rafael_xmr

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2025-06-07 12:39:22

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if someone is into nostr they'll feel like every app they use every day is vibe coded

2025-05-28 01:18:46

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Monero digitally poops on all of the above, and the dark net markets flush them into the toilet

2025-05-27 23:30:46

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They need to hear it at least once, then if it happens again they're like "are we missing something ?"

2025-05-27 23:29:19

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LOL

2025-05-27 15:50:09

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True, well said
we learned from it and built something better already, while having users and in practice they have zero use

2025-05-27 13:59:47

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It's a nothingburger
TLDR yes Zcash always had the "superior tech", but they took shortcuts to get there. Like a bodybuilder on steroids.
Zcash had a trusted setup, took dev taxes from coins in order to fund research and their mega corporation, etc. Monero is all natural all organic: voluntary research, voluntary funding, no coins ever taken from anyone, and always being trustless to use. And today in 2025 the XMR community still managed to develop even superior technology than ZCash
So when fcmp++ is live, zcash will be a thing of the past, never having a reason for it to be relevant ever again

2025-05-25 22:00:19

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great video mate. XMR for the win

2025-05-25 13:06:11

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beautiful art

2025-05-24 21:36:58

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welcome

2025-05-23 22:38:55

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Depending on who you ask they may see a better market for "shitcoins on monero" than "shitcoins on bitcoin" since they also get the privacy features, someone even forked monero to create a shitcoin for shitcoins on monero (zano)
But of course it's a smaller network my point is it's still neat how the tx volume and the node count are so high while keeping it monetary mainly, that means every transfer is an uncensorable, untraceable, self sovereign money transmission

2025-05-23 17:57:04

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Haha this wasn't just about privacy, the OP was talking about spam even, and I thought youd agree with anything not trying to spite anything. Here's a challenge come back when XMR has a LN and we compare?

2025-05-23 16:59:47

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we say "Monero is what noobs think they bought"
but it's also what bitcoiners think they bought
> small, 300kb blocks (dynamic to increase but with a miner reward punishment)
> resistant to spam (spam exists: https://github.com/mooonero/mordinals but we use and enforce filters)
> only monetary transactions
> cost effective to be fungible and anonymous money (that means txs are slightly bigger with added privacy, but not as expensive as bitcoin's coinjoins source: https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/comparing-private-spends/)
> it may get LN-like payment channels in the next network upgrade
> no mining centralization
@npub1yxp…399s would LOVE monero if it wasn't a separate coin but was made by the hands of Satoshi himself

2025-05-22 09:32:18

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it will get harder and harder to ignore this niche cryptocurrency only used by nerds and criminals

2025-05-21 08:17:19

gm ☕
monero is moving to flip Litecoin and become the new "silver to bitcoin's gold". the market values the privacy of cash greater than silver
probably nothing
https://cdn.satellite.earth/803be8650cb18a6f4fd6523fc84d24f41352335de3d97af3f60d6458b9de0257.png

2025-05-20 16:00:09

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- Public key crypto was invented in 1976
- Bitcoin was invented in 2009, 33 years later
- Monero was invented in 2014, 5 years later
- Hidden amounts (RingCT) was introduced in 2017, 3 years later
- Full chain membership proofs will be introduced in 2025? 2026? -> 9 years later
The perfect timeline: From 1976 to 2026. 50 years apart from public key cryptography to perfect privacy anonymous black market money
https://cdn.satellite.earth/d7fbd421ba68073778a4d1ef27a85f3488da6d9600d2cbfde40fad9434fbadba.jpg

2025-05-20 14:58:23

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stripe is popular cause it works
for this to work it will need users of custodial wallets (stripe 2.0), or have LN payment failures lol
not super impressive, as it already exists within btcpayserver and we can see it working in the wild

2025-05-20 13:10:33

beautiful. always use kycnot.me 👇
#nevent1q…cjmk

2025-05-18 16:58:33

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The "cypherpunk" account:
- is against Monero
- is against Bitcoin on-chain privacy tools
- In favor of custodial wallets
- In favor of the Liquid Federation's Network
Hmmm what does this quack like 🤔

2025-05-17 15:20:14

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You already answered, some bitcoin is treated different than others, while all Monero is treated the same

2025-05-17 11:47:06

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There's plenty of evidence that BTC is not fungible https://stacker.news/items/926959

2025-05-16 08:08:07

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Of course, that's why Lightning dominates in high threat environments like black markets. It does, right?

