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Chat control is a great opportunity to upgrade most of your contacts to SimpleX. After that you can make them aware of Graphene, especially if the play store delists SimpleX.
Communication is the base for organisation. After that begins the fun.
I see Monero even inherited the "RIP a thousand times" meme from Bitcoin.
Let's entertain a thought.
The best thing we could potentially do is spread as much FUD as possible regarding the 51% pushing all CEX into closing withdrawals in fear of getting double spent.
If all CEX close deposits the attackers will be forced to use DEX like RetoSwap where confirmations are a lesser problem. It would push liquidity to DEX and render price suppression moot.
Often the best strategy is to play into your adversaries cards and exaggerate their intentions to create disruptive and unforeseen development of things.
Bring on the FUD. Shout it from the roof tops. Pressure CEX into closing deposits.
Being a realist here. Monero is in a dire situation. The weight it carries is far to huge for the little (suppressed) price it holds while privacy violations become the new normal.
Bitcoin brothers we need you.
If more Bitcoiners see the light before it is too late and support Monero at least as a tool we'll have a bright future. No one else has the wisdom and financial power to cross the chasm for Monero in this hostile environment.
If Bitcoiners think it's better to get rid of Monero because the see it as competition instead of complimentary, then Monero will go down before BTC does as a fully KYC'ed Bitcoin with nobway to atomic swap to dark pools of money will essentially be an expansion of the surveillance state.
On August 15, 54 years ago, the gold standard was abolished.
There is no need to recount what has happened to society since then; anyone who underestimates the importance of money for a society is simply intellectually limited.
Money is obviously not everything in life, but it is very important, especially on a social level.
But more important than money is freedom, and for freedom to exist, we must have privacy and money that allows for it.
We Bitcoiners have fallen asleep and