SaberhagenTheNameless
Saberhagen The Nameless

Even if Monero only ever served as an impetus to hasten sovereign privacy solutions for Bitcoin that just work...then it's still a net positive

Until that happens 👇

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2025-04-25 07:39:16

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Você tem razão. É preciso confiar em qualquer VPN até certo ponto. Com a Mullvad não é diferente. Embora eles tentem minimizar essa confiança o máximo possível. Isso pode ser suficiente para muitos, especialmente se o servidor estiver localizado em outro país. Depende do que você está fazendo e da dificuldade de rastreá-lo, especialmente se for algo tecnicamente ilegal, mas de menor importância.
Se precisar de algo mais robusto, confira o Obscura, que possui dois saltos entre duas partes diferentes (Obscura e Mullvad). Nenhuma delas sabe seu endereço IP ou tráfego da web ao mesmo tempo. Embora eu não ache que elas estejam disponíveis para Linux ainda.
Se você precisa do mais alto nível de anonimato e está sob ameaça crítica, você deve usar uma mixnet como Nym, Tor ou I2P para essa atividade de qualquer maneira.

2025-04-09 08:44:17

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Shouldn't money be able to buy anything including drugs? 🤔

2025-04-09 08:09:10

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Where am I asking him to do anything? Go ahead and quote me. You wont be able to because I didnt.
You're just changing the subject now. This was about the fact that he said he doesn't accept Monero because he "opted out of inflation" but still accepts USD. I'm pointing out his reasoning doesn't make sense if that is why he doesn't accept it. If that upsets you then tough.

2025-04-08 09:58:48

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The lightning bro wants to talk about complexity? 😂

2025-04-04 11:08:05

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It's inflating the circulating supply until the block subsidy goes away. More to dump on the market that wasn't available before which of course affects value for all current holders.
I'm not arguing that Bitcoin doesnt have a final fixed supply. but thats 100+ years away, so you can't claim there is no inflation to circulating supply yet.

2025-04-04 10:19:52

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Whoa! A rare Bcasher on Nostr!

2025-04-03 09:40:39

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@npub1w4u…0jr5
👀

2025-04-03 09:20:01

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Issuance is decentralized, predictable, and requires PoW.
Exact opposite of the money printer and more like gold mining.
Plus, Bitcoin still has an emission. Are all the miners currently robbing the value of your Bitcoin? They're technically inflating the current supply.

2025-03-31 22:43:39

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How would you do that? You have to show at least partial balances (amount of Bitcoin not relevant ot the transaction). And they can also see future balances when you inevitably consolidate for other payments.

2025-03-31 22:41:38

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Bitcoin is an inadvertant surveillance coin in a digital cash costume

2025-03-31 21:20:37

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#Bitcoin > #Monero
Liquidity, historical price performance (in relation to each other), acceptance, recognizeability, security, conservative changes
#Monero > #Bitcoin
Sovereign ease of use for private transactions, anonymity, fungibility, targeted censorship from miners, cheap transactions, adaptability

2025-03-30 15:55:29

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Na, they're around and some people use Keet, but I'm just saying their app is still closed source after saying they would make it open source years ago

2025-03-30 15:27:00

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They talked about Monero briefly around 24:28 and 28:23, but it was pretty open ended and they seemed somewhat hesitant citing "billing" issues. Hopefully at some point they add it, but seems unlikely from this and also reading their forums
https://optoutpod.com/episodes/how-kagi-is-fixing-search-vlad-prelovac/

2025-03-30 14:59:50

"jeffro256 posts February 2025 Monero/Carrot dev update"
https://monero.observer/jeffro256-posts-february-2025-monero-carrot-dev-update/

2025-03-30 13:25:01

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Check out retoswap.com it basically replaced LocalMonero. Or you can quickly swap other crypto for Monero using something like trocador.app

2025-03-29 08:18:43

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>" He's completely ignoring all the issues mentioned in my post. The cool thing about XMPP is that the end-user does not have to listen or obey external rules. While as this author is a bitch slave to Signal's board"
Definitely one of the major benefits of XMPP. I have a few links saved criticizing pretty much every encrypted messenger/protocol. It's hard to sift through all the noise sometimes, whats true, whats not, what is a trade-off, that's why I like seeing what others like yourself have to say about it. Here is one against Signal:
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md#cia-funding

