Where did Monero come from?

Do we know who made it?

Is it still being controlled by the developer?

I'm actually curious about it. I don't know much about it.

I'm glad Monero is getting some respect.

I don't have any nor have ever, but every time I go back to the ideas the Satoshi built, and built on, I feel there are missing pieces to this.

Monero seems to have configured at least some of these pieces.

I esp. am interested in the distributed mining and obv. the privacy.

Cool stuff.

The *real* question we should be asking is why isn't the Bitcoin privacy being fixed?

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A few new additions I picked up 😉

"Surprising number of Monero lovers on #Nostr. It’s the only altcoin that I consider has a community of actual cypherpunks with similarly aligned values as bitcoin." -Guy Swann

"I have an issue when Bitcoiners get so closed-minded and says Moneros a shitcoin. No it's not. There's some brilliant people there and there's a lot to learn...I'm a fan of Monero." -Nicholas Gregory of Mercury Layer

"Cashu isn't an alternative to Monero. Monero is cool." -Calle

This time last year, the ratio for BTC:ETH:XMR:ZEC donations via donate page addresses are around 40:20:20:1. We received more donations via Monero than Bitcoin and nearly all of the ETH came from a single, gigantic donation enough to hire a full time developer. Outside of Lightning (not official) then Monero is the only consistent, reliable flow of small crypto donations. ETH gets some as well but not as much.

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