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Saberhagen The Nameless
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1) % Dos blocos órfãos são convenientemente cortados da imagem (coisa normal para ocasionalmente acontecer em qualquer blockchain).

2) Observe quantos blocos acontecem entre qualquer bloco órfão (blocos amarelos).

3) Finalmente, perceba que o hash desconhecido inclui mineradores solo e outras piscinas desconhecidas - não apenas Qubic. Eu posso te ensinar como criticar adequadamente Monero, irmão, mas isso não é slam dunk que você acha que é 😂

https://moneroconsensus.info/

https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero

Come on now zero drawbacks? Everything has drawbacks.

Well, let's start off with Liquid. No sender or receiver privacy (only amount privacy), virtually zero anonymity set because no one uses it, no p2p markets/merchant adoption, and custodial. It's a worse Monero on almost every dimension, besides longterm price, but if you care about that why not just hodl Bitcoin securely?

UX on Lightning sucks. Inbound/outbound liquidity is unintuitive and clunky. The larger the payment the more likely it is to fail at routing. To acheive strong privacy (from both counter parties and third parties) and actually retain sovereignty you have to jump all these hoops which is why vast majority use custodians or LSPs that diminish your privacy, permission your transactions, and the former can rug you.

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

https://unsigned.io/software/index.html

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Nice clickbait articles that are taking the word of a single shitcoiner (who you wouldn't take at their word, with no evidence, in any other scenario), but I'm asking you to point it out directly through known pool hashrate, leftover unreported hashrate, or orphaned blocks.

It doesn't exist and didn't come anywhere close to what Qubic was claiming even before the supposed DDoS. You can verify yourself with my previous links.

"Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent."

https://xcancel.com/accrescentapp/status/1952410172812677174#m

https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-future-of-accrescent/

"Rough draft of Rucknium's web app for Monero consensus monitoring: moneroconsensus.info/ #xmrconsensus

Tracks pool data (via DataHoarder_'s git.gammaspectra.live/WeebDa…) for malicious signs: selfish mining (high honest orphan rates) & double-spends (deep re-orgs as alt chains)."

https://xcancel.com/MoneroResearchL/status/1951659427737546919

https://moneroconsensus.info

Monfluo 0.8.1 release

Monfluo a pure Monero wallet for Android.

-Update Monero to 0.18.4.1

-Properly detect and display tor/i2p icons for nodes

-Update NDK, this should make the app support 16KiB pages

https://codeberg.org/acx/monfluo/releases

Replying to Avatar Corbin

Your point about money demand and purchasing power is well-taken but incomplete.

In monetary economics, the predictability of a currency's supply does not inherently ensure its efficacy as a store of value. Bitcoin's protocol-enforced scarcity, capped at 21 million coins with diminishing issuance, aligns with Austrian economic principles of sound money, prioritizing absolute scarcity and verifiability over elastic supply models like Monero's tail emission.

As Saifedean Ammous argues, Bitcoin's transparent ledger and scalable divisibility, bolstered by second-layer solutions like ecash or Lightning as experienced here on Nostr, deliver both robust integrity and private, efficient transactions-outstripping alternatives prone to dilution or hidden centralization risks.

Even a tiny amount of money, like one dollar, could theoretically supply an entire economy if it’s divisible enough.

Author of The #Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean writes: “What matters in money is its purchasing power, not its quantity, and as such, any quantity of money is enough to fulfil the monetary functions, as long as it is divisible and groupable enough to satisfy holders’ transaction and storage needs.”

This comes from a summary of the book on Medium, which captures the essence of his argument about divisibility being key to a currency’s functionality, not its total amount.

Something else he's said that I agree with: Money’s effectiveness depends on how well it can be divided to meet economic demands, not how much of it exists. For example, even a single dollar could work if it could be split into tiny fractions for transactions, much like how Bitcoin’s is almost infinitely divisible supports its scalability and rids any concern of "elasticity".

A fixed supply, when paired with sufficient divisibility, can dynamically adapt to demand through market-driven adjustments in purchasing power, not artificial supply expansion. In summary, Bitcoin’s current and potential infinite divisibility through protocol upgrades or layered solutions eliminates the need for an elastic supply while preserving its scarcity.

This makes it a superior alternative to gold, which is prone to capture and supply shocks, fiat, which suffers from centralized overissuance or any ever increasing commodity, even if the increase is predictable.

Additionally, Bitcoin’s strictly capped supply of 21 million coins, paired with its scalable divisibility, distinguishes it from cryptocurrencies with perpetually increasing issuance, even if predictable.

Such coins, akin to commodities, risk gradual dilution of value and susceptibility to centralized mining incentives, undermining their long-term reliability as a store of value compared to Bitcoin’s unalterable scarcity.

By enabling transactions at increasingly granular levels, Bitcoin ensures that its fixed supply of 21 million coins can meet the demands of a global economy without diluting investors, rendering the elasticity argument obsolete.

