Sometimes stories about WWII England catch my interest. I just finished one by Shirley Dickson called "The Lost Children" which tells the story of a twin brother and sister who have to leave home after their home is bombed and kills their grandmother. Their mother sends them to the countryside while she works in a munitions factory where she is killed during an explosion.
I actually don't think libertarians are embracing Bitcoin anymore. I think that libertarians used to embrace Bitcoin, but I think it has been corrupted, and most libertarians have seen that and moved on to Monero.
There is no team behind Monero that can just change the rules at will. It takes an effort of the community, just like it does in Bitcoin, in order to change the rules, so I highly doubt that it would occur.
Hard forks do happen in Monero, but that's only after extreme community consensus and discussion has occurred.
The reason for this is that the Monero community knows that software is an ever-evolving thing and sometimes needs maintenance that is not backwards compatible.
Anytime a hard fork does come, the community is notified well in advance. For example, there's going to be a hard fork in probably the next six months to one year, but we've known that it was going to occur for something like two or three years at this point.
Oh very cool. Welcome to the mesh
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
The EU is currently developing a whitelabel app to perform privacy-preserving (at least in theory) age verification to be adopted and personalized in the coming months by member states. The app is open source and available here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui.
Problem is, the app is planning to include remote attestation feature to verify the integrity of the app: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui?tab=readme-ov-file#disclaimer. This is supposed to provide assurance to the age verification service that the app being used is authentic and running on a genuine operating system. Genuine in the case of Android means:
• The operating system was licensed by Google
• The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a Google account)
• Device security checks have passed
While there is value to verify device security, this strongly ties the app to many Google properties and services, because those checks won't pass on an aftermarket Android OS, even those which increase security significantly like GrapheneOS, because the app plans to use Google "Play Integrity", which only allows Google licensed systems instead of the standard Android attestation feature to verify systems.
This also means that even though you can compile the app, you won't be able to use it, because it won't come from the Play Store and thus the age verification service will reject it.
The issue has been raised here https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10 but no response from team members as of now.
In short: You can only be a full citizen of the EU if you accept the ToS from Google.
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In around 65 years, for example, the inflation rate of Monero will be 0.525%/yr. At that time there will be 30 million Monero in existence, up from a current supply of 18.6 million.
Sending Bitcoin with no internet from Jack Dorsey's new app 'Bitchat' https://blossom.primal.net/8f4a06262564a630a9d695e67bfe8757693f97d11014cb53f6dc2e4fe413ba55.mp4
We'll be great when we can do this with #Monero. Until then, it's less useful than it could be.
If you have unlimited time to live, technically, yes, you're right.
However, if you don't have unlimited time to live, then the answer to that is no.
Also the tail emission replaces lost coins which actually keeps the supply stable. Similar to how gold that's mined today replaces some gold that sank on ships that have never been found, etc. It's still completely and algorithmically predictable supply. You know how much will exist and when it will exist.
Also, since the tail emission is fixed, it always trends twoard zero even if it never hits zero.
I'd be curious why you're using short turbo. I know it's legal in the United States to use short turbo, but not all across the world. So why not short fast? Since it's accepted everywhere.
I refused to use AI up until incredibly recently because of the fact that open source models weren't ubiquitous.
I remember hearing about chat GPT in 2022 or 23 and was like, nope, I'm not using that shit because it's not open source. But now that AI is open source, I'm perfectly happy to use it.
To my mailbox from half way around the world. #Monero
Not on fdroid, cant use
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Dr. Seldon had predicted many things, but not this: New Geneva.
As he looked out from the terrace of his laboratory at the artificial atoll of New Geneva — an experimental island that had emerged in the North Pacific in international waters, over 200 nautical miles from any national shore, where two hundred families lived under the first fully autonomous government in human history — he wondered whether history itself could have imagined the variables of a system where..
Read my new short story:
*[Episode 1] as public story
https://liberlion.medium.com/new-geneva-the-genesis-of-tokenized-microsocieties-7c23d50c93b1
It's really hilarious that we were just discussing this very problem on Monerotopia of having to create an account in different places in order to view content instead of just being asked to send a couple of picos your way.
