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Monero XMR is what you think Bitcoin is.

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2024-09-17 04:32:37

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i listen casually when i have enough time to follow a full episode. you do the best, unbiased, thought provoking bitcoin podcast i know.

2024-09-09 01:12:53

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so you would send your coins to a trusted third party in order to get large string tokens which only work at this one mint in order to pay streaming services by the minute, which have to support the same mint?

2024-09-05 13:55:03

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What is needed is Bitcoin with privacy. Or Monero

2024-08-30 02:39:44

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Likely you spend a couple weeks in jail, maybe get out and as soon as you move it, you go to jail again. Whats the difference between funds you can not move or funds you do not have?

2024-08-29 01:04:07

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How exactly? When you bought on a KYC exchange, the state knows that you bought and have it, then they come to your home and you will give it to them, else you go to jail.
How is that hard to confiscate for an entity with an monopoly on violence?

2024-08-23 01:20:10

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facepalm.gif

2024-08-13 01:30:34

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do you support users from costa rica?

2024-08-09 19:06:14

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Arrived at XMR after years of using lightning, seeing how its used in El Salvador and Costa Rica and realizing that it is complete bullshit.

2024-08-09 19:02:37

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Hear me out.... BTC is a shitcoin now and the Bcashers were right...

2024-08-09 19:01:55

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Nostr is not preventing the cops showing up at your door...

2024-08-09 18:52:31

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UX is still terrible if you dont want to use a custodial wallet. Fees are way higher than a few sats if you dont transact within the same wallet ecosystem.
Lightning has promised a lot and has not delivered on its promises at all. Relying on Lightning to scale BTC was a huge mistake and it has set back BTC development for many years.

2024-08-09 18:17:10

Funny to me that Walker does not get that Bitcoin is communication and it needs to be private too. Bitcoin Maxis and their cognitive dissonance....
#note1njg…x9es

2024-08-08 20:28:12

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as tainted coins are a thing, the more businesses use AML tools like AMLBot, the more you need to check the coins you are going to buy p2p in order to be able to spend them later without problems.

2024-08-07 22:43:09

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Sure, nobody knows the future. I also hope BTC fixes its fundamental problems but its not looking good imo.

2024-08-07 18:49:55

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AML tools for chain analysis do not work on Monero. On BTC it is already a problem

2024-08-07 14:56:24

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IMO the switch is inevitable. People will realize that BTC is not usable as money without custodians, AML and KYC.
Will take some time for sure but i am confident that people who invest in privacy tech now will be the big winners in the end.

2024-08-07 14:39:03

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Technically XMR is not in a uptrend against BTC yet, so i bettter DCA.
Also, i have not given up hope that BTCers will wake up, see and fix the flaws of BTC.

2024-08-06 18:45:54

I will convert BTC to Monero every day until i either run out of BTC or BTC evolves into something which can actually liberate people instead of enslave them.

2024-08-06 18:43:13

Good thing we do not build privacy into BTC so they can arrest and punish us easier, build graphs on who we transact with and go after our friends and family as well. Freedom money, fuck yeah!
#note1epq…ddrd

2024-08-04 16:35:27

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Does not convince me at all, sorry. The user experience is just super terrible and leaves a lot of room for mistakes along the process which would undo all privacy.
Missing privacy and fungibility in BTC is making it useless as money and when every government can see your net worth, it will also turn out to be a crappy store of value in the end.
It is sad but it is obvious.

2024-08-04 15:07:40

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The word privacy appears 1x in that article, in a quote from somebody else.
Seriously i can not take any Bitcoiner serious who does not address this issue.

2024-08-02 14:46:13

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she got fat and unfungible.

2024-08-02 04:57:01

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People must be able to choose if they want to store their value publicly or privately. It has to happen.
May the fork be with us.

2024-07-31 19:33:16

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So, we replaced bank brand old with bank brand new.
The future of finance is here!

2024-07-31 19:31:26

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As it is not Bitcoin, it is a shitcoin. Its owned by some corporate entities which get all the fees and they can censor you. If they have that possibility, they will use it when the Feds ask them to. Maybe not now but in a couple of years when Liquid infrastructure is built.
To me it is just unfathomable why BTC Maxis simp for Liquid. It is the most anti bitcoin thing i can think of.

2024-07-31 19:20:57

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In order to get the ecash, you need to send an onchain transaction to open a lightning channel, pay onchain fees, then send btc to the mint on lightning, pay fees on that again, then you get the ecash which needs to be withdrawn later - all that for $5?
Whats the use case for buying something with ecash for $5?

2024-07-31 19:16:29

https://m.primal.net/JkVD.jpg
With Lightning we will have transactions for single digit satoshis they told me in 2017. Private and self custodial and all.
What we got is even worse than credit cards.

