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#Monero using #libertarian who loves computer networking, distributed systems, privacy tech, and testing beta software. I may not be a pro, but I can file a mean bug report. Donate Monero (XMR): https://kuno.anne.media/fundraiser/zzn3/ Annual Expenses: 59 XMR 42WimCbGoy5SVZfkr5YdwtAg9jvpxFfNXfBjM2CJAUZC9JNAKZ34hF6a35HJNXWyw1ctxhSKp4MjfgR3uT8Eneq4GCwtqTs https://smp15.simplex.im/a#P99yLk0Wm9o1qks_M4uuf5cTqz8mua9QhyaByz2gIR8

When you hold #Monero for an extended time, you are making a bet on increasing human freedom in the future.

Yep, I got the same one. I figured it was a scam, so I ignored it.

Fair enough, although Monero adoption is growing pretty rapidly. So that won't be the case forever.

But why go through all that when you could just use Monero and get privacy right away and not have to worry about anything?

In that case, so is gold. Because gold actually has higher inflation than Monero.

Sir Crypto Tips is now mentioning #Monero rather frequently in his videos. This is just the most recent example. https://odysee.com/@Crypto-Tips:b/you-won%E2%80%99t-believe-how-much-they-want:d

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Yeah, a lot of people are being giant babies crying for centralized website services even when they would hurt the people running them just for a little convenience.

almost exact same. i started playing on Ubuntu 10.10 and now run linux on all my machines with a rarely booted vm for anything i absolutely cant do which is rarely ever used

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Yeah I thought so too. I'm big on composability, and I've never been keen on every social type client needing it's own image viewer, media player built in, I like to click something and have it open in it's own thing, I already have a dedicated media player on my machine. And I'm big on leveraging existing tools to solve problems. I'm also not big on web apps, I loathe them.

Actually I was brainstorming with nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 and came up with the idea trying to help him solve a problem and loved the idea so much I started working on it. I haven't talked much about it with anyone outside of that and I wanted to have it done a few months ago, but I've got the software right now to a point where it's doing all the nostr stuff, I've got the options and command line arguments specced out and partially implemented, now I just have to interface with a torrent daemon and do the torrent stuff, creating torrents, seeding, connecting to remote daemons over RPC, publishing to trackers and DHT, that whole part. Once that's done and it is working I'm gonna publish it and begin shilling it here.

I will be looking forward to it.

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Yep, any torrent streaming application will do. Popcorntime works on android, but it comes with a pirate movie catalog built in. I might make a bounty for a fork of it that just plays links and has no catalog, I don't know yet. What would be best is of course a utility tthat opens the stream in your media player of choice, popcorntime has a built in media player, but it would work. I don't know if you've ever used Scrambled Exif, it's an application that strips exif data from images before sharing them, no UI, just share to it and then it opens the share dialog again, something that worked like that that just had a dialog open up asking which media player to stream to. I'm not an android developer.

For desktop there's peerflix, there's also a popcorntime client that doesn't have the catalog anymore as that's fetched remotely but it can still stream magnet links just fine.

What happens to the video... Same thing that happens if a host doesn't want to host anymore. Ultimately hosting costs money. "Free" hosts make their money in other ways. They censor, they delete old content. I would think a person who has a personal interest in their content being available would be more adamant about ensuring that, especially since all it takes is a seedbox. You can rent seedboxes if you want to pay for hosting. The goal isn't to ensure perpetual availability, as that is impossible. The goal is to make it easy for content creators to host and share videos without complex setups, and with nostr that includes a route to monetization which is spectacular, it's a big problem with every other approach to self hosting video content.

Oh, okay. I was not aware that you could rent seed boxes. So that's news to me. I think it's a really great idea actually, especially with tipping through zaps and Monero. That's a beautiful idea.

I like it. You definitely need some sort of player application available on the F-Droid store though. Either that or maybe get clients such as Primal to integrate the ability to download torrent files to play the videos. I guess my biggest question would be what happens to the video if the creator decides they don't want to host it anymore. Because videos seem like one of those things that you watch one time and you would not continue seeding.

big retailers used to offer layaway and its a big thing during downturns in the economy. In fact, I think the concept was invented in the Great Depression and was used a lot again during 2008. A lot of people do not have financial self-control. So if they have a retailer holding the money for the product for them, then they will not spend it on something else, which they might otherwise do.