2025-03-28 08:01:53

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Curious to know what you guys think about these criticisms of the current state of OMEMO+XMPP in this article. Valid? FUD?
Conversations and Gajim are mentioned in it as being one of the most popular clients yet it's crypto libraries are way out of date supposedly.
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/

2025-03-23 17:32:38

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Good overview of KYC exchanges, web browser fingerprinting, the academic weaknesses of ring signatures, and legal climate around buying/selling Monero
I've never really thought about the legal paradox part. It gets more difficult to clearly define personal use VS business the more they continue delisting from exchanges. Interesting 🤔

2025-03-23 13:03:05

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>"Lightning network is more secure and private than monero."
-Lightning only works as a hot wallet
-Can steal from others if they go offline for an extended period
-You can effectively make others lose money by force closing
So definitely not more secure than Monero
Privacy is debatable. It's easier for most to use Monero privately than Lightning.

2025-03-20 08:19:32

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That's why I said not necessarily. Depends if you're using your own node.

2025-03-19 09:18:38

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Well in that case Lightning isnt necessarily p2p either. The hops between you and someone else you are paying isn't your peer. Unless you're directly opening a channel with that person which, let's be real, isn't the case for the vast majority of these transactions.

2025-03-17 06:56:13

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Not sure if I trust Zano because of it's unquantifiable premine from Boolberry swap + PoS = effectively a hidden dev tax if so. But we will never know.
Also, with Zano you can only create tokens centralized to the creator and must trust them with issuance.
Beam would be closer to a private Ethereum and more preferable since it actually has programmability and smart contracts.
I've heard of SCRT network but don't know much about it.

2025-03-17 04:33:48

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DarkFi will probably better for those things in the near-term and it's merge mined with Monero

2025-03-17 03:55:44

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I think for this particular implementation it would use on-chain Monero to fund the mint and receive ecash. Ecash itself is fairly anonymous with blinded signatures. Blinded amounts being worked on. No public blockchain.
It would still be ruggable of course, like any ecash so I wouldn't keep much on it, but you would gain some useful properties/features that aren't possible with Monero (instant transactions, very high TPS, ability to peg to USD, no/extremely cheap fees, offline payments, etc)

2025-03-17 03:18:22

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>"I'm asking now why YOU don't only use Bitcoin?"
Bitcoin isn't great for making private and cheap transactions (without introducing complexity or giving up sovereignty)
It's like insisting on using a hammer for everything. Some tools are much better for other tasks.
And lets be real it's not like you don't use shitcoins. I'm sure you use fiat the biggest shitcoin of them all. So the purity test has already failed for you anyway.

2025-03-17 03:02:16

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Oh yea how could I forget NymVPN (mixnet) they just launched
#nevent1q…nc97

2025-03-17 02:54:26

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Bittorrent, I2P, Radicle
Pubky looks promising. Public beta planned for June.

2025-03-15 02:28:47

Hey @npub1w4u…0jr5, just bringing this to your attention, I think you can claim part of the Garnet bounty just get in touch with Plowsof
"Is greenart7c3 aware of this bounty?"
https://bounties.monero.social/posts/147/11-004m-garnet-maintenance-sync-upstream-new-icons-resolve-amethyst-dual-install-conflict-etc

2025-03-15 01:10:21

"Here’s how payments broke down last month:
🥇 #Monero: 67.9%
🥈 #Bitcoin: 30.4%
⚡ #LightningNetwork: 1.3%
💳 Fiat: 0.4%"
https://xcancel.com/shopinbit/status/1899727450898075863

2025-03-14 08:25:31

Nym VPN now accepts Monero & Lightning payments
"RUNNING NYM VPN
PAID WITH MONERO – LIGHTNING IS ALSO AVAILABLE"
https://xcancel.com/TheVladCostea/status/1900295272602763488

2025-03-13 07:51:24

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O Liquid não ofusca ou oculta remetentes/destinatários e ninguém o utiliza, então seu pool de anonimato é extremamente pequeno, mesmo comparado ao Monero

2025-03-11 23:53:56

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Yea it doesn't matter. They would still have a record of you buying Bitcoin/Monero if you bought through a CEX. The argument would be that you have stronger plausible deniability with Monero by default after you withdraw it.
With Bitcoin if you say you lost your keys they can monitor the address to see if it moves later. If you coinjoined *before* that happens you might still be ok, but they could just monitor all addresses after the coinjoin. If they all move at some point after the coinjoin youre probably still be screwed since logically one of them had to be you (even if they might not know which ones). Not sure how feasible it would be to move that amount of Bitcoin through Lightning? (or if you would even want to have that much Bitcoin in what is essentially a hot wallet and less secure than on-chain)
You could instead say your keys were hacked, but could be tricky not linking it to your identity in the future for the average user.
TLDR; Buy and sell Bitcoin/Monero no-KYC

