no, swap fiat to monero, just to not have to use banks for payments.

selling bitcoin would be a tax event. buying something else and then immediately using it all to pay an invoice is tax zero.

so you can both save Bitcoin as a company and use advanced third millennium payment technologies (i.e. Not legacy camping system)

if the price is just >0, how are miners incentivized to secure the network?

also re mining it seems inadvisable to continue to do sha256

since hash is likely to be negligable, the network would be trivial to attack

and with no confidence nobody would use the network

and since nobody is using the network it isnt private

maybe its a question of details

wherea would be price end up?

exactly what privacy preserving techniques?

etc

but basically

id say a private version of btc does not make *good enough* tradeoffs to disrupt xmr and zec

I mean

Saylor straight up says in the interview that there's no way adoption will happen if Bitcoin pursues strong privacy.

You think power structures will allow it to happen AFTER they are heavily invested?

We could hardly get Segwit. You think you're going to get Blackrock consensus on a hard fork to allow full chain membership proofs?

First step, make a transparent p2p currency that cannot be controlled in a centralized manner nor censored.

Second step, make it adopted by enough people, corporation and governement.

Third step, update the protocole to be 100% private, untracable and anonymous by default.

Humanity win over elite and government control.

Depends on the country, but in Slovakia, if the unit is the same, then it's not selling, just changing form. That is one of the best use-cases for Monero in entrepreneurship.

Say you want to have a Bitcoin reserve in a company, but also want to pay suppliers with some crypto. Sale is a taxable event that goes to weighted average and triggers capital gains. So actually buying Monero and spending it at the same moment is a tax free event (buy and sale price are the same, minus the fees), but doing it with anything Bitcoin (does not matter if Cashu/fedi/lightning) would be taxable event. Of course you can also use stablecoins.

They do not

whats your procedure for confirming your cold storage? how many people keep an old laptop or partition around just to throw a clean linux distro onto?

then what wallet and how do you access it?

then how do you connect to your node?

What’s the popular android option ?

dont be so sure, it could be a way to confuse chainanal, even most simple bitcoin wallets propose rounded changes outputs when composing a tx today.

Fellow #Bitcoin node runners:

If you are running Bitcoin Core 26.0 please enable this in your bitcoin.conf file:

v2transport=1

This will enable BIP324 v2 transport protocol which as I understand it causes communication to be encrypted between nodes that have v2transport enabled. I can see from my own node that there are very few other nodes have have BIP324 enabled! Lets bring those numbers up! You can check your own node with:

bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep transport_protocol_type

and hopefully you see a few "v2".