2024-07-31 19:12:40

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Sure there is not one "we".
But how many people do you know which want to dca $3 a month into BTC and think they will escape extreme poverty that way? On a ledger where a transction costs you often more than $3?
I think thats all just made up stories to justify crappy, corporate scaling solutions, so crappy that i rather use cash and a credit card instead.
Same for FEDI. If dont even have custody of our funds, we can dump that whole idea of freedom money immediately, embrace the CBDC and get some vaseline so the state can fuck us better.

2024-07-31 19:07:00

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exactly.
It is just terrible.

2024-07-31 19:05:40

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There i no noncustodial L2 solution which a normie can use in a private way.

2024-07-31 17:24:23

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Are you talking about Monero?

2024-07-31 17:15:49

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Isnt Liquid just a corporate Shitcoin?
They own your BTC, you own their L-Token. They can censor your transactions on their network. It is not decentralized, the network is owned by a couple coporations.
Why should we go that path at all?
Whats the big difference to using WBTC on Ethereum?

2024-07-31 17:10:51

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You forgot:
- if the mint vanishes, all you have is some random strings and they have your Bitcoin.

2024-07-29 22:53:49

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Im in it since a very long time, i fail to see BTCs importance more and more.
It offers no privacy, gets AML and KYC´ed everywhere, anybody can see your transactions, still has a1mb blocksize, still has high tx fees onchain, is marketed as a store of value now, was a p2p currency once when i got excited about it.
Lightning promised and lied a lot and offered very little to scale in a self sovereign way.
Now people are stupid enough to want to use Liquid for scaling, a privately owned blockchain with their own shitcoin, which can censor transaction and will do everything the states want them to do... And you have to swap your bitcoin for their controlled shitcoin?
Seriously, why is BTC so important?
It has lost the properties which made it important and did not adopt features which would make it important, like privacy. CBDCs are coming and instead of helping us avoiding the tyranny, Bitcoiners are simping to politics and dont implement anything interesting because they want the state to buy the thing which should separate the money from the state...

2024-07-27 22:06:54

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Monero is the best alternative currently.

2024-07-27 01:49:52

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I agree with you, but reliable transactional privacy is critical to not enslaving ourselves.

2024-07-27 01:47:16

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that volume is unrealistic imo if you wanna sell it for fiat

2024-07-26 14:40:23

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It is because BTC is transparent and not fungible.

2024-07-25 01:51:21

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XMR integration and a easy swap between BTC and XMR would be cool to have stronger privacy if needed. So you can still hodl your favorite store of value but benefit from strong transaction privacy in a user friendly way.

2024-07-24 14:23:18

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Wash your hair with diluted apple cider vinegar ( 1/8 ), it is awesome.

2024-07-23 16:50:03

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"From the get go" - it is 7 years already. Lightning is still crap.
BTC is now marketed as a store of value as it lost its properties as a p2p currency. There are thousands of stores of value already, gold is one. The state has no problem with another store of value.
The state has a problem when we use our own money. Especially one which it can not trace.

2024-07-23 16:16:25

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you forgot that it is fungible and private too.

2024-07-23 14:20:09

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i like them with tamarind sauce, slowly cooked.

2024-07-22 22:14:28

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Tell me more about freedom while i use your custodial wallet Jack.

2024-07-22 22:11:00

BTC is freedom money for NPCs.
#note1p4e…q7ln

2024-07-22 22:04:33

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Will you accept coinjoined utxos when you have doubts the next person you wanna transact with will accept it?
They will delist Monero, sure. If we are serious about building a parallel society, we should embrace the separation from the normies.

2024-07-22 21:59:30

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IMO they dont need a fork, they just need to outlaw non KYC transactions. Its a fully transparent ledger, so its easy to connect it with a KYC database and force the usage on all businesses, exchanges etc.
BTC is seriously fucked already, it lost its properties as P2P money, lightning is mostly used with custodial solutions, which is just Paypal on Bitcoin and invites mandatory KYC.
I recommend reading "Hijacking Bitcoin", it will give you a new perspective on what happened during the Blocksize wars.
I was a big believer in Bitcoin and recommended it to many people - not anymore. Now the only thing i recommend for freedom and sovereignty is Monero.

2024-07-22 18:58:49

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Havent had problems with Merchants but with exchanges and instantswaps. Bisq only moves the problem to the next sucker imo.
I am afraid we will use AML tools ourselves in the near future so we can make sure we are not buying tainted or coinjoined coins on DEXes.

2024-07-22 18:51:24

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I think he is facepalming all day. Because people call a completely transparent ledger which scales through custodial solutions "Freedom Money".

2024-07-22 18:25:07

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Bitcoin is being taken over by the system. My bet for freedom is on Monero.