2025-05-15 08:17:52

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It's probably related to this: #nevent1q…q6qr Cakepay's service also got disrupted only for BTC payments. It requires an update to everything running BTCPayServer

2025-05-14 23:17:57

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Percebi isso tbm vou tentar trazer de volta pro moStard puxando as mudanças antigas, o dev da nostrudel pode não gostar e tal mas já existe e já tem gente usando, meio ruim simplesmente remover assim...

2025-05-14 23:05:19

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That's epic, instead of maximalism you can join the "minimalist" group: only what works 🫡

2025-05-13 12:30:37

Waoh #primal has amber signing. Finally testing it and it's really good on android (still running moStard on web tho)

2025-05-13 12:22:18

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Not like monero, no, it doesn't hide sender with decoys for example so it has a visible transaction graph, not sure about their layer 2 though seems like a different design but it's not live yet, also MWEB can sort of be traced if a node is online 24/7 and recording everything forever, but it has confidential amounts

2025-05-12 12:06:16

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yep at some point the price will stabilize again so this benefits more people who have business and receive steady income from different days and rates since they accumulate at a dollar cost averaging price, instead of someone buying a bag of coins during a surge and expecting to earn from it

2025-05-12 11:57:15

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study fcmp++

2025-05-12 11:15:54

PSA the #monero :monero_orange: price is kinda crazy right now remember to not FOMO in. p2p fungible money will always be there, let's just build things and ignore short term volatility. instead of buying and selling coins pay and get paid in them
gm ☕
https://cdn.satellite.earth/bd1a4dc76e4ea4cefe807325d22b367f70d58bcf68bc4b2c1ea11dc24e86797b.png

2025-05-11 14:29:42

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>positive since launch
>beginning of upward trend
>preferred by black markets
>general adopting picking up steam
lower your time preference. study Hoppe.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/1108112f20a2df3674c13e761a0372d1f9fc9cdb97ce619b54747c968d952d46.jpg

2025-05-10 21:13:12

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it's called tx chaining and it comes with FCMP++

2025-05-10 18:27:16

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Tari lol they are merge mined to Monero so everyone that mines Tari, has to mine XMR, this is why the hashrate spiked

2025-05-10 17:58:00

>the "monero's ethereum" went live
>hashrate spiked up
>FCMP++ right around the corner
>slight possibility of monero's own LN-like networks existing
>Haveno (no kyc dex) mobile app launched
>...
>the price can't stop going up
is the market trying to tell us something? 🤔
https://cdn.satellite.earth/e7784dd16c0b51471e6eaa959df5dc0e0753dd8ad952dfdb4f75fe7e6a2a304d.jpg
#monero :monero_orange:

2025-05-10 10:43:43

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the biggest troll is when kids bully adults by downloading things for free and ignore all their copyright

2025-05-10 10:41:17

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the web is saved

2025-05-09 22:50:50

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what website is this pls?

2025-05-09 22:49:26

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:monero_black: NOTICE: If you wish to withdraw more than €3,000 in private digital cash, you can just do it lmao

2025-05-05 17:16:28

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you must be right, you should bet against it to see how it goes

2025-05-05 17:09:08

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That is not the full chart, the real one goes back to 2014 and the all time low was on december 2014. Not making a new all time low in all of its history means that bitcoin was never able to break a new high in Monero terms, and started falling again. Now that's the chart you should be worried about.
We are also talking about an asset that is loved by governments and corporations, traded everywhere, of very easy access, slowly becoming a strategic reserve of multiple nations and states, has billionaires with large bags to pump up the price, and just recently in this timeframe broke the mark of 100k USD.
The other asset in comparison has been hated, banished, delisted and supressed, is slowly becoming illegal across the world, a new EU law just passed making it illegal, and has to rely on its own community built P2P markets in order to survive
The fact that Monero is beating Bitcoin in all these conditions combined, is astonishing. It shows the true power of freedom, privacy, and decentralization. I'd still rather stay on the side of agorism and free market economics.
https://bitinfocharts.com/markets/poloniex/xmr-btc-all.html

2025-05-05 12:41:06

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>you are all impoverishing yourselves
Monero is gaining value versus BTC
>luckily I don’t have to convince you
me neither, so far the black markets have spoken, and I don't have time to convince anyone...
>see ya in 10 years if you want to revisit and learn something about money!
I'll definitely keep this saved to ping back in 10 years

2025-05-05 12:36:56

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>The primary reason is ...
>... I can see the state of the entirety of the current supply of the system
you can do that with Monero. the command you are looking for is `print_coinbase_tx_sum` on the monero node
>Then I can verify the schedule for the entirety of the remainder of the supply issuance
you can know the supply of monero for any date in the future. the block reward will remain the same forever.
>Then I can open a lightning channel and transact instant, near-free, self-sovereignly
study fcmp
in sumary, Monero can offer all of this, while being private and fungible at the protocol level, and maintaining the security of the system for any point in time in the future with tail emission, and also being scalable to demand with dynamic blocks while also limiting blocks to be small initially. Bitcoin can't offer this, and never will.