2025-03-09 22:07:58

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Bitcoin is relatively popular now (in minds and conversation), but it hasn't "scaled". Two very different things. Most "hold" their Bitcoin on centralized exchanges with custodians.
Bitcoins value prop doesn't extend to white markets so the vast majority of Bitcoin activity is irrelevant

2025-03-09 21:35:53

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Bitcoin can't scale either even with Lightning.
MimbleWimble and DAGs blow you guys out of the water in scalability.
Welcome to the glass house I saved you a seat.
#nevent1q…qsjc

2025-03-09 15:55:35

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It has nothing to do with your enemies owning Bitcoin. You can't stop that. It's the fact that people like you are so giddy over the government creating a reserve of stolen Bitcoin you forget they're the central threat to it and bootlick. You're hoping it will pump your bags so avoid criticizing it for a cheap dunk on your competition.
Peter Schiff isn't a government using stolen crypto to create a "strategic reserve" so who cares.

2025-03-09 15:10:24

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https://image.nostr.build/b699f0ee85ef05fafdf00d4eab2d712ba8fee87bd62c529e0f832194e2acd6f6.jpg

2025-03-08 23:08:01

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https://image.nostr.build/c071fe16428d4a1fbc88c74c3b615ed53f101999ac00df85a731e4aa4e13060c.png

2025-03-08 19:30:42

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Bitcoin adopting a MimbleWimble-like extension block, like Litecoin, would be a huge privacy upgrade for sure and remove a lot of historical data from the chain for whoever uses it. I almost never see Bitcoiners talk about it though much less push for it. I think they might be scared of the opaqueness it would bring on part of the supply. Not sure.

2025-03-08 13:52:32

"8 days until the launch of NymVPN"
https://nymcom-git-deploy-staging-nyx-network-staging.vercel.app/blog/nym-in-february-2025

2025-03-08 11:18:38

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Largest problem imo is Lightning UX. Harder to use both privately and fully sovereign. Natural outcome is custodians that can spy on them which is what we see for the vast majority of LN users.
Another uphill battle: defaults.
Blinded paths are not widely adopted and only optional in every wallet I know of that has it.
i.e. They just removed tor from Phoenix wallet a few days ago (not that it was private from ACINQ to begin with, but at least you had easily accessible anonymity before).
I do think theoretically off-chain is the best privacy, but if the design choice is bad, lacking proper defaults, and it's built on a transparent base, it becomes a minefield that not many users will make it across

2025-03-05 09:56:05

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Yea, I've already been using multiple wallets and doing this because of Janus Attacks. Maybe overkill but whatever.
Are you sure account/subaccounts help with this? Last I checked you need a totally different seed.
Not sure who the author is I've just seen this link floating around a few places

2025-03-05 09:33:28

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"if such a bug existed, your incentives (as an attacker) would be to slurp up all of the liquidity immediately before 1) someone else starts using the same exploit or 2) devs notice and patch/fork
pretty simple logic"
Not as strong of a guarantee as transparent verification of course, but makes strong enough sense to me incentives wise
https://xcancel.com/tallhatdoug/status/1896776706972934358

2025-03-05 09:15:52

"OSPEAD And The MAP Decoder Attack on Monero"
TLDR; For the extra cautious use two wallets. One for incoming funds and one for outgoing until FCMP is implemented.
"By using two wallets you are actually increasing your privacy to be more than what we thought it was before this attack, because 4.2 times 4.2 is 17.64, which is bigger than 16...The main reason is that we are adding a hop in the transaction graph between any incoming transactions and outgoing transactions. This not only helps your privacy against the MAP Decoder Attack but in various different attacks against Monero."
https://duke.hush.is/memos/6/

2025-03-01 15:32:52

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Thanks. But I don't see any code for the actual mobile app only for the website.