Saifedean argues that Bitcoin’s fixed supply is a cornerstone of its value as a money.

Unlike fiat currencies, which central banks can print at will, or even gold, which can see supply shocks from new mining tech or discoveries, Bitcoin’s hard cap is coded into its protocol, making its scarcity absolute and predictable.

This fixed supply with new issuance halving roughly every four years mimics the increasing difficulty of extracting gold but without the physical world’s vulnerabilities, like new mines flooding the market.

In the book, he says Bitcoin’s supply schedule “ensures that at any point in time, there will only ever be a fixed amount in circulation, and no authority can change or violate this,” which he contrasts with gold’s historical supply swings, like the Spanish conquest or the California Gold Rush mentioned earlier.

This ties into his broader point that scarcity, enforced by code rather than physical limits, makes Bitcoin resistant to the capture and manipulation gold falls prey to.

>"In monetary economics, the predictability of a currency's supply does not inherently ensure its efficacy as a store of value."

I didn't claim this. My point was a similar one. Just like predictability, less supply or capped supply does not necessarily = scarcer. You're completely ignoring the other side of scarcity which is demand.

If there is a supply of one, yet no one demands it, there is no scarcity. Similarly if a good has a smaller capped supply that is less demanded, and another good has a larger continuous supply with much more demand, the latter can be more scarce at any point in time than the former.

>"This makes it a superior alternative to gold, which is prone to capture and supply shocks, fiat, which suffers from centralized overissuance or any ever increasing commodity, even if the increase is predictable."

Those are disadvantages yes, but you're ignoring other advantages gold has over Bitcoin (fungibility, privacy, network effect, wider acceptance, independent of digital infrastructure, longer proven history as SoV, physical, doesn't cease to exist without miners, etc). What properties people value more than the other is subjective.

>"...even gold, which can see supply shocks from new mining tech or discoveries"

Threats from new technology apply to Bitcoin as well if not more so. Easy example is the threat of quantum computing potentially breaking it along with what that would do to confidence in it as a SoV

>"Bitcoin’s hard cap is coded into its protocol, making its scarcity absolute and predictable."

Capped supply, predictability, or code alone can't enforce SoV - a network of people must be in consensus with it. If that network dilutes with growing "normies" that become the majority, and government entices them with carrots and sticks down the road to move their money to a fork, with a supply controlled by the state, the smaller "original" network might still exist, but there goes the SoV narrative.

Not even sure what point you're making

I'm saying theres only a handful of Monero bros on Nostr

Monero users tip with both Lightning and Monero. You just don't see the Monero side because it's not shown to the public and you don't have a Monero address on your profile

Eu sabia que isso te deixava feliz por acreditar, mas nunca houve um ataque de 51%; foi uma jogada de marketing de altcoins.

https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero

Então está a dizer que a Liquid abdica da autocustódia, o objetivo do Bitcoin.

Mas ainda bem que chegamos ao ponto de admitir que o Liquid não é uma ferramenta de privacidade tão boa como o Monero. Então, lembre-me por que razão está a utilizar uma "ferramenta de privacidade" inferior se a está a utilizar apenas ostensivamente para privacidade?

Porque não usar uma ferramenta de privacidade melhor?

They lose the trail as soon as you swap. They won't even necessarily know you swapped to Monero in the first place depending which of those you use. But even if they do that's where their knowledge ends.

If convenience is your priority, you would be using KYC exchanges to get Bitcoin anyway. Not that I recommend doing that.

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Yes, but the whole point of lightning is to very rarely open/close channels and mostly transact over lightning.

For once we agree on something

Gold did it for thousands of years with a small bit of inflation

You don't need to introduce inflation, but you have to do something if you want to avoid the security problem when block rewards run out.

Relying on price to go up forever, and at the same rate as the past, to secure Bitcoin is very risky to say the least

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Replying to Avatar Gareth Kitchen

A Pixel with nostr:nprofile1qqs9g69ua6m5ec6ukstnmnyewj7a4j0gjjn5hu75f7w23d64gczunmgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q4gnztg is far more secure than some other device with LineageOS. Just 'removing' Google doesn't improve your privacy or security, it just restricts what Google know about you and will almost uncertainly leave your device vulnerable.

True, but if your goal is privacy and the choice is between an old phone you can install LineageOS on VS stock android I would go LineageOS all day

Both basically their own attempts at a private/anonymous Ethereum

DarkFi is Amir Taakis project it isn't officially out yet. Still in alpha I think. They have the "worlds first fully anonymous chat" you can use but still very early stuff.

Beam has been around since 2019. It is similar to Tari in that it is built on MimbleWimble, so no amounts or addresses visible, but it also combines that with Lelantus (shielded pools) to avoid revealing the transaction graph which is a weakness of normal MW. Very strong privacy and scalability.

https://dark.fi/

https://www.beam.mw/

Most abused quote in Bitcoin. Not asking for you to convince me. I'm just stating facts for others reading through this.