2025-05-03 17:33:28

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:nostr: 🤝 :monero_black:
:okay:

2025-05-02 19:07:14

an online marketplace using digital p2p anonymous money that notifies you via private messaging so you never miss a trade 👇
#nevent1q…mvr3
https://cdn.satellite.earth/e9690b847c223681fcde5e5e5afcdb5c4c147ec11f5f43e6cb4ef83b1c82b680.png

2025-05-02 10:42:55

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really nice interface

2025-05-01 16:57:49

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I didn't watch it yet tbh, and yeah he is one of the signers of the zcash trusted setup so he kind of launched zcash with those other people lol
but it's kinda funny that he is the only person that chose to support and advocate for tail emission outside of monero, and even went to write and make the all the math to conclude it's okay, yet doesn't really like Monero afaik

2025-05-01 16:11:33

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Peter Todd, bitcoin core developer, HBO's satoshi nakamoto:
- tail emission is not inflationary and it is something positive
https://petertodd.org/2022/surprisingly-tail-emission-is-not-inflationary

2025-05-01 08:30:48

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For readers this is the coinjoin he's talking about: https://stacker.news/items/926959
have fun being censored

2025-05-01 08:25:14

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yes it definitely is
like the left guy being living life outside of government control, and the right guy living life as if the government is here to help
the only way to always being optimistic is pretending everything is fine... when you separate yourself from the system and from others, you get on a much darker and harder path

2025-04-30 21:29:06

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the real DNM threat model:
- any wrong move and you spend life in prison
- you can't even tell close friends, partners, family, that you are involved in it, you can't trust even your reflection in the mirror
- you are dealing with people that have no problem getting hitmen to get you killed
the LN bro DNM:
- hey guys feel free to access this on clearnet from your home or a local cafe while being recorded
- hey guys feel free to send payments from the coinos custodial wallet, you can just trust anyone to hold your money for you
- hey guys check this out we're doing very illegal stuff over here (some guy sells brownies and cookies)
- share it with your friends and family!
https://cdn.satellite.earth/b14e4c89f17503de3db05f1f70f8ceb5972a484e3feef3e548088a4ce218a1f1.jpg

2025-04-30 17:01:03

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my basedcoin frens didn't learn the magic trick that makes him disappear, everytime I mention "LN on FCMP", he immediately stops replying to the threads
if you are a hobbyist LN can definitely empower you but it's not a serious payments network for everyone, otherwise none of you would have `coinos` in bio, hence why this hobby can also come to XMR without an issue for anyone that would like to spend time on that

2025-04-29 23:11:25

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The whale can pump but no can dump it! That's because there's not enough Monero for sale for everyone. Not owning Monero now means you either have to buy it higher (whale or not) or you have to provide a good or service that people would buy for their Moneros. The only coin actually used as money

2025-04-29 12:28:09

"damn don't you hate walking around and just seeing static billboard ads? wouldn't it be so much better if everywhere you looked there was a data harvesting, targeted ad that "interests you" right in front of you??"
https://youtu.be/zbfOkhrgxH0?t=4170

2025-04-28 17:46:53

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Bitcoin is centrally planned by a council that you need to be hired by a company like blockstream or chaincode labs and give your KYC info to get a monthly salary to participate in and merge commits to the core codebase.
This council have decided that the block size should have been increased to 4mb (huge blocks), and no one has a say in this, and no one has a say in the future of their money.
Monero has decided to let the community decide so it kept blocks small (300kb) and it can increase in the future (if needed, but with a penalty for doing so) so that only users of the network can control it.
The next Monero upgrade will make its privacy perfect and allow for L2 and scaling solutions to be built, once again removing the load off of the blockchain and allowing it to stay small, forever. No 4mb blocks here.
Choose neutral money, choose apolitical money, choose money that you control and your privacy it protected. choose #Monero

2025-04-28 12:35:41

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#monero

2025-04-28 12:35:08

today's news is about an unknow entity that drops thousands of BTC in an instant swapper to get XMR.
some speculate it's a hack, but no evidence so far
the news broke out a while after Ross saw my reply to his post and zapped it.
coincidence??
https://cdn.satellite.earth/93c6b29b72aef83342d5e04ddb7019cefae9659d9f95bb7597a2d2fa57762053.png