2025-02-28 09:34:28

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Most dishonest shit I've heard. You're speaking out of both sides of your mouth.
If you do accomplish both of these things, why would you potentially fuck that up by using then a transparent ledger? It would be even better for your privacy to use Monero on top of accomplioshing both those things.
Ceteris parabis Monero will always be better for privacy

2025-02-27 11:20:51

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Gold is private and much more popular as a store of value than Bitcoin

2025-02-25 09:06:38

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https://image.nostr.build/9e3637b1196a7948fc85f4f3265256d1260bed2457bcd75a3302522a21c9b4e8.jpg
https://xcancel.com/sethforprivacy/status/1893493994048344347#m

2025-02-24 12:29:00

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What is the point of bolt12 then?
Does it just hide your actual pubkey? I don't get it
Now that you mention it I think I remember you mentioning something about this on Vlads podcast recently

2025-02-23 16:20:45

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What Lightning wallets have blinded paths by default?
They're not popular yet. Zeus even warns you before you turn it on.
Defaults matter.

2025-02-22 06:24:40

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Yes, cash is great locally, but you can't use paper USD to transact instantly with anyone on the planet.
And digital fiat is censorable, confiscateable, and not private.
Monero hes none of those problems (and addition to a long list of things it does better with cash)
>"There's not much demand for an electronic version of this electronic type of cash"
Even Bitcoiners don't believe this. That's why Monero is the most traded currency on Bisq. It also consistently outperforms, or comes close, to Bitcoin at any business that accepts both.
https://image.nostr.build/9e6b52277158beaea43e0bd10c31a8fbd1ca1c10a76e987b15c0dfbaf64cf276.png https://image.nostr.build/0fdb01da9f4e18f99cc7918ffc2c474d75823aea23e67ffe20ffdb5aed68c3e4.png
https://image.nostr.build/ff71d0aec3a490d1890a229d83873d67f5dec079cffee3f17e047b8d0f5fa7ae.png https://image.nostr.build/b11eb621cd38311686bfce8e2448d981c5b23972abb7b6977a81b2b633ced9fa.png https://image.nostr.build/a95c3424a9bd4492a908c892279f4554380ea1e2e3d392087591c681ec58131e.jpg
#nevent1q…uezp

2025-02-22 06:08:09

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Response to the video:
Fiat issuance is centralized, arbitrary, and "printed from thin air"
Compare this to Monero which is decentralized, predictable, and requires PoW (more similarities to gold)

2025-02-21 13:23:16

Update: XMR still punching above it's weight 👊
#nevent1q…uezp

2025-02-21 09:52:16

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Exactly. Look no further than Signal vs PGP for the importance of UX and defaults.

2025-02-21 09:15:00

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Yes yes everyone is dumb and you're very smart. That's how you know you're right you just have to call everyone you disagree with less smart and your arguments turn valid!
>"I admit to being a toxic #Bitcoin maxi"
Thanks for admitting what you previous accused us of. You "just want to yell your opinion/conviction.". You're not interested in the truth or open to being wrong. Bye.

2025-02-20 10:02:00

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Why do you always fail to mention that most people aren't using Lightning that way thanks to it's horrid UX?
90% are using custodians/LSPs that can see everything they do. And potentially rogue employees, hackers, and governments. Data leaks for centralized databases happen constantly I'm sure you know this.
Also, yes please watch the video:
"I'm going to explain why I think Monero is super cool. It really is the frontline of the arms race between cryptographers and investigators like us...Monero has an incredible developer team they are always looking for weaknesses in their privacy protocols, and so they're really proactive in making their protocol the most secure and private that it can be. So theres just really interesting things happning here cryptographically and so that means we also have to do interesting things to *try* and track it."
"I'm not feeling super confident about this"
"It appears"
"We believe"
"If you are a privacy advocate, then Monero is really objectively better than Bitcoin"
"At a certain, randomly selected point, a node will choose to start spreading a tx all around in the network. So if you are receiving it at that later stage, you have no idea whether that IP address you're receiving it from is the same IP address that it came from and in fact, it is very likely that it is not. The initiator's IP address is essentially invisible to you. [...] A lot of how we do our monero tracing involves IP observation of services. [...] Dandelion has made that impossible."
They basically only managed to trace this person because of the combination of connecting to a chainalaysis node to broadcast their transactions, coordinated with exchanges, and didn't hide their IP address.
Who would've thought one could be so careless and have this happen to them? It's a real head scratcher 🤔🤷‍♂️

2025-02-20 09:30:51

https://xcancel.com/OrangeFren/status/1892212186212135094?mx=2
https://image.nostr.build/5e3568be9f88ecdb4efa24e69ee4d916b12687ddb1788621972aed119b1713ca.jpg

2025-02-19 12:26:14

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Seems like Vlad had a kind of disillusionment in last year or so with Bitcoin culture and turned over a new leaf.
He fell out of favor with many Bitcoin maxis "friends" by sticking to what he believed so gotta respect him for that.
Still a Bitcoiner, but now not so averse to other coins. Topic of Monero, privacy coins, and privacy tech is a majority of the recent episodes.

