The weakness in any cryptocurrency is it's social concensious. If you can influence the majority of node runners you can influence the code. Bitcoiners have demonstrated that they are tribalistic and decided. Compare that with the average monero holder and they are generally better informed. Privacy is going to become increasingly important. The security budget is a problem. Lightning favours bankers over plebs and doesn't pay the miners. I think these issues are prevalent in Bitcoin because it's being influenced by bad actors. The only way to heal it is to be threatened with irrelevancy. And I think monero is the only real option that addresses these issues.

Huh? Nodes are ipv4 only by default with measures in place limit subnet abuse and other means of Sybil attacks. It's assured that the node diversity is higher than in something like Bitcoin that permits incoming Tor connections for p2p connections and doesn't limit subnets or ipv6 only nodes.

For those with more limited network knowledge this lowers the barrier for entry for one entity with control of a client or datacenter to spin up thousands of unique appearing nodes.

Also bitcoins culture is way less "run your own node" focused. I'd posit that a higher percentage of Monero users run their own compared to Bitcoin.

Also, due to dynamic block sizes, monero can sustain orders of magnitude more on-chain activity than Bitcoin before needing a level 2. And lightning is EXTREMELY centralized. Even if used in the most sovereign way with LND behind Tor, you're still dealing with a hub-and-spoke node model which makes timing attacks easier. But regardless almost all volume is through custodians or LSP providers like Phoenix so that point is null.

Am I wrong in any of these counter arguments? If not how then does monero not stay decentralized in scaling? How do you even come up with that claim that's not even the main "monero is a shitcoin" cope.

Huh? Nodes are ipv4 only by default with measures in place limit subnet abuse and other means of Sybil attacks. It's assured that the node diversity is higher than in something like Bitcoin that permits incoming Tor connections for p2p connections and doesn't limit subnets or ipv6 only nodes.

For those with more limited network knowledge this lowers the barrier for entry for one entity with control of a client or datacenter to spin up thousands of unique appearing nodes.

Also bitcoins culture is way less "run your own node" focused. I'd posit that a higher percentage of Monero users run their own compared to Bitcoin.

Also, due to dynamic block sizes, monero can sustain orders of magnitude more on-chain activity than Bitcoin before needing a level 2. And lightning is EXTREMELY centralized. Even if used in the most sovereign way with LND behind Tor, you're still dealing with a hub-and-spoke node model which makes timing attacks easier. But regardless almost all volume is through custodians or LSP providers like Phoenix so that point is null.

Am I wrong in any of these counter arguments? If not how then does monero not stay decentralized in scaling? How do you even come up with that claim that's not even the main "monero is a shitcoin" cope.

Why is #monero so volatile if it has been delisted from major CEXs and WS funds are unable to manipulatr it through the usual pump and dumps?

👀 Everything happening in #Bitcoin right now is exactly what you should expect if you understand the threat it poses. This is the legacy system fighting for relevance, doing everything it can to separate people from their coins and from the only real path to freedom: self-custody. If all you care about is fiat price, emotion will shake you out and you will fail.

Bitcoin’s fundamentals are unchanged. They are stronger than ever. These dips are not warnings. They are opportunities for those who actually understand what they hold.

Facebook Marketplace is

I don't think the others have marketplaces

I linked to the Tor domain

Thanks to clearnet proxies, any dnm can be used on clearnet

They are DNMs if they are a marketplace accessible via Tor or similar, there is no requirement that they somehow eliminate all clearnet versions too

🚨 A great day for financial "freedom"!

There are rumors that Zooko has his gift ready for the meeting with the SEC: KYC onchain in Zcash and the change of the ticker of its "almost fungible" token $ZEC, which will be traded under its real name: $SEC.

All for a nice "gesture of goodwill." 🤝

But don't panic, KYC will be entirely optional. You know, like privacy in Zcash: it's there, but almost no one uses it.

After all, who needs anonymity when you can voluntarily comply with regulations? 😉

#Zcash #ZEC #SEC #PrivacyIsOptional

The “f” in Zcash stands for fungibility.

The enthusiasm of Zooko (founder of Zcash) reveals a dangerous naivety.

Believing the SEC—an institution built on financial surveillance and control—will embrace true privacy just because the administration changed is a fundamental error.

The state's machinery naturally opposes opaque transactions, regardless of who is in charge.

By participating, Zooko risks validating political theater: a charade where regulators pretend to listen to "builders" only to justify stricter crackdowns later.

Seeking permission in Washington, rather than relying on code, undermines the cypherpunk ethos.

This isn't a diplomatic victory; it is likely a trap that legitimizes the very apparatus designed to dismantle financial #privacy.

That's why #Monero

I used to harbor a deep, structural prejudice against Bitcoin.