If you don't already know how to do it, I suggest plugging it into the USB on your computer and plugging the charge cable into the device and then just rock it back and forth twice while pressing and holding the button on the device.
It just needs two contacts within quick succession. Like, click, click.
I recently discovered nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqexv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csna6fpr
It reminds me of the kind of decentralization Nostr has but for a private chat client.
What other decentralized apps like these should I be looking at?
Meshtastic
I decided to do an experiment, so I charged it back up to 100 and turned on RX Boosted Gain again. And to 5%, I got 2 days and 15 hours.
#meshtastic
So with it turned off, I got an extra 16 hours of battery life to the same power level.
I use their annual plan, so if they don't have Monero support by this time next year, I probably will be leaving them.
Which is why Monero is the only crypto I use.
nostr:nprofile1qqsrgyzdaheuckfksqkgxz9r6qys72zh6j46f69hyzkv4a4j4vzfj6gprkucd #Monero when? Just had to pay with a Monero to #Bitcoin swap.
Well, that's a good start, at least.
Some people say that a sound money standard will cause the economy to collapse because people won't spend money.
Those people are fucking morons.
Do you buy a phone? If the answer is yes, why? You know that next year's model will be better. So why not wait until next year?
Do you buy food? If not, why? Food will be cheaper next month than it is currently.
Do you go to the emergency room? Why? That emergency room visit would be cheaper next year.
A sound money standard does not prevent people from spending money. It makes people more intentional about what they spend their money on.
#Monero
I don't know much about reticulum, but yes, with Meshtastic, the identity is tied to the device. So each person would need their own device.
God, yes please. Compiling it from source is a fucking pain in the ass.
I took a look at mesh core, found out the app was not open source, and immediately ditched it. If it were open source, I would be more interested. I haven't tried other L.O.R.A. protocols such as reticulum though.
If you live in a metro area there's a good chance there's going to be other nodes that you will be able to connect with. If you live in a rural area that might be more difficult and you might need to get a solar node and put it up on like a 30-foot flagpole or something just to increase your range a bit. Height is might after all. A 30-foot flagpole is going to get you quite a bit farther than a node in your window and a 250-foot tower is going to get you much farther than a 30-foot node.
It's a work in progress, but yes. The test net has an app.
Yes, they are quite durable. They don't like wallets that fold in half very well because it kind of pushes the gold away from the middle and you get like this little line, but they make a specific wallet for goldbacks. But other than that, they are totally durable. I've seen all kinds of damage be done to them and it doesn't really hurt.
I've seen people run them through the wash, ball them up into little paper balls, etc. And they just apply a heat gun to them and they smooth right out, mostly. Still totally usable.
The fact that the software interface to access it is not open source is an absolute deal breaker for me. If somebody develops an open source app, I'd be glad to use it. But until such point, I will not touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Until then I will stick to only meshtastic.
To me, if it's not open source, it's not worth using.
Not sure, but they said they would do it if it got a thousand signatures. So damn it, it's worth at least trying.
Might be better to run something like that is an NVIS. That way your main coverage area would be several hundred miles out, but it would be more predictable.
Because otherwise you are relaying traffic for nodes who will likely never be able to see each other again. Or not for a very long time at least.
The next time you buy an item that you want to buy or need to buy, I want you to buy one or whatever for yourself. And then I want you to offer that exact same item for sale on #XMRBazaar, priced in #Monero.
You needed a new oil filter for your 2005 Honda CR-V. Well then, there should be an oil filter for a 2005 Honda CR-V, priced in Monero on XMRBazaar. And you should be the one selling it.
Very nice, but you may be losing a little bit of vertical coverage due to the 6 DBI gain. A 3 DBI gain is a bit better at receiving from below the plane of the antenna or above the plane of the antenna.
I love the tagline. The internet is optional. Freedom is not. L-O-R-A based #Monero and #Bitcoin transaction relay.
It's always a good time to be buying. I fiat cost average every single month.
In-fucking-credible speech by Ross to finish off #bitcoin2025
You want fiat gains.
I want to change the world
We are not the same.
#Monero