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Hedy Lamarr, a famous Hollywood actress and an inventor who co-invented a technique called frequency hopping, which is the basis of modern technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

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Usually, it is an allusion to people buying bitcoin solely in order to get profit. Sort of when a measure becomes a target, and not a tool for achieving something novel.

Number Go Up.

But how are the transactions anonymous then?

Zeus (self-custody, privacy), Phoenix (self-custody), Liquid (federated, but high privacy), Ecash (privacy), Robosats (on the way to self-custody, federated), Bisq (self-custody), and so on and so forth.

I think that’s normal. A more progressive minority pushes the whole field forward. Only commies live in a world where everyone is equal and equally stupid.

The questions I would ask myself are: Is this bad for bitcoin? I don’t think it cares. Same way the internet doesn’t care about Google. Can the ETF/NGU people manipulate bitcoin price? Yes, either by a small percentage or for a short period of time. Long-term it’s impossible. Can they control it? No, it’s a game of three: miners, users, node runners. Is it bad that some people want only NGU? No, it’s probably the best way for a random normie to get orange pilled.

Sorry, I am a monero noob, just being curious. But this is what’s written on their homepage too…

My understanding was that, like in Liquid, Monero transactions are encrypted. Of course you know how much monero you have mined yourself or sent/received in total, but the blockchain consisting of fully encrypted transactions, while being fully anonymous, is not verifiable in terms of total supply.

What am I missing?

But the fact that we‘re discussing this here on nostr, all the cool meetups, more institutions adopting bitcoin, more normies hearing from presidential candidates about self-custody - all this suggests people want more than NGU.

And if they wanted only NGU, one could also see it as people understanding how fast their fiat savings are devalued and switching to bitcoin. I understand there are a lot of crypto degens and other traders bullshit, but (a) they have always been there and (b) they are a side-effect of the transition phase we’re living in.

I used to run a monero node. I always thought the monero blockchain was encrypted, so every transaction is confidential and there‘s no way to verify the total number of monero UTXOs 🤔

Can I verify the total supply of monero without trusting anybody?

Hope it’s not a bug or something 😅

I‘d say the trend started much earlier (China is preparing for something? 🤔). But true, Feb 2022 accelerated it considerably.

Having the dream to have at least some sort of home is normal - people can’t be blamed for this. The modern banking system forces them to take loans to pay artificially overpriced houses/apartments. In fact, house prices expressed in bitcoin have been going down faster than they have been increasing when expressed in dollars. nostr:note1ejd9s42hyh6jfl5jdskg67tn6g7q9uj4vtlnpuyy2enzrzpgq4zs7cq6mv

Exquisite, sir! 🤌🧐🫡

You‘re right. I live in Germany and it’s an embarrassing example of our government‘s policy that has been pushed though for the last 10-15 years. I also don’t know how I would behave myself in a situation like that. But as a cop I would probably baton everyone down to the ground and only then see who’s the criminal. That’s not elegant, but probably effective.

Unfortunately, this happens in science too. Unfortunately, positive things produced by science are not emphasized enough or simply taken for granted. I don’t think that Tim Berners-Lee who was building the proto-internet at CERN wanted to create a cult or so. But many cults emerged because of his invention.