2025-02-19 11:10:44

"Peter Schiff has been Monero Pilled"
👀
https://video.nostr.build/5f6970a8e71fe36437b45763dfb94b8e47f3f192dd27d835cff182c7e9d9d42d.mp4
https://xcancel.com/MoneroMavrick/status/1891909236382118386

2025-02-19 11:07:35

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Been enjoying Bitcoiner Takeover and Ungovernable Misfits. Increase in Monero talk lately.

2025-02-17 08:33:18

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>"So don't ask me to argue about them"
Because you can't 😂
Enjoy being stuck on a non-fungible surveillance coin

2025-02-16 09:25:03

"Monfluo - a pure Monero wallet for Android."
New Mysu fork
https://codeberg.org/acx/monfluo

2025-02-15 07:03:29

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Exactly. It's tentatively private from the general public, but not the custodians or anyone else that gets access to that centralized database. And if there is a data breach, which is very common, it won't be private from the general public anymore either.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
https://leak-lookup.com/

2025-02-15 05:05:18

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Lightning is pretty private if used correctly.
The argument, for me at least, is that because of how hard it is to use that way the vast majority are using custodial wallets like Wallet of Satoshi that can see everything they do (and any rogue employees, hackers, and governments that get acces to that centralized database). Similar privacy to a bank. Even non-custodial LSP wallets like Phoenix don't offer any better privacy (they admit this on their own website)
In comparison, for the average user (by definition most users), Moneros privacy is much easier to attain. Privacy from both counterparty and third parties. Not just one.
https://zapalytics.com/
https://gist.github.com/supertestnet/5bceb60d9c691da744a55dad3f60e65e#file-wallets-txt-L12

2025-02-13 09:25:49

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Mullvad owns both hops for multi-hop so could naively correalate traffic afaik. Obscura is a separate party from Mullvad altogether. An improvement but you still have to trust Obscura and Mullvad aren't colluding.

2025-02-11 00:39:09

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I see what you're saying now. I went back to check and Monero isn't unique for what I was saying aside from maybe Doge outperforming BTC if you bought before 2021.
Still, I think Monero has held it's own relatively well even after all delistings and bans.

2025-02-10 22:28:21

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I'm talking about ATLs though. *Especially* considering everything working against Monero.
You would think the best money in the world and the clear winner would continuously make new ATLs against Monero on the way here. That's not the cast though.

2025-02-10 22:15:17

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Ok thanks for correction ATL*
But the point still stand though does it not?

2025-02-10 22:01:32

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Are you denying your last ATH against Monero was in 2018? (despite everything working against Monero)

2025-02-10 21:55:46

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The more private one is when all your transactions take place on LN custodians like Wallet of Satoshi servers that only them, hackers, and any three letter agency can see
(and the everyone else when a databreach happens)

2025-02-10 21:36:36

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Your last ATH was early 2018 despite the table being fully tilted against Monero
https://image.nostr.build/1ee95cf48ec0d4fe093126a21fb29b28313b09c39c916207929927ff1a818ab7.png

2025-02-07 09:47:37

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Sounds based af

2025-02-04 13:30:37

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What the hell are you talking about?
Is Saylor your boyfriend? 👬

2025-02-04 11:21:29

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I assume you think that erases the KYC record of you buying X amount Bitcoin conveniently available for criminals and governments
Spoiler alert: It doesn't

2025-02-04 09:41:09

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Be gone surveillance coiner

2025-02-02 20:05:00

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Sure, but those using those wallets aren't really "using" Bitcoin are they

2025-02-02 18:53:03

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Asking custodians permission to move around IOUs on centralized servers is living on Bitcoin?
That's what vast majority are doing in these places with Wallet of Satoshi, Strike, Blink, Chivo, etc
https://xmrbazaar.com/
https://moneromarket.io/
https://monerica.com/

