You tell us 👀

"Monero is a very good privacy complement to Bitcoin" -Nick Szabo

"I looked at all the other major cryptocurrencies that had adjustable blocksizes and the only one that I thought that didn't completely suck was Monero" -Jameson Lopp

"Maybe you need a Monero" -Michael Saylor

"For really strong privacy, Monero is much better" -Andreas Antonopoulos

"There's a lot of advantages to using Monero" -Matt Odell

"Monero is the only goddamn currency that's used!" -John McAfee

"Monero will be a champion in that space and we'll have a Bitcoin-Monero duopoly" -Max Keiser

"All fiat systems and all tokens outside of Bitcoin and monero (to my knowledge) have middlemen you cannot get rid of" -Adam Curry

"I would say Monero is not a shitcoin. I think it's a very innovative and new research project that works." -Max Hillbrand

"Monero; Just use it. Objectively it's better than Bitcoin [for privacy]...it's obvious" -Amir Taaki

"Monero is closer to our hearts than whatever Bitcoin is turning into today" -Samourai Wallet

"Bitcoin is the reserve currency. Hold it. Privacy coins are transactional privacy. Use them...Monero" -Balaji

"99% of cryptocurrencies are complete and total garbage, but even among the upper echeleon of real ones, Monero is in the top percentile, so it deserves our respect" -Paul Sztorc

"Surprising number of Monero lovers on #Nostr. It’s the only altcoin that I consider has a community of actual cypherpunks with similarly aligned values as bitcoin." -Guy Swann

"Monero has always been the altcoin outlier for me, never a shitcoin because I have a valid use for it that I can't achieve with #bitcoin." -Peter McCormack

"I have an issue when Bitcoiners get so closed-minded and says Moneros a shitcoin. No it's not. There's some brilliant people there and there's a lot to learn...I'm a fan of Monero." -Nicholas Gregory of Mercury Layer

"Cashu isn't an alternative to Monero. Monero is cool." -Calle

"To me Monero is the litmus test in Bitcoin...Monero is such a good money just technically" -Ragnar Lifthrasir of Guns N Bitcoin

"There are altcoins out there that have interesting ideas, but they are very very rare...if a couple altcoins exist, like Monero, where they actually have an interesting idea and a different model that's fine." -Peter Todd

"Monero is doing the job that gave btc its start." -Ray Youssef

Thought you guys might like this quote 🍇 found it today while making some handwritten notes on the back of some recycled papers.

Thanks. But I guess, I'll try it again in a few years or so. Looks to buggy and experimental.

I don't understand how to use Amber. Usability is so bad, I can't even find out where to copy my nsec, which should be the main config task. I expect exactly one field for that. Instead it says something about seed phrases, about backup, about encrypting the seed and what not. How can one mess that up so badly?

Yes

To me, this is the last atop for us, the last barrier to cross for true sovereignty

Nostr is close, keet is even closer (but can't verify source code soo doesn't count), but they all still rely on traditional ISP's

-Bitcoin for value

-Nostr for speech

-FOSS(H) 3D printers for 2A🔫

- HAM/mesh for base layer communications*

*this is the final boss; defeating the ISP's (We have HAM, but illegal to be transmit encrypted traffic [FDC watches all bands like a hawk])

#Reticulum & #Meshtastic are the final frontiers for us to be able to communicate truly freely, self-hosted, independently

Yes

To me, this is the last atop for us, the last barrier to cross for true sovereignty

Nostr is close, keet is even closer (but can't verify source code soo doesn't count), but they all still rely on traditional ISP's

-Bitcoin for value

-Nostr for speech

-FOSS(H) 3D printers for 2A🔫

- HAM/mesh for base layer communications*

*this is the final boss; defeating the ISP's (We have HAM, but illegal to be transmit encrypted traffic [FDC watches all bands like a hawk])

#Reticulum & #Meshtastic are the final frontiers for us to be able to communicate truly freely, self-hosted, independently

Same

That was my plan for this 2024 spring, but didn't get to it in full the way I wanted too.

Need to incentivize folks in my town to actually use it

Been thinking about asking local businesses to share coupon codes via the mesh over #reticulum or #meshtastic, having people reply over mesh to redeem the coupon. Or, they have to walk in the store, showing the mesh message to use the coupon. Can't just have a friend take a snapshot and share it with them

- wow I like this. Please tear it to shreads if someone doesn't think its a good idea

This is not true. This is false. I implemented an ActivityPub server that behaves exactly like other ActivityPub servers.

I am surprised that the people behind "fediblock" suddenly don't know how to defederate a server.

We prob watched the same vid; it was a good watch

Will order the book too

I saw this book not too long ago. Great reminder to get & read thanks for sharing

Excited for it