2025-04-28 12:12:54

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https://cdn.satellite.earth/a7a2ea370f2b49f1c7943a94b968522067649520c8477328ea87580b83df62c4.png

2025-04-28 09:36:10

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Don't worry I just got into a call with the Monero CEO and he is going to lower prices and add tariffs for BTC swaps in order to protect from sudden volatility

2025-04-28 09:33:47

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Yeah even if it's the legit owner what's mostly suspicious is the *rush* to get Monero quickly, even if the price raises because of it. Usually only hackers move so recklessly

2025-04-28 08:53:13

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I don't know also, the guy from the tweet in the screenshot is a known researcher in the space but so far we got no clues other than this. I don't follow it that well to know if it's a legit claim or he's speculating himself 🤔

2025-04-28 08:38:23

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we'll see how exchanges react to this. if 1) XMR gets even more banned, or 2) if more of them die down (rip eXch)
but I don't see how this could be bad in the long run

2025-04-28 08:10:20

WTAF
#monero is officially making people rich now.
The market has spoken. Wealth has never been this private in the history of humanity

2025-04-27 13:54:21

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>so I remember how the internet used to be
>RSS feeds
the nostr enjoyer pipeline

2025-04-26 21:43:29

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cashu is built on LN so they'd have all the extra LN management cost and the cost of the headaches and time spent, for very little gain. while XMR is a breeze and just works. if there was on-chain ecash that would make more sense for their models, but then they could be ecash mints of both btc or xmr so at that point they still wouldn't be replacing Monero

2025-04-26 09:00:06

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privacy -> freedom
agree?

2025-04-20 16:45:52

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Choose your fighter ... Statist larpers or pothead normies
They will be your allies but won't help to destroy the state in any meaningful way

2025-04-16 13:35:52

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afaik Arweave was never privacy focused. so just about everything that has a utility token fails, had my lesson learned with LBRY as well. we either build things on top of BTC or XMR or don't build it at all
nym sells plans for btc and xmr but I tried it and went back to mullvad, it just works. even if the token is "not needed" it still makes it worse

2025-04-16 13:24:35

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if btc is so good why is someone buying XMR from him? 🤔

2025-04-15 12:58:15

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Eu já tentei também uma época, recebia em stablecoin pq o contratante preferia, pra mim pessoalmente foi horrível, eles podiam ver toda a minha conta, se eu vendesse tudo em uma exchange eles sabiam, se eu transferisse aos poucos dá pra ver também, na questão de privacidade é perturbador. E de usabilidade também foi horrível: eu nunca tinha ETH então precisava comprar, pra pagar as taxas, pra movimentar meu dinheiro, todo mês isso.
Se não for mais fácil ou melhor pras pessoas elas vão voltar pro pix, paypal da vida, não é a toa que cripto em geral não tem adoção até hoje, e a que é melhor de ser usada é a que é banida

2025-04-15 12:44:17

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boa, melhor parte do mês é o recebimento em Monero. Sem rastros, quem me paga não sabe o que faço com o dinheiro, pagamento funciona 24/7 sem erros, e total auto custódia. Já faço isso a 2 anos. O objetivo é construir redes e plataformas para que todo mundo pague, e seja pago, em Monero. assim o governo deixa de existir.

2025-04-13 12:39:30

More vitamins for Monero with Carrot 🥕
read it on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1iph8fz/more_vitamins_for_monero_with_carrot_part_1/
https://cdn.satellite.earth/3d414835f4698e30c0b6932830975d63bc5688d8429e6f77a57bf35c3ce3221d.png
#monero :monero_orange:

2025-04-13 11:47:09

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Yes. Also, clearnet. Lol. There's a reason bitcoiners or LN bros never advertise on dnm forums like dread

2025-04-09 16:59:50

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RIP guns & bitcoin, which turned into Finney Forum and RIP that as well since the creator (Ragnar) now focuses his time on white supremacy rather than btc & xmr

2025-04-08 18:44:57

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cool to see but you guys should be careful about it, last time this happened the protocol "Taro" had to be renamed to "Taproot assets" 😅

2025-04-08 17:36:03

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that's the literal shitcoin logo https://e.cash/
was it on purpose to "take the logo back" from them?

2025-04-08 11:31:47

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"daddy Trump"
ain't no way brother 💀
https://m.primal.net/QIWV.png

2025-04-08 11:28:45

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> the person who made this meme also LOVES to dick ride Trump
gotta love the self projection.
https://nostr.band/?q=trump+by%3Anpub193jegpe9h0csh7al22mkcstqva2ygyny7ura8kwvrn4tsmtnl4lsrxny6k

2025-04-07 10:16:48

Red monday? gm
https://cdn.satellite.earth/5274e5b1bd46b0cf23b599e21c046daef7694049e7fda9f7d36195557b2d579b.png

2025-04-06 21:33:17

This contest will pay out up to 350 XMR total for the best cryptographic libraries optimization, and anyone can participate!!
https://www.getmonero.org/2025/04/05/fcmp++-contest.html
https://cdn.satellite.earth/0b71fbf4c8a398d36de4a434ebc593e43d6de1e62d7fb96f0a008b14c1c32706.png

2025-04-06 11:50:04

https://cdn.satellite.earth/749fdf5933b3cb5ac6bc3a7df9fd4144d8dd360781e15fb542712e9899c756ef.jpg
#nevent1q…jpt8
forgot I had this meme saved up

2025-04-05 17:44:58

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bad typo but you get it

2025-04-05 17:42:54

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It was only a distribution phase, but if the printing machine stops working that stops the current supply is the new fixed supply forever.

2025-04-05 16:20:32

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If fiat money stops printing, would you say it only had a distribution phase up to now, and never had inflation?

2025-04-05 15:46:59

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bitcoin's max supply will be reached in 2140 and you will be dead, so during our lifetimes, why does bitcoin have higher inflation than monero?

2025-04-05 14:12:10

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So if you think bitcoin mining is theft, that means you support Proof of Stake systems like in Ethereum?

2025-04-05 14:09:57

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Why is there new btc being added in circulation every 10 minutes from mining?

2025-04-04 14:48:33

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I've seen and they even created an on-chain bch zap lol
https://pump.coinmachin.es/

2025-04-03 19:37:20

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> normies use centralized exchanges
> I open le channels myself
Impressive, now let's check the zap address https://m.primal.net/QDKk.png

2025-04-03 12:29:41

GM 🔻
https://cdn.satellite.earth/14004d306abbdac23ccfb8bdb615914fe58264a9a9a0178fa8e5c1f3c16fd987.png
#monero :monero_orange:

2025-04-02 16:45:53

Today is liberation day in America 🇺🇸
https://cdn.satellite.earth/0629f19496ca765b0293b71b0ae5aeafe7c498e2dd74f269253d00a8d1f3d8ac.png
get #monero :monero_orange:

2025-04-01 17:48:06

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perda*

2025-04-01 16:13:43

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the people who don't agree can keep running the old versions of the node :confused: this is how bitcoin vs bitcoin cash came to be, or ethereum vs ethereum classic
even though a monero classic also exists, it's waaay more unpopular than those other crypto's counterparts, it's like if it doesn't exist because it's not even traded anywhere, because everyone agreed to monero's upgrades and have been keeping up so far and there has been no point in keeping the old software version
like right now: the next upgrade being FCMP, people are free to keep using the outdated decoys technology but there's no point, everyone saw the research, the audits, is waiting for the code to be complete, will verify it, then it'll be good to run as a new version, no hostility in pushing it out

2025-04-01 11:52:54

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monero txs are slightly bigger in size than a btc tx, but a monero tx is smaller and more space efficient than a btc coinjoin so you end up paying less in fees and having less blockchain bloat for greater privacy, mining was solved with the creation of randomx in 2019 so no need to keep up, the State needs to control 51% of all CPUs that exist in people's houses, and also the creation and sale of new CPUs that enter the market very rapidly, versus controlling some big mining farms in a single place in BTC, or the creation and sale of ASICs which take months to develop and deliver

2025-04-01 08:56:53

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> consenting adults using computer and pressing "update node" is literally hostile
:smug2:

2025-04-01 08:54:16

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bro got ratiod on nostr

2025-04-01 08:46:16

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Well said for a BTCMAXI

2025-04-01 08:10:53

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Bitcoin has a native scripting language, tokens, NFTs, it just lacks forloops and introspection that would allow it to do what ETH does, but there's soft fork proposals proposing that

2025-03-31 21:25:57

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#Bitcoin > #Monero :
- Smart contracts, programmable money. Monero lacks scripting
#Monero > #Bitcoin :
- Everything else
:peace: 🍿 *grabs popcorn*

2025-03-31 09:17:16

vibe posting
GM
https://cdn.satellite.earth/341b257e2a1ce35023674169c34447ef2603d557bc46b022b99faf793d160823.png

2025-03-30 10:28:06

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It's the people who interact with kruw and his coinjoin who need good opsec, and the best opsec is staying as far away as possible

2025-03-30 10:26:23

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Stay strong. Hope you can make it through this tough time. Just heard about "monero" for the first time and wow, the whole dark web is into this already... people these days....