is this a fucking prank or something? is this a prank? look at this shit.
bitcoin in 2014:
download wallet, write funny words, paste address
bitcoin in 2024:
pay a monthly subscription to alby hub to receive pasteable addresses and we'll stay online for you 24/7 because someone has to watch them all the time and we let you buy payment channels from our liquidity partners and you still have to use bitcoin mainnet at random times and maybe you'll get completely assraped by fees and you can DIY it but you have to be a computer genius and everything besides this system is a scam and I have sex with my dog
monero, rollups, sidechains in 2024:
download wallet, write funny words, paste address
you are completely delusional if you think that computer programs are enough to defeat totalitarianism. as if all the people who were ripped out of their homes and sent to labor camps in china and russia would have been spared if only they had invested their time into an autistic radio hobby.
some of this is just hoppe complaining that milei is not doing things that a president of a constitutional republic cannot actually do. milei doesn't have a way to unilaterally close the central bank or unplug the money printer. if he somehow became powerful enough to do this, it would not be possible to also decentralize power.
notice the picture with the jew star on it does not contain the pleroma logo, even though pleroma is one of the most popular implementations in use. the mastodon people pretend that everyone who is using pleroma is a reprobate. some mastodon instances are configured to automatically defederate from any instance that happens to run pleroma. they have even published fediverse clients for smartphones which are designed to malfunction when the user tries to sign into an instance of pleroma. some of these little commie freaks admit that pleroma happens to be better software than mastodon, but they are so afraid of being unpersoned for using it that they created a pointless fork called akkoma which they use instead.
it's splintered into neighborhoods that barely overlap. the people who call the whole thing mastodon are in one neighborhood with heavy-handed censorship, because that's the kind of experience that they want. the people in the other neighborhood don't call it mastodon and none of their instances run the mastodon software. they basically only block child porn and spam.
it's called the fediverse. stop calling the whole thing mastodon. I am only here at all because the most racist woman alive from the fediverse wouldn't shut up about this place
people are suggesting for DNMs with millions in volume to do their business inside ruggabe ecash mints, and that ecash mints will eclipse monero completely. please stop pretending this advocacy is confined to pocket change. and we both know the whole point of L2 scaling is to inherit security from L1 and execute transactions somewhere else. you toss the security from L1 into the garbage bin the moment you put one toe into an ecash mint. the developers are retarded and need to go back and come up with something better.
if you're really able to believe such a ridiculous idea than what use is proof of work at all?
in what way does forcing people into custodians help to achieve the progress you refer to?
my oldest bitcoin keys are from 2012. I can't be a bitcoin maxi after seeing what people thought bitcoin was supposed to be and comparing it to what bitcoin is today. it's got a high market cap at the cost of being over-reliant on custodians and financial institutions, and it became useless for any form of electronic commerce that the state disapproves of.
funny story about that. so I was running apathy.tv movie streams for a small community on the fediverse. one of the users approached me and asked if she could have an account so that she could begin running movie streams for her friends on the fediverse just like what I was doing. I told her that I wasn't ready to be responsible for other people.
fast forward a couple years. I witnessed her running a movie stream from inside a website that was primarily dedicated to lolicon drawing tutorials. it turned out that all the attendees for her movie streams are her pedophile friends I didn't know about. if I had let her use apathy.tv, it would have started attracting pedophiles. then who knows what could have happened.
bitcoin maxis use religious exclusivism. in order for BTC to be good, XMR has to be bad. it is impossible for BTC to be good if XMR is good. so XMR is bad.
bitcoin maxis don't actually use bitcoin, they use IOUs representing someone else's bitcoin
what's with all these nerds speaking portuguese on here
under My library there is a button called My syncrhonizations
I don't have open signups. you have to go find an instance with open signups or set one up yourself. I used yunohost to set up peertube. it was very easy.
I run a peertube instance on apathy.tv
I just got around to trying the bisq2 beta. it is in the AUR. bisq2 added a mode that is closer to localbitcoins, where everything relies on trust and reputation and there is no requirement for a security deposit. but the number of offers where the seller has any reputation is very small at the moment and I am afraid to take the offers. this is also the only method that is part of bisq2 and no other methods are working right now. you'd have to buy bitcoin on bisq2 and then go through something else to get monero if you want to start from nothing. bisq2 wants to add back monero support but they pushed it to the very end of their roadmap. a haveno2 could fork bisq2 and make monero a first class citizen.