2025-02-02 18:41:53

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Cheering on a KYC custodian with zero irony. Lmao.
Your ilk are turning Bitcoin into absolute 🤡💩
https://xcancel.com/lopp/status/1885808221610291443
https://image.nostr.build/d0caf1fbf38b76f7d892e76aadde0792ec9fd1be7806a02657f724984bad719d.jpg

2025-02-02 14:57:35

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>"I do not understand this argument. To me it completely misses the point: I argue that self-custodial lightning has better privacy than custodial lightning"
It matters because it's complexity prevents most users from ever using Lightning privately+self-custodially. Essentially you're saying it has the potential to be very private, but what does that matter when it comes to how vast majority are using it? It's similar to why PGP failed to get broader adoption. UX means only you and and a handful of people are using Lightning that way.
>"Making blocks dynamic in size with the hope that someday technology will solve all the problems it brings"
I showed you a chart of tech advancements since inception of Bitcoin. Bitcoin blocksize hasnt even kept up conservatively.
Seems all for nothing at the expense of usability: ~60,000 node runners. ~50-100 million Bitcoin users. Apparently vast majority of Bitcoiners won't ever run a node even if they can.
Also Bitcoin is relying on this "wishful thinking" too to some degree since Lightning doesn't even scale globally without 100MB+ blocksize.
>"that incentivizes them to place *their own* limit on the size of their own blocks"
Not sure I understand what you're saying. Why would they do this? Penalty of increasing blocksize decreases with more use. Those doing that would just be leaving money on the table.
>"You're not sovereign if you're not running a node"
So you're conceding 95%+ of Bitcoin/Lightning is not sovereign? I think it's safe to say there are way more Monero node runners as a percentage of users than Bitcoin. Bitcoin has far more users, but the difference in total nodes is only a factor of 2x-6x vs Monero depending how you count them.
>"So at some point 0.6 XMR will have no material value. It will be worth less than 60 cents of today's money. Consequently, miners will need another source of revenue."
Ok, but doesn't that mean Bitcoin will be in an even worse state?
No block reward at all + sparse/no mining tx fees because almost everyone would be using an L2 at that point for almost all their transactions.

2025-02-02 12:28:17

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Correct me if I'm wrong but your whole forecast seems to rest heavily on technological advancement remaining stagnant over time. Historically we see the exact opposite.
Dynamic block size means fees will always stay low even with increased adoption meaning more sovereign usage and better operability with L2s.
Tail emission means we don't have to roll the dice on tx fees securing our blockchain in the future.
Only a select few can arguably claim they have better privacy on Lightning. Vanishingly few Lightning users are transacting privately and non-custodially.
https://xcancel.com/lopp/status/1885808221610291443
https://xcancel.com/peterktodd/status/1885792115713626537
https://monero.fail/map
https://image.nostr.build/563fe6fae92d9f1459b7f4bc85978712a23a1b2c08bd389e681bad97f97a84e7.jpg

2025-02-01 11:11:29

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Each of those have listings/offers where you can meet in person. I know XMRBazaar is implementing a visual map like your link soon.
Only other thing I can think if is coinradar which you can filter for Monero
https://coinatmradar.com/

2025-02-01 11:04:43

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You sound threatened

2025-02-01 11:03:34

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The market is never settled. It's a continuous process of discovery. Giants fall all the time.

2025-02-01 11:02:16

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Monero will never see enough demand to need it...but also simuiltaneously doomed to fail because it's impossible for the base chain to scale. Sounds like it will continue to work fine, or be such an overwhelming success that it supposedly won't scale. What a great problem to have.
And Bitcoin is about 15 years behind in privacy tech. Catch up. Even LTC has better privacy than you guys with MWEB.
Lightning is your best attempt at an L2 and all that has managed to do is increase complexity so that 90%+ of users are on custodians.

2025-02-01 10:48:44

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https://xmrbazaar.com/
https://moneromarket.io/
https://monerica.com/
https://retoswap.com/

2025-02-01 10:41:44

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https://image.nostr.build/563fe6fae92d9f1459b7f4bc85978712a23a1b2c08bd389e681bad97f97a84e7.jpg

2025-01-29 09:36:30

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Maybe. We'll see what happens. I really don't care as long as it has strong privacy, is self-custodial, and relatively easy to use.