2024-07-18 15:18:06

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Ii am seeing the development into a future where non kyc btc transactions get harder and harder through regulation and aml/onchain analysis.
You have to interact with businesses, they will comply with aml and kyc.
KYC data will leak, others will know how much you have etc. - the chances of BTC turning into a nightmare are pretty high imo.

2024-07-18 08:52:53

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It is permissionless but if you risk going to jail for using it, how does that help you? Who will accept it?
Whats your plan when the gov bans bitcoin?
IMO the chance they are banning is relatively low. BTC is no problem for the state, it does not work as money, it is a "store of value" now. There are numerous stores of value, no problem for the system.
It was a p2p currency once, that is a serious risk for the state. A store of value is not, just like Gold.

2024-07-18 08:38:47

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Why can they not stop thier people from using it? A 10 years prison sentence on using it will stop it immediately. It is a transparent ledger, easy to find out who transacts with whom and to prosecute it.

2024-07-18 08:35:13

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i would say as long as bitcoin is a transparent ledger, of course KYC and AML will turn it into a surveilance monster.
As tainted coins are a reality, we will have to AML each other as nobody wants to receive tainted coins which will cause problems for the receiver in the future.
BTC is doomed if nothing changes.

2024-07-17 08:20:13

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Learn Monero.

2024-07-12 13:28:10

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And why is he not using Monero?

2024-07-11 13:58:04

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Pura Vida!

2024-07-11 12:55:51

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i am also not against bitcoin at all, but recommending it as freedom tech is completely misleading and putting people at risk. Not mentioning much better solutions is malicious.
Everybody is free to convert its XMR back into BTC later if they want.

2024-07-11 10:23:12

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Funny thing you chose a character from the imperial forces to promote BTC.
Fits perfectly well with the way BTC is going currently.

2024-07-11 10:16:36

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Would love this to be true but i lack the imagination of how we are getting to that punch with the NGU crowd.

2024-07-11 10:11:44

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If Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney would have known where this is going, they would never wasted their time on BTC.

2024-07-11 10:07:22

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michael saylor is already waiting in line to lick like a professional rimjob stunt double.

2024-07-11 09:56:39

Bitcoin is getting hugged to death by the system.
#note1xfg…2vcr

2024-07-11 09:55:32

Would be nicer to see them coming to the correct conclusion, which is Monero - but anyway, great girl!
#note1c93…g9fn

2024-07-11 09:53:11

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So we are two already who wonder why HRF and @npub1trr…hdpu are promoting BTC as freedom tech, which offers no privacy at all and chose a path clearly against self custody.
They are either stupid or malicious.

2024-07-10 16:21:16

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Monero does not give a fuck.

2024-07-08 19:31:59

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how do you rent a car with out a credit card?

2024-07-06 19:18:51

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Fluffypony

2024-07-05 08:42:33

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Converting some BTC to XMR every day

2024-07-03 09:01:48

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Imagine the government would mandate everyone has to store its value on a public, transparent ledger - so everyone, including Feds, criminals, your ex wife and your neighbors can see how much you have and with whom you transacted.
There would be outrage about this retarded idea. Yet, the store of value argument is the last thing BTC holds on to as it has lost almost all properties which made it interesting in the first place. Sad.

2024-07-01 15:03:42

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The bullishness only goes to a certain point, then you realize using a zero privacy chain where everybody including the Feds can see how much you have and with whom you transact is a pretty stupid idea.
The rest of the bullishness is gone when you realize that self custodial Lightning does not work as promised and when everybody is forced to use a custodial solution, Bitcoin is completely useless.
Then you start reading more about Monero.

2024-07-01 09:36:18

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There is a circular economy in Costa Rica already. Everybody is using custodial wallets, most use the same custodial wallets.
How exactly does this change the world? Is it not only replacing one trusted third party by another third party?
Serious question.

2024-06-29 18:27:37

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Really sad but that is how it is.
I was also waiting for onchain privacy for 13 years, now i convert BTC to Monero and the more i think about it, the less arguments i find why is should store wealth in a open public ledger at all?

2024-06-25 11:24:39

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still blows my mind BTC has no onchain privacy and some people think we will gain freedom from the state this way...

2024-06-23 14:46:56

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It says "p2p digital currency" in the headline of the whitepaper, ROFL

2024-06-23 14:44:13

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ecash is a trusted third party

2024-06-23 14:39:39

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BTC number go up people think its necessary to run a node on a $50 raspberry pie while paying $80 for a transaction.
Also who cares much about nodes when 12 entities control BTC mining and transaction templates?
Or that people can not self custody their coins because of way too high fees? Without that, BTC is worthless.

