New album “Beautiful Devastation” is on all major platforms now. Although I’d prefer you use a V4V protocol for those zaps!! Give me some feedback please.
https://video.nostr.build/442dbf7de5c25443870eed92f76e347b2ac814a70a0a5a7ed60816dad91b4ed1.mp4
Nice! Going to give the full track a listen.
I listened flat on my studio headphones, downloaded the video and listened again with my earbuds.
The mix is very bass heavy—it's overpowering and buries the vocals—especially on the chorus, which is why I assumed it wasn’t mastered.
I just listened again and it sounds way better through phone speakers. Like night and day, really.
It wasn't my intention to be a critic. It’s a great track and video. 🙏🏻💜
Love it. It'll be killer when mastered.
"Did you not know that the royal hunting grounds are always forbidden?"
— Clutch
Happy to say I never put a shoe on my head to verify my identity.
Joined #Nostr on Jan 24, 2023—the day after Snowden posted about it on X.
Yes, I meant that in the context of privacy. Monero has protocol-level privacy.
You’re in the PNW, right? I was living in Portland before I moved to Australia and back. Next time I’m passing through I’ll hit you up—would love to break homemade bread. What's your go-to?
Very nice. You can do some killer vegan stuff with this too!
Your mom was vibe coded.™
#IKITAO
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, pura vida — hope you’ve all been well ✨
https://video.nostr.build/f63fe65ff262680fd1766aededd98b1264213fe529234ff3d0d408023cdf2db6.mov
Love the loop. This post is art.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, pura vida — hope you’ve all been well ✨
https://video.nostr.build/f63fe65ff262680fd1766aededd98b1264213fe529234ff3d0d408023cdf2db6.mov
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, BW
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Evelyn!
Except it really doesn't. Lightning is nowhere near as private as Monero—Monero doesn't need a layer 2, and Ecash isn't Bitcoin and it's custodial.
"Bitcoin backed" != Bitcoin.
On lightning and privacy.
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#IKITAO #Moxie #Sphynx #Cat
There is no "woke," only awakening.
Good Lord I need a nap after fact checking and writing this response. Lol
Monero doesn't have a fixed cap. It has tail emission. 0.6 XMR per block, started May 2022. Creates about 1% inflation initially and trends toward zero over time. Keeps miners incentivized long-term without relying on fees alone.
Supply is predictable. We know exactly how many coins exist: roughly 18.44 million XMR plus 0.6 XMR every 2 minutes. Accounting for lost coins, probably deflationary in practice. That's scarcity.
On 51% attack resistance—yeah, attacks were attempted recently. August 2025 saw a 6-block reorg. September brought an 18-block reorg, the deepest in Monero's history. The selfish-mining attack peaked around 33% hashrate, not majority control. No double-spends executed, no funds stolen, but 118 transactions rolled back. Real stress test.
Monero's response was immediate. FCMP++ development accelerated. An alpha stressnet launched October 3, 2025.
FCMP++ moves from ring signatures with a ring size of 16 (15 decoys + 1 real) to full-chain membership proofs. Instead of proving your transaction came from one of 16 possible outputs, it proves it came from one of millions across the entire chain. Makes tracing effectively impossible.
Optimization competitions ran. 100 XMR bounty for helioselene, 250 XMR for ec-divisors. They achieved a 5x speedup in proof generation. Beta stressnet targeted Q1 2026.
Consensus hardening happened at the same time. "Share or Perish" fork-choice proposals are under active development. They’re designed to penalize delayed block broadcasts and kill the profitability of selfish mining. Additional finality layers and merge-mining concepts are being explored.
December 2025 status: hashrate at 6.74 GH/s, network stabilized, 17 active FCMP++ implementation issues with 4 closed, XMR up 94% year-over-year despite the attacks, privacy cryptography intact. Zero protocol compromises.
The network got tested. It responded with technical fixes, transparent crisis management, and fast timelines.
If you need untraceable transactions at scale—nothing else does what Monero does.
They're related, but distinct.
Permissionlessness = anyone can participate without approval
Privacy = what you can see is hidden by design
Decentralization = no one controls consensus or can override independent verification
Monero has all three. Bitcoin has permissionlessness and decentralization, but not privacy baked in at the protocol level.
The confusion comes from treating lack of visibility as lack of decentralization. Those aren't the same thing.
Monero has thousands of nodes running globally—and that's just the ones running clearnet. Many more run behind Tor/I2P by design.