2025-01-28 08:55:43

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DNMs typically have custodial wallets (the market itself is escrowing funds for the sellers and buyers) so that would make zero difference (this is how markets exit and rug everyone in the first place). You would have the same situation of no privacy from the market for any funds on it.
So DNMs just decided to switch over to a coin with a tiny fraction of Bitcoins liquidity for fun? DNMs had to decide to introduce Monero in the first place out of all the other crypto alternatives out there. They weren't simply doing it because of Greshams law. Strong default privacy in a highly adversarial environment and very cheap transaction fees were the real reasons.

2025-01-27 12:56:57

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All DNMs are used for is to deposit or withdraw transactions. No one is using them as their personal wallets. If Lightning was on DNMs it would have the same issue.
If the reason DNMs are adopting something was because of Gresham's Law there would be much better(worse?) crypto to do that with than Monero.
It's the strong default privacy and relative ease of use vs the alternatives.

2025-01-26 17:05:57

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What meme?

2025-01-26 11:41:41

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TLDR
it CAN see IP address, last block synced, and potentially manipulate your decoys (reducing your sender privacy)
it CAN'T see amounts, receiver addresses, balances, and transaction history
If you don't run your own node there are practical things you can do to reduce/eliminate what little malicious nodes can see be using TOR/VPN + changing the remote nodes you use for every transaction or at least periodically switching them. But of course the best privacy is always to use your own node.
"potentially manipulate your decoys" part will soon be remedied and be one less thing it can see when Monero upgrades to FCMP
Good resource on what a malicious Monero node can and cant see:
https://localmonero.co/knowledge/remote-nodes-privacy

2025-01-26 11:23:46

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O Bitcoin tem um nível de rastreabilidade sem precedentes que nunca existiu no ouro ou no papel-moeda.
Isto também torna o Bitcoin menos fungível e menos resistente à censura, uma vez que os mineiros têm o potencial de colocar endereços específicos na lista negra. Isso não seria possível se fosse privado. O facto de o Bitcoin ser rastreável é uma questão de compensação, não algo objetivamente bom.

2025-01-26 11:18:29

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A emissão de moeda fiduciária não é descentralizada, previsível ou requer PoW. Parece muito diferente para mim.
Essas características tornam o Monero mais próximo do ouro. Até mesmo o ouro, o dinheiro da humanidade por milhares de anos, teve uma pequena quantidade de inflação anual por milhares de anos e continua até hoje. O fornecimento fixo do Bitcoin é uma aposta arriscada em sua segurança futura.
Sim, e a grande maioria desses usuários em El Salvador e no Brasil está usando carteiras de custódia, então eles não estão usando Bitcoin. Eles estão usando IOUs que podem ser inflados.

2025-01-26 11:11:18

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Ser capaz de vigiar as transações de todos é algo bom?
A emissão de moeda fiduciária não é descentralizada, previsível ou requer PoW. Parece muito diferente para mim.

2025-01-26 10:25:39

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Who is saying that?
It is true though that if you run your own Monero node you have better default network protection because of Dandelion

2025-01-26 09:59:36

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bitcoin has surveillance, bitcoin is evil /s
🙄

2025-01-25 12:36:09

Don't think I've ever interacted with this person but they blanket muted me just because I'm a Monero-enjoyer. I have seen their notes on my timeline every now and then and thought they were kind of funny and light-hearted. Another brick in the echo chamber I guess.
They can do whatever they want, but it just makes me wonder: Whats the point of this thing if you're only listening and conversing with people that largely agree with you in this already tiny niche? Makes even Twitter look like a thriving marketplace of ideas in comparison.
#note1c5s…ak70

2025-01-25 12:20:37

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Dude you're still making this argument? 😂
Ok Lightning is kind of used in a two DEXs and one of those is dominated by Monero and the other also has Monero. Even if you're right not sure how that strengthens your point. Besides that Lightning is absent in all the rest of DNMs.

2025-01-25 11:48:51

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https://image.nostr.build/c022f87a0b39b2e924e79059079959f7af16435592a4af6b164674cc0db32099.png

2025-01-25 09:46:00

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"Monero doesn’t encrypt any of those things. It perfectly hides the amount, it perfectly hides the recipient (more akin to hashing than encryption), and it obscures the sender - but in future it will perfectly hide the sender too.
Anything encrypted can be decrypted, and Monero simply doesn’t encrypt anything because its users value privacy and can’t take that risk."
https://xcancel.com/fluffypony/status/1824433941459157115

2025-01-24 09:58:48

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Seems so. If not here are a few more Monero relays you can use:
https://github.com/hundehausen/monero-nostr-relays