2024-06-23 14:32:19

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Yea, they even cheer for Liquid, a privately owned sidechain which is under full control of a federation and which earns all the fees..

2024-06-23 14:29:48

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The headline of the whitepaper says p2p digital currency, that wasn't some accident either...
If we rely on trusted third parties, we will have monetary debasement.

2024-06-23 14:26:51

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When only BTC rich people can use it in a self sovereign way, we just recreated the banking system.
Why should everybody suffer high transaction fees, even for lighning onboarding, because some dude with a shitty internet connection wants to run a full node out of his moms basement on a raspberry pie?
What does that do to the cost of a transaction?

2024-06-23 08:24:56

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Your answer has nothing to do with what i wrote.

2024-06-23 07:51:36

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Bitcoin is centralized already with only 12 entities controlling the mining and block templates. Lightning is terribly centralized as everybody uses custodial wallets. Not your keys, not your coins.
Start thinking for yourself instead of repeating the lines from 2017.

2024-06-23 07:46:47

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That is just not true. Monero has adaptive block size and works very well. Even BCH works well and has low fees.
I am not proposing scaling on chain only, but sticking to the 1MB limit while technology progresses is just stupid and in the end, will make BTC a failed project.

2024-06-23 07:39:58

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Repeating things does not make them true though. Also nothing was settled, we never voted for a "forever 1 mb limit" in 2017. And a lot was promised in 2017 but very little was delivered.
The 1mb limit is ridiculous, a 12TB hdd costs around $100, if one wants to run a node and does not want to spend a few hundred bucks for that, he should not run one.
The result of that limit is that fewer people can afford onchain fees, self hosted lightning also gets unattractive due to high fees and most people are pushed into custodial lightning wallets, which offer zero privacy, zero sovereignty, full dependency from a third party and soon KYC and AML.
Without offering sovereignty and privacy, BTC gets integrated into the banking system and we win nothing

2024-06-22 22:05:40

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shit just gets more and more complex and more and more trust in third parties is needed. Increasing the blocksize regularly and adapting to technological progress seems like such an easy and elegant solution in comparison...

2024-06-22 22:03:27

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as far as i understand it, ecash has nothing to do with bitcoin at all. you can say you back it with whatever you want as it is backed by nothing at all, you can create an endless amount of ecash.

2024-06-22 22:01:13

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Self custodial lightning is still a total pain in the ass to use and the fees are nowhere near a few sats. At least that is my experience

2024-06-22 22:00:07

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How do you know there is no other way? Which ways have we tested on a large scale already so we can be sure this is the only way? Serious question

2024-06-21 15:21:12

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Please Sir, make number go up!

2024-06-21 13:47:13

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The elite is always a minority

2024-06-19 21:54:12

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People are people, if they bought BTC or not, does not make them smarter. Most just repeat what they heard somewhere and many can not reason on their own, they need a parent/authority their whole life to tell them what and how to think.
Maybe the early Bitcoiners were a different breed but most people who came in the last couple of years are dumb sheep. who joined a new religion.
A part of me is happy that they dont get stuff sooner, most business opportunities develop by seeing things everybody will need or want in the future much earlier and acting on it.
The other part of me hopes they will get it before it is too late.

2024-06-19 09:40:57

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Dont be frustrated, appreciate the opportunity to convert more BTC to XMR at a great price.

2024-06-19 08:03:27

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so few can see this...

2024-06-18 21:27:07

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Still waiting for a release of the Monerosigner

2024-06-18 11:59:41

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To buy and use non KYC BTC in a truly anonymous way is not easy at all. I dont understand why BTC is recommended to people who have a high risk already when there are much better solutions on the market like Monero.
IMO you expose people to totally unnecessary risk.
It is like saying "just send your sensitive data with a post card and do not sign it with your name" instead of telling people to always use an envelope.

2024-06-18 09:56:27

Monerokon was a great event, i really enjoyed it.
BTC Prague was boring in comparison, too many NGU normies and way lower average IQ than on Monerokon.

2024-06-18 09:50:30

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I hope for a private fork one day, that would be a epic move.
Let people onboard to the transparent thing the state can not really ban and then fork and gift a private version to everybody who holds its own keys for free.
And while i dream this dream, i BTC cost average into Monero every day.

2024-06-18 09:41:11

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I talked with a couple of them on the BTC Prague, most dont even realize that storing your wealth on a public, transparent ledger is a stupid idea.
If you ask them if they would use a public transparent ledger when the government mandates it, they say "hell no"

2024-06-17 19:32:01

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So, is your recommendation to use BTC, a fully transparent public blockchain to hide from CBDCs with government surveillance?

2024-06-17 12:37:54

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Bitcoiners do not mind, storing everything on a public transparent ledger since 2009.