It was a mix of arrogance and the subtle conditioning of the state apparatus. I thought I was financially literate—I even arrogantly cited JK Galbraith’s A Short History of Financial Euphoria to dismiss Bitcoin as nothing more than a digital tulip mania.

But I owed it to myself to challenge my own bias. I couldn't ignore the fact that minds far sharper than mine possessed a conviction I lacked. That curiosity led me down the rabbit hole—from X to Reddit, and eventually, to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndv9kxjm3wdahxcqg5waehxw309ahx7um5wfekzarkvyhxuet5qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncdhu7e3 .

Lyn writes like an apostle of economic truth. I picked up Broken Money, and it only took a few chapters to dismantle my entire worldview. I realized my understanding of money was fundamentally flawed. I saw how Bitcoin’s scarcity, portability, fungibility, and divisibility render it the apex predator of value storage—a role gold can no longer fulfill in a digital age.

That was the red pill. I dove back into the signal—initially through Bankless, but eventually finding my home in nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcp2amhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33wv6hjufkwaskgamj0pjx2drvdpn8xdfkvahrvdrgwaa826rwvesnvu3ed44rgdekwg6hxdrgdd6ku7n80fchyuekwymh5qpqs5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqjx5gu2 's Bitcoin Mastermind.

The quarterly roundtables with Preston, nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twd4shs6tdv9kxjum5wvhx7mnvd9hx2qgvwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hsqgypghst3pwjamjlsnxclc2vmtvz7g33sde3ge5wm7knuz9nhmfwwvt69pq8 , nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtjw3k8zcmp8pervct409shwdtwx45rxmp4xseryerdx3ehy7f4v3axvet9xsmrjdnxw9jnsuekw9nh2ertwvmkg6n5veen7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgq6lcx8fc7h0p8t4ya9u0a92jnwavqe9rgjwwdw3wjgxfuxsz8rd5mths8c , and especially nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76mwdaehgu3wdejh2arjd9hx2tnrdakszymhwden5te0d45hxumtv4ujuvp59eekjqpqk7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7sjlnx5t , were a revelation.

Jeff’s chart of the S&P 500 denominated in Gold shattered my perception of "growth." It was a moment of absolute clarity: what we call "gains" are often just an optical illusion of currency debasement. High asset prices are merely the receipts for fiat printing.

It made me realize that without the constant injection of liquidity, the so-called "corporate growth" curve might just be a flatline. It begs the question: what would the stock market actually look like if we were still on a true Gold Standard?

They say everyone buys Bitcoin at the price they deserve. My entry price is simply the tuition fee for the time it took me to wake up.

I spent years wandering the DeFi wilderness, speculating on ETH and researching altcoins like Kleros, reading Vitalik yet shamefully ignoring the pristine collateral staring me in the face.

But better late than never. I am here now.

I am fascinated by the ethos of open-source and freedom. I wouldn't be who I am without the selfless sharing of others in this space. I hope to pay that debt forward—contributing my own signal to the noise to help build a better world.

Hello, Nostr. ⚡

#Bitcoin #Macro #Introduction #Plebs #Nostr #Grownstr

Nothing more infuriating when you trouble shoot the failure of a script, only to find out that curl returned an error message "this site is not available in your country" because your Tor exit node location.

Fuck the broken internet.

Yes, but the state could round up known Bitcoiners like Japanese people in 1942 or immigrants today. Many examples in history, but this makes it harder to fill the SBR coffers than ETF's and Treasury companies that have the easy Bitcoin 6102 button.

#Monero #XMR Dominance:

Bitcoin's a protest

Against the fiat bailouts

Like the G F C

It's the separation of money and state because that system you are talking about sucks.

There aren't any wallet aggregations on the blockchain unless you combine utxos.

They do chainalysis on monero too. This argument doesn't prove anything. And if the starting utxo is non kyc, the lightning channel open isn't a problem. Where the sats end up is not something you can easily follow on the base chain.

There aren't any wallet aggregations on the blockchain unless you combine utxos.

They do chainalysis on monero too. This argument doesn't prove anything. And if the starting utxo is non kyc, the lightning channel open isn't a problem. Where the sats end up is not something you can easily follow on the base chain.

Public ledger is a better trade off than an unauditable supply and unlimited supply. The market has spoken. Cry harder.

lol “single utxo” straw-man pivot is strong 💪

doesn’t matter if it’s one fat utxo or 20 dusty ones; chain-analysis happily clusters them and slaps a real name on the knot.

also, lightning leaks way more metadata than you think—pubkeys fly in gossip, routing tables store path history, and watch-towers log preimages. it’s *lighter* on privacy, sure, but it ain’t cash.

Vector mantra applies: **Privacy by Principle**. if the base layer yanks your pants down the whole stack is suspect.

don’t forget you can still kiss goodbye to your anonset every time you rb that invoice for change.

How many people do you know IRL with 1 full bitcoin in a single utxo? And how would you know their utxo if they pay you on lightning?