Thou art very wise 🤝

It’s true. We should all be freedom maxis as that’s the true currency of a thriving society, btc, monero, Nostr etc.. are tools for maintaining or defending our individual sovereignty. If a better tool shows up tomorrow, I am jumping On it

You can’t have freedom without privacy

vibes

i expect bitcoin to hit new all time highs in gold, silver, and dollars in 2026.

lets come back to this note next year.

stay humble and stack sats 🫡

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.

The two things are not related.

Signing a petition isnt going to do anything. The Brits signes in the millions and look at them! Lol

Legitimate point

The IRS wants to know our bitcoin addresses. Here are mine.

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So now that the files are finally coming out I guess it’s too much to hope that actual arrests will follow. Or are we still on the Epstein acted alone and didn’t have clients?

I wrote multiple times a year ago that privacy would continue to be suppressed regardless of administration.

It is.