i have a glitch and won't use it because of the name

strange hang-up

But your fighting human nature and human nature is generally going to be as greedy as possible. So donations would be unlikely and cashing out slowly and or buying products slowly enough not to crash the price would also be unlikely.

What is achieved by hiding IP address with a VPN when accessing coinbase after doing KYC?

Inflation bugs definitely are possible. However, there's a lot of work that goes into making sure that does not occur. And at least as of now, we don't seem to have had one because if we did, we would see much higher Monero inflation because somebody with an inflation rate bug is going to print themselves more Monero. And so far, in the 10 years Monero has existed, we've not seen evidence of such.

Inflation bugs are possible. That is the argument against xmr? Btw I love xmr for private transactions

+1

to skip to the end of this painfully disingenuous conversation

people who buy non-KYC will generally also have a KYC stack as well.

and this clowns advice of "just be sure to never ever do anything to connect your two stacks" is fucking ridiculous.

particularly when you could

you know

just use monero and not worry about it.

30k-40k total volume... There is no privacy if someone wants to link you to tx in it. Especially if you're moving in and out, which you have to do to maintain your purchasing power. Best just use Bitcoin pseudonymously...

then Bitcoin isn't money

Privacy is everyone's individual responsibility. No amount of hand holding will fix it. Time to learn.

Opsec works for everyone

Privacy is not about the coin you use. This is why you don't get it.

The scaling problem is objectively worse in the ring sig design, than other blockchains, since the set of unspent coins is "all the coins" :) Debatable how much it matters.

(I think the new fcmp stuff will not fix this even if it's way better in other ways, but .. not sure)

Gold has a 1.5% inflation rate according to the World Gold Council. And yet, it's what people think of when they hear store of value. The fact that Monero has a 0.8% inflation rate and falling definitely does not discourage it as a good store of value and investment.

The fact that it loses purchase power over time isn't FUD. It's fact.

There are different use cases. I don't think BTC is in the "electronic cash" game at all to begin with. Just like XMR is not in the store of value game.

End of Ghosh Chat | Important Story, Lesson & Realization | Warning for Threema & Session Users!

It looks like Australian government agencies have compromised Ghosh Chat, an anonymous & encrypted messaging service.

Context: Ghosh Chat was an anonymous messaging platform where you could send messages without requiring an email or phone number. It was partially open-source but controlled by a single company. In terms of user experience, company structure, and governance, it was very similar to Threema and Session.

But like any company, they had a headquarters. Ghosh Chat’s HQ was based in Sydney. Until yesterday, it was generally trusted for anonymity and encryption. It was used daily by many criminals across the world and had been battle-tested, although it also had plenty of regular users.

The Scary Part: It turns out Ghosh Chat had been compromised for quite some time. Today, police started making arrests across Australia. Authorities have all the chat logs and are now using them to incriminate users.

The site is still live, but it’s compromised.

So, what went wrong? Ghosh Chat wasn’t just any app—it was OG, battle-tested, and encrypted. But it had the same fundamental problem as Session and Threema—and it’s a dangerous one.

The issue is the single point of failure. When one company has full control over the underlying protocol, the app/website, and the encryption implementations, it becomes incredibly easy to introduce backdoors, compromise the entire network, or even take it down altogether.

Nostr now has a huge opportunity to solve the private communication problem once and for all. It’s the only decentralized, permissionless, and anonymous communication protocol that exists right now.