And yet here i am. Undone.

I don't even do anything illegal or have much xmr, but the feeling of even a few dollars worth in #monero that you can do anything with permissionlessly is very unique. It has a taste. It taste sweet. It's different than the feeling a public ledger like bitcoin has.

You can order online, support a content creator or emergency relief, pay for a phone bill without having to trust custody wallets, fuck around with nodes, Give your details, name, date of birth, house address to a stranger or fill out a form for some random checkout cart online, no etherum slippage or gas bullshit, no orphan sats in a LN wallet, or channel opening and closing shite.

Just run monero, mine if you want to support the network, and use it when you need to. End of story.

It's so low, just going to normal would be a win. Switching to the dollar will do this. Unfortunately, this will not prove libertarianism or free market principals.

What will is if the country goes beyond what would be expected from sane government.

Based on her past tweets, Egyptians prefer USD. They are ambivalent about Bitcoinnand digital money, as is most of the muslim world.

From what i have seem, they misapply a rule against usery, to Bitcoin. They mistake the value rise for bitcoin to intetest, if they know about bitcoin, and are warry of non backed, or non gold anything, if not.

Is this running over tor ?

No thanks, i really don't care about zapping on nostr THAT much.

Imagine a 5m$ channel open.

To expand a little. Not only will nothing happen to Milei from the bankers and financialized capital, (so many think he will be assassinated) they will actually help him in private if not public.

The only danger to him is from layed off government workers with time on their hands smart enough to rouse and organize activist communist who just "don't get it", but to dumb/lazy to retrain for the market.

Lol no. Consider that he holds two mandates. 1. Close the Argentinian central bank.

2. Switch argentinina to the U.S dollar...which.....has a central bank (run by the same people......

People are dumb. Bitcoin only (and xmr).

LN has more in common with banks than it does Bitcoin.

Ah yes, self custody over three layers of trust and security weakness.

LNurl with the channel and fee schemes on these wallets is asking for trouble. WOS was/is successful because it allowed frictionless LNurl receive. Average users know what and how to use a URL, email address, copy paste.

Users don't want to fuck around with channels and fees. Wallet builders don't want to take the risks WOS did to be useable. The engineering circle jerk of LN continues.

Lightning is retarded.

How did this go nostr:npub1fl7pr0azlpgk469u034lsgn46dvwguz9g339p03dpetp9cs5pq5qxzeknp worth going to the hellsite ?

Anything you can't zero out, empty the wallet of, is a scam, including Ethereum. WOS has done a great thing for easy adoption by newbies though. It's more a condemnation to lightning and its supporters that their best shot at scaling has caused so much turmoil. Monero just works.

Bip300/ Drivechains is an elegant solution to a difficult problem.

Like Doctors using soap, many babies will die in the interim between adoption because of "Experts" going over and over old territory.

Alternative solutions will seek incomplete answers, like miasma, bad humors or demons, to explain the sickness.

Meanwhile, newbies get rugged, never to return. Security and time get siphoned off by pretender projects.

The marginalized and vulnerable live and die never knowing about the tool meant for them and all.

The arguments against it get worse and worse, like the violent war of a mad man with a spoon against a rocky mountain.

Craig Wright supporters, posting "supporting" documents, and arguing that he is Satoshi, remind me of Sedevancatist.

Same energy.

You can't zero out a WOS wallet. Much like ethereum some slippage remains. Behavior like that is scammy to me.

Great easy tool to onvoard people, especially low info/low tech people.

Just like you don't really understand money until you start learning about Bitcoin, you don't really understand the purpose of food until you've gone ancestral diet.

Hint: It's not for mouth taste feeling.

Read crypto economics by eric Voxkuil for an expanded treatment of this thought.