Do you have any evidence for this because I see much more activity on the blockchain and second layers than all of monero

So your opinion is that monero is better than bitcoin at converting to fiat?

not that you can't it's that the market for people willing to do these trades in btc/lightning is smaller. in BTC giftcards are covered. I have yet to see any listings for a proxy shopper in BTC. there are some people selling food for btc though not as many as on xmrbazaar. I have yet to see houses for sale in BTC i have seen one rental option. the main difference is that monero is private and your able to not worry about the tax implications or the downstream usage of the UTXO's. lightning you could say mitigates some of this but then your most likely relying on a custodial solution. the HODL culture is also antithetical to using BTC as money.

And you can’t do that with bitcoin?

The essential things like gas, rent, and food have to be converted to fiat first. Just like with Bitcoin. So why not just hold bitcoin? You can also pay for all these things with lightning non kyc. Tradeoff is less purchasing power. Math isn’t adding up.

ammo?

And doesn't the inability to prove that someone owns Monero make it superior to bitcoin on this ranking?

What’s the point of holding monero if you can’t really buy anything with it? You typically have to convert to fiat first so why not just convert the money that appreciates more?

You don’t ever truly own land or real estate. Eminent domain is a bitch.

Agree

GM ☀️

The Great Taking left a strong impression on me. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s a must.

The quick TLDR from the book is that all assets worldwide are legally considered liabilities for the custodians. And if/when the custodian fails, the customers (i.e. you) become the unsecured creditor. That means you are the last one to be made whole after the secured creditors get their money. And who are the secured creditors? The fed/central banks. They literally own all the custodial assets in the world.

I love bitcoin and I believe it will succeed. But I’d be lying if I said I never had any fears about something going wrong. A critical bug or centralization of mining could severely damage the bitcoin network. The odds of bitcoin failing are low but not 0. This has led me to question if I should diversify my assets. But why would someone want to become an unsecured creditor? Going all in on bitcoin seems less risky than being an unsecured creditor in this economic nightmare we are living in today.

They not only have on Monero related businesses and guests, but they even have other privacy coins. And cover generic cryptocurrency news, such as Odysee even having tipping in OTHER coins. Yet we have IN-APP Monero, and they refuse to cover us. How can any XMR entrepreneur succeed under such harsh censorship? They make it impossible to launch without VCs

Thanks God for Bitcoin so I don't have to care about politics.

If you're not running your own node and asking it about your own transactions, you've never used bitcoin.

You wouldn't use nostr by asking your friend that has it to post something everytime you want something posted - and that's just something trivial. Why are you doing it with your money, the most important thing of all.

Mullvad has money for times square billboards,

But copy-pasted Tor Browser.

They say "privacy is a right",

But "Mullvad Browser" requires permission to block Javascript.

Simplified Privacy literally has no bank accounts or VCs. Yet we created a unique isolated networking stack, filesystem, and graphical display cage, with 4 browsers, each with a new canvas approach, and 6 VPN locations.

Dude, the fact our thing even exists with such a pure cypherpunk model, should make even the Virgin Mary say "How'd you give birth without a sugar daddy?!"

I'll tell you how I did it. The secret is I convinced people to work for beyond money. To be apart of a philosophical movement. To bring something great into this cold world.

But our dev work can only go so far. And unfortunately many of the influencers are outright censoring us. I was expecting Google SEO to censor me, but not MoneroTalk.

So we can keep pumping out features, updates, articles, podcasts, videos, locations, & browsers. But no amount of solutions will work, if you're ignoring the fundamentally flawed nature of browsers and speed fingerprinting. While Mullvad's billboards sell lies, ultimately the real dream of permissionless privacy will live or die with you.

GM. Have you ever seen a 45 year cup and handle chart before?

Me either...#silver

Are you joking, or is this serious? Can you share some more info?

What is obvious is that you are brainless monero shitcoiner.

You said nothing at all?

i went to find some solar punks to talk about this retarded looking battery with, but i found most of them had never touched a solar panel, or built a battey to store power. they just draw pictures and argue about the future. who knew🤷

anyway, this ugly ass battery has charged all of my devices and provided light in the evenings for the last two weeks just being charged by a small 50watt solar panel during the day.

privacy is not freedom.

a guy in "solitary "has privacy.

a "wall" around you doesn't make you free... even if you built the wall.

#asknostr

Give em an inch and they take a mile

Today is one of those days

Where I'm in utter fucking disbelief that people are okay just going on with their lives knowing damn well how fucking corrupt and broken the system is

They don't trust their own eyes, ears, or feeling in their gut

They choose ignorance rather than courage

The worst kind of human is the one who knows what's wrong and isn't doing a fucking thing to improve themselves, their family, or their community

I know we are making progress but holy fucking fuck is it painful some days

They want an impotent submissive people. We're propagandized into believing they'll do this with a vulgar display of physical or political power. Not so. It's the silent power they hold with surveillance that's so oppressive.

I wonder if those ‘big brother’ realities were just an experiment

Good point 🤗

But on the other hand I want at most one baby

If you build it, they will come 🤙

#Monero #Bitcoin

In seemingly small, but important ways, going through the discomfort and inconvenience of moving from Apple to Linux and Graphene has given me a substantially greater ability to appreciate—and actual appreciation of—freedom tech. Warts and all.

This has made the time and trouble worth it, many times over.

If you want to more deeply experience and understand what's possible and where it's all headed, I highly recommend making the switch.

#DigitalIdentity based social credit is rapidly replacing old systems of trust.

Test it