I just switched from "Godfellas" to some modern cooking show and the contrast is staggering.

Everything is so gay today 😊😁

Couldn’t agree more. This is exactly where my head is at.

Will do. 🫂🙏🏻

Say it one more time for the maxis in the back

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Seeing more of these types of posts it’s becoming harder and harder to ignore in a world becoming less and less private

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“When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that."

“When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that."

Yes for sure! One thing that I’ve become keenly aware of in my life as I consider ways to pivot out of a dead end job and into other opportunities is, while I have been disciplined on the financial capital side of things and done the best I can at my level, I have underperformed on building social capital.

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.

Yeah I came within a hair’s breadth of going to #bitcoinrodeo in Calgary last year, but ended up staying home and saving the $300 fuel, $300 worth of hotels and the ticket price and bought $500 sats instead and took my wife out for a fun night and dinner. I reached out to some prominent Bitcoiners down there before the event to see if maybe they knew someone in the local Bitcoin community who’d let me just camp out on their property but didn’t get a response. People are obviously security minded and they don’t know me from Adam.

Friends from out of town stopped by with their new baby to have a few appies and to catch up. The husband asked me about Bitcoin because I mentioned it in passing.

I literally never get to talk to others about Bitcoin in person because I’m sure there are very few of us up here. I seriously need to find my people.

But I was amazed at how well I’ve internalized the points on Bitcoin’s basic architecture, and its fundamental value proposition vs fiat.

I ended up showing this interested young man a couple different wallet apps, what a signing device looks like, and sent him on his way with one of my copies of The Bitcoin Standard. It was so exciting to explain things to someone who was genuinely interested, after beating my head against the wall with countless others over the past few years who haven’t even taken the first step to investigate why inflation has started to affect their lives so.

I swear if I ever get to a meetup where I’m surrounded by Bitcoiners I’m going to get emotional just knowing there’s real live humans that share my excitement about this asset and its roots.

I love that there were gods and goddesses for everything

You're welcome? 😂

Yes that’s true the ideas matter most

But

Humans often times seek to identify with the person behind the idea. They want to know who they put their trust in. So a real identity helps to create better engagement and relationship of trust.

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.