Everyday I open up Nostr and my timeline is filled with Pro Bitcoin memes and slogans,

But rarely do you guys post education on how to setup and balance lightning channels, and whats required on setting up a node.

I've never seen a single person discuss the cost minimums of swapping into lightning vs buying channels on-chain. Rather than treat Monero users like they don't exist or are shit-fucking-homeless.. actually show us how to use lightning

Using an alby lightning address connected to your self hosted albyhub is still custodial

It's also really interesting in another respect.

I remember when #Bitcoin advocates used to say the test was if it was independent of the markets.

As time has gone on, that has become less true if #btc and more true of #Monero

#xmr didn't follow the crash and it isn't following the run now. It's standing alone.

Monero is good from a privacy point of view as long as you also take into account privacy at the network level, which means always using your node.

But the way Monero is set up it has serious problems.

- The dynamic block size makes it not decentralized, because if it has a massive adoption only big companies will be able to run the nodes.

- It has a hidden and unsolvable inflation problem due to its technology (ring signatures), it is one of the reasons among others why Liquid did not adopt ring signatures, if they did they could not guarantee the 1:1 backing between Bitcoin and L-BTC.

- There is no consensus or stability in the network, Monero has had numerous hardforks throughout its short history to introduce new features which hinders its adoption as a store of value or currency.

- It has tail issuance, which while low, nothing guarantees given the history of hardforks that this will change in the future.

Monero supporters can cry and come and say I have no idea and blah blah blah, but the reality is what it is and the adoption of monero is what it is and the price of monero is what it is.

You can ignore reality but not its consequences.

Peer to peer trust less money. Money needs to be a store of value or you are sending nothing! Just send an email instead.

You can transact on BCH, why dont people?

That's just speculation, we don't know which fork they would choose. It is a risky play, whatever is decided.

Bitcoiners today want what money is designed to do,... Store value. That is more important than censorship right now.

I'm sure OGs are into Monero, but just as play money, they store their wealth in Bitcoin, because it works.

Well yes, if they choose the new fork, holders would be fucked and possibly the fund as people would then probably sell for real bitcoin. Still doesn't eliminate the fact they can't choose which would be adopted or not.

I think you found the honey pot

Either way it, there is no guarantee the forked chain will be accepted

Either way it, there is no guarantee the forked chain will be accepted

This is serious isn't ? What do you think about that ?

I'll have to look into that. There's no readymade for #Manjaro so I'd have to compile it, assuming they make the source code available and it's up to date.

What is it ?

It's hard to argue with that, not least because there are so many definitions of the term decentralised.

For example #Bisq is the only truly decentralised t trading exchange around, but many people think #umiswap as qualifies.

That's one of the weird things about #defi. Even the terminology is crowdsourced :)