Sim, veremos, e espero que fique estranhamente calado quando perceber que não se trata de um ASIC 😂

https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1696194470868328916

https://twitter.com/kayabaNerve/status/1695873486814638149

https://twitter.com/hundehausen/status/1695874356650316277

https://x.com/sethforprivacy/status/1696190393270849637?s=20

Agora passaste de potencialmente mal informado a desesperado. Os mineiros da Bitmain não são mineiros ASIC, como já lhe expliquei. Não são mais eficientes do que qualquer CPU que tenhas no teu computador graças ao RandomX. A sua vontade de atacar o Monero sem sequer conhecer os factos mais básicos é óbvia.

O anonimato e a privacidade foram fundamentais para a pré-história da bitcoin. Nunca leste o manifesto cripto-anarquista ou cypherpunk? Ou qual era o objetivo da sua tecnologia? O objetivo era dinheiro anónimo e não rastreável.

Não sei onde foste buscar a ideia de que o Monero não tem valor. É a moeda de escolha para os mercados mais adversários e livres do mundo. Mercados Darknet.

"A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" O título do livro branco. O valor fundamental do papel-moeda é a sua combinação de privacidade, fungibilidade e natureza peer-to-peer. A moeda física é utilizada para poupanças a longo prazo? Não, é utilizada como meio de troca, com custos de transação muito baixos, tal como o Monero.

O Bitcoin só pode atingir o nível de privacidade do Monero em L2s, o que sacrifica a auto-custódia, a ausência de permissão, a descentralização e/ou o peer-to-peer. Com o Monero, é possível manter tudo isso.

L2s in the flavor of lightning bring more problems than they are worth imo...

Reliance on middlemen nodes for succesful routing and cheapest fees,

illusion of final settlement,

need capacity to recieve,

can't send modestly large amounts,

both parties must be online to transact,

can be rugged if your node isn't active,

can be force closed onto the base chain against your will.

Monero lightning would have all these problems. Bad trade.

https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/lightning-limitations/

https://moneroinfodump.neocities.org/#JustUseLightningNetworkBro

Worst of all, even after all these sacrifices, lightning overpromises on it's one supposed advantage: scalability.

It's terrible sovereign UX is why 95%+ of users are on custodial wallets like WoS. Which defeats the whole purpose of crypto.

XMR doesn't have RBF(replace by fee), so 0-conf transactions are relatively safe anyway, unlike BTC, especially for trivial amounts. BCH makes this even better with DPS (double spend proofs) which make this 99.9% safe. I think BCH handles "instant" transactions in a better way and Monero should adopt it.

https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/Tech/what-is-0-conf#double-spend-proofs-dsps

The Optout podcast sommerfeld mentioned is a gem. Highly recommend. It's a major reason I got into the privacy world. Each episode revolves around a different privacy tool for the most part.

Also consider switching over to an open source and encrypted password manager like Bitwarden. Probably the most convenient and popular. Or you can checkout one of the KeePass forks if you like your passwords completely offline.

I would avoid NordVPN if you can. MullvadVPN and IVPN are better choices.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

https://pluja.github.io/awesome-privacy/#VPNs

Check out those links and don't get overwhelm yourself by switching everything at once. Do the easy stuff first and slowly switch over time.

O "Dandelion++" também oculta a origem IP de uma transação

Sem ofensa, mas esses dois anfitriões não parecem ter nenhum entendimento técnico básico da privacidade do Monero.

Eles apenas discutem "assinaturas de anel", que é uma tecnologia de privacidade baseada na ofuscação e apenas para a privacidade do remetente. É apenas 1 das 3 camadas de privacidade que o Monero usa.

O Monero também utiliza "transacções confidenciais" para esconder completamente os montantes e "endereços furtivos" para esconder os destinatários através de encriptação. Estes dois não podem sequer ser vistos no seu blockchain. Eles estão completamente escondidos.

Exemplo:

Talvez Alice tenha enviado $[?] para [?]

Se quiser uma conversa honesta e ponderada sobre os pontos fortes e fracos do Monero entre dois respeitados Bitcoiners e utilizadores do Monero - nada melhor do que Giacomo e Seth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PRKKlI-Jo

100% agree

Just pointing out either choice is a risk and doesn't skirt it's own unique consequences

Making the choice to ossify and be conservative is a valid approach and strategy for a protocol.

But many Bitcoin maxis erroneously equate not changing Bitcoin's protocol as "playing it safe"

Not changing is also a choice. Bitcoin is not avoiding risk and consequences by doing this. Big difference.

Coinjoining is weak privacy via obfuscation (vs encryption). The range of connections and amounts are all still visible. Can be unraveled with more data or user mistakes.

Lightning sender privacy is decent. Reciever privacy is bad and amounts can be derived.

"We identified 27,183 private channels, discovered hidden balances, and showed how a passive adversary can infer payment endpoints with very high probability."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12470.pdf

Liquid only hides amounts. The transaction graph is still visible. And it is a permissioned network. Among many other problems.

https://twitter.com/Truthcoin/status/1689337656319016960

Ecash is great privacy - better than anything above. But unfortunately Ecash is custodial and rehypothecatable.

Yes, 99% of alts are trash. But there are a handful that are legit. There are many things alts provide that Bitcoin cannot.

Strong default privacy, real world fungibility, extremely cheap transaction fees are just a few. All while remaining non-custodial, permissionless, and P2P.

You can't be good at something you don't specialize in. You also can't be good at everything because each aspect requires trade offs that are mutually exclusive.

Politician simps are the worst. That goes tenfold for any bitcoiner who is one.