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Cool, but why?)
Looks cool.
Oldschoool-web-looking site for the desktop users: https://lcwo.net/
I'd recommend not using an important email address for it though (use a 10-minute mail), I had an account that I suddenly couldn't log in to. Site might not have the best security.
Account on the site, I mean. I used a 10-minute mail.
If you genuinely think Monero is a scam and isn't a useful tool for sovereign individuals, you're a blind zealot. Your twitter rant sounds more performative than genuine to me though. I don't think you're actually that much of an idiot
How does your Shitcoin relate to my Morse code app recommendation?
What shitcoin?
Here's why hard forks are a big problem for the credibility of the supply...
Imagine there was a group of people who could hard fork gold. Let's call them the Gold Cartel.
Suppose the Gold Cartel decided to hard fork gold to change its essential characteristics (what they would euphemistically call a "protocol upgrade"), but not the gold supply.
Then suppose the Gold Cartel mandated a gold hard fork that would change gold from a solid to a liquid and from the color yellow to brown. But they decided that, this time, they would leave the gold supply unchanged.
They claimed they were making these changes to gold to upgrade its fungability and that everyone must go along with them and their new and improved version of gold.
Then suppose the Gold Cartel told everyone the gold hard fork would occur in 2 weeks and that everyone in the world must come to one of the Gold Cartel's offices to exchange the old yellow, solid gold for the new brown, liquid gold.
After the Gold Cartel's hard fork, the old yellow, solid gold would no longer be valid. It would no longer be gold and thus useless to anyone who didn't exchange it for their newly mandated liquid brown gold.
In such a situation, would gold be a neutral, apolitical, decentralized asset?
Would its supply have any credibility?
Or would it be a shitcoin?
Monero and all so-called "privacy coins' ARE shitcoins... here's why....
The most important characteristic of a good money is that it is credibly “hard to produce,” which makes it resistant to debasement.
All other monetary characteristics—including privacy and fungibility—are meaningless if the money is easy for someone to produce.
For example, I can obtain good privacy by using physical Argentine peso bills in transactions, but that doesn’t mean the peso is good money.
The same concept applies to so-called privacy coins.
Like all altcoins, it is trivial for privacy coin developers to change the protocol through hard forks, which they frequently do. That means their monetary policies have no credibility, and their scarcity is artificial because the developers can change the protocol. It might be a neat privacy tool, but it won’t be a good money.
It is far better to have a money that is credibly resistant to debasement—like Bitcoin—and build privacy features on top of it rather than start with something that can easily be debased but has good privacy.
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Love this thanks!
Also, i learned Morse code as a kid by reading the mysterious Benedict society! Great book series for the kiddos
Must have been really cool to learn it as a kid. Totally part of your brain now. I’ve always struggled with it. Hope my kids learn it young. Languages are super powers.
So grateful for those books for sparking my interest! Never thought it was an important skill until recently.
I definitely still struggle too, perfect time for the kids to learn :)), truly incredible how easy languages stick when you’re young.
I can confirm, this app works.