Wait, so people are now receiving ecash from mints they don't operate or trust?
That's mildly insane.
You're right on the protocol name, it slipped my mind. I stand corrected.
I was also unable to find source code for the alpha release of the app. The backend source code is available though.
That's strange.
Do you know if there are plans to release the frontend app source?
So is Blockstream.
What of it?
The Fedi protocol is open, the Fedi software is open-source.
Hilarious indeed. You mean like the darknet markets, and silent.link / shopinbit sales?
As it stands now, the market has chosen: Bitcoin for SoV, Monero for digital cash.
Only an idealogue can argue that Bitcoin, with its poor onchain privacy and high fees, beats #monero at $0.01/tx with nearly perfect privacy+anonymity.
I'm more than happy seeing either one improve at either role and GIVE PEOPLE CHOICES, because to me Bitcoin is neither religion nor football club.
Don't be an idealogue. Ideologies make people blind to the truth, and being blind to the truth makes one ignorant.
It is sad that EU regulators and public opinion are listening to #Greenpeace. This should be exposed properly.
If you are a #Bitcoin miner, don’t abandon this propaganda. Help us, end-users and human rights activists to defend bitcoin on the ongoing attack on PoW in the #EU.
One of the goals of the EU bodies, particularly the European Central Bank (#ECB), for such an approach is to use “a policy tool that disincentivises investing in such assets from the outset and prevents the build-up of transition risk through crypto-assets in the banking system” until 2025.
As end-users of Bitcoin for fundraising and payment instruments, Open Dialogue Foundation concerns that such a policy would directly affect both us and the Bitcoin industry, which services we and other activists use. Especially because the European Commission wants to “collaborate internationally with different standardisation bodies to develop the energy-efficiency label” for PoW:
“States shall implement targeted and proportionate measures to lower, and must be ready to stop, the electricity consumption of crypto-asset miners, in line with the proposed Council Regulation on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices.”
We need to do educational advocacy - over 200 face to face meetings with MPs and regulators so they can learn and ask questions from bitcoin miners they never ask in public. Just as we did thanks to nostr:npub1kp7jzme0qs3wcqjjmkq6v5fm359sclhc22glhadgtmerlr0h37nsn8487l nostr:npub1hyqrsvl6hle8r5rc9cpshesm0mpcee75tgde4p5lhke5h83dyqqqdwk7cp and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m last years with #MiCA and #AML Regulations.
We need to be able to defend our rights to use Bitcoin in a legal way. So far it seems that the fight in the EU for Bitcoin is more important for activists than for bitcoiners, because everyone is excited about Bitcoin ETFs in the US, or believes that the market will solve the problem in the EU/move to other jurisdictions, or just doesn't believe in engaging with politicians to educate them. 😔
And I understand and respect all of that arguments, but we as human rights defenders have no place to move and we operate there, in the EU. 🙏
We need your support.
Now, before it is too late. 
I don't know how you still have the patience to deal with the neverending stream of bullshit from those bureaucrats who think it's their God-given right to tell everyone else how to live, but I am happy that you do.
Very few of us have the patience to deal with that level of ignorance and deceit.
But you are right, if their ignorance goes unchallenged, then more and more bullshit will keep coming, and they won't be happy until the innovation is neatly locked away and declawed in a box they completely control.
Such lack of imagination.
I am pragmatic. For me it's just tools, not a football club or a religion.
Bitcoin works better for savings, Monero works better as private anonymous digital cash, Bitcoin Lightning to a lesser extent and with smaller amounts works very well too (and UI tends to be prettier), except for the aforementioned liquidity bootstrapping issues.
We've got all these tools. In the end, more options more freedom.
I'm glad for #bitcoin and I'm glad for #monero - having both makes my life better & freer in the financial realm.
This is how I see it as well.
I've used Phoenix for years and have got a channel with capacity for thousands of USD in sats.
Not true for new friends and acquaintances I onboard.
With the fees as they are in BTC now, and with zero inbound liquidity in their cases, using Phoenix is suicidal.
Instead, I onboard them to #monero and recommend that after they have about $500 in it (after a period of DCA), they convert it to Bitcoin cold storage.
It's practical and seems to work well.
Are at-rest profiles (without rebooting, after "end session") safe from this attack?
Can you provide more details? And can this be mitigated w/o auto-reboot?
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We call it climate change now, then it's always true.
I don't subscribe to the "no second best" nonsense, the cultism of some people (and almost all of the maxis) blinds them to some pretty obvious things.
It's no coincidence people naturally resort to the word cultist to describe such characters, it has to do with dogma. They are full of it, and are blind to the facts as a result.
All the tribalism is really unnecessary. Monero does onchain privacy much better than Bitcoin, and it's a lot cheaper too.
Therefore for use as digital cash, Monero is better suited.
I still wouldn't save large amounts in Monero, the same way I wouldn't use Bitcoin onchain other than for savings, because of the atrocious privacy it offers.
I'm in this for the freedom (number go up is nice too of course), and further normalizing the mass-surveillance of every payment of every person is not the way forward.
#monero is just another tool. Use it (always-on privacy+anonymity) or lose it (let the State criminalize financial privacy even further).
Can't agree with this, for most people the volatility scares and stresses them.
And newbies have not yet read and understood enough to understand scarcity and become master hodlers.
What you're missing is that it's not like this in many/most? places outside the US.
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