offending people is so offensive and, like, literally criminal man.
I guess this means "free" psychotherapy for you and the gulag for me!

2024-05-22 16:46:47

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Well. The bright side is that it's getting harder and harder for normies to ignore the real nature of those fuckers 🔪
Sorry, was that haaaayte speech?

2024-05-22 01:36:44

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itshappening.gif

2024-05-22 01:34:47

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Same goes for #monero
If you can see why privacy and anonymity are important, and you would like to see that on Bitcoin one day, consider giving your attention to the shenanigans surrounding Monero and so-called "privacy coins" in general.
We're lost if not enough people can understand why the government is going hard against privacy and not enough people realize something has to be done.
Normalize #privacy in every way you can. Privacy is not a crime, and tyrants can go fuck themselves.

2024-05-21 14:00:27

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Desparately -> desperately

2024-05-20 19:37:33

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I think Ted is outright wrong, Hal is right, but what he says is just a possibility, not a certainty.
Computers are tools, like every tools they can be used for good or evil.
But complex tools that they are, they vastly exceed the mental capacity for most people to understand.
Tyrants and authoritarians don't understand computers either (in general), but they know enough about it that they know the masses of clueless plebs can be much more controlled with this technology.
And they have the money and political power to push this down on everyone's throat.
Guess it's up to the honeybadgers now..

2024-05-20 19:34:26

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It isn't, the ego is humanity's biggest scam 😂

2024-05-20 19:31:44

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No idea, I just noticed a small typo in one word and corrected it. I'm using Amethyst. Not sure how it looks in other clients or even how it looks when someone edits *my* posts and proposes an update.

2024-05-20 15:30:39

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But tyranny won't survive Monero :o

2024-05-20 15:30:11

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Not bad at all!

2024-05-20 15:15:38

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Can this be run self-hosted, specifically the internet-enabled functionality?

2024-05-17 01:45:54

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Hmm, isn't it trivial to find out the actual receiving address by doing timing analysis + knowing the exact amount?

2024-05-16 02:17:14

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"AriaVPN recommends #monero (XMR) as the preferred payment method. Monero offers unparalleled privacy and anonymity through advanced cryptography. By accepting Monero payments, we reinforce our commitment to protecting user privacy beyond our VPN service."
Based.

2024-05-15 18:55:18

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Not sure how helpful it is to advertise Monero as a tool for tax evasion.
Monero just keeps the users' privacy, whether they want to break the law or not is another question.
But the point stands, that is not what it is /for/.

2024-05-15 18:06:55

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p2p > cex for sure, but kyc+cex + no privacy + no anonymity (retroactively eliminated on deposit, and inexistent after withdrawal) is a lot worse than kyc+cex + privacy + anonymity.
Which of course is why a certain coin has been getting delisted left and right.

2024-05-15 12:58:54

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I think you have it backwards.
It is the globalist undemocratic & unelected surveillance state that implemented AML/KYC, not AML/KYC suddenly enabling mass-surveillance.

2024-05-14 19:04:09

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Misinformation! Take it down! Close their bank accounts! Ban them from the interwebz!
-- The People Who Know The Truth

2024-05-14 16:23:02

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CBDC - tyrannical statist's perfect dream.
Bitcoin (today) - tyrannical statist's nuisance, but due to lack of privacy and weak pseudonimity can be coerced and turned into statist's dream. This is ongoing.
Monero - statist's nightmare, s/he's so unsure of the value their institutions provide, they need to make sure they see all the plebs do, so they can steal^H^H^H^H^H tax the plebs and guarantee themselves an income by force, not by voluntary cooperation. True challenge to the status quo, although really it just brings normalcy back (no eternal breadcrumb trail of financial actions) after the first few decades of computing taking humanity by storm. Has additional benefits, like instant global reach, which was not possible without technology.
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Key point to understand: Most Monero users would like #bitcoin to be more like #monero - it's not either/or.
If you're in for the freedom aspect, I honestly don't think it is possible without the privacy and anonymity aspects.
Which is exactly why the enemies of freedom (raging Statists) keep attacking #privacy and anonymity.

2024-05-13 22:19:17

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This is copium.
You always have zero privacy with onchain bitcoin, everything you do is forever recorded and public.
You get some pseudo-anonymity, which as all but the maxiest of maxis and the normiest of normies have realized by now is not enough, was never enough, and will never be enough.
Hal Finney was right.

2024-05-13 01:20:06

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And on every step along the way the people who said it would end up like this were called conspiracy theorists.
Seems the last few years is a great time to be a "conspiracy theorist".

2024-05-11 18:55:17

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Perhaps neither.

2024-05-10 18:32:08

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Ladies? Online?
Preposterous!

2024-05-09 13:28:02

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Well, I'd say it's not so much because it's an object per se, more like it has become an external part of your central nervous system, which doubles as a technology-mediated telepathy device.

2024-05-09 13:24:47

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Respectfully, the answer to misguided Bitcoin maximalism is not misguided Monero maximalism.

2024-05-08 14:30:49

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But expected. Haveno will pick up a lot of the slack, but we're dealing with tyrants, whitelisting incoming transfers to bank accounts in the future to "catch terrorists" and "combat financial crime" is not, I would argue, outside the real of possibility.

2024-05-08 13:43:48

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That's how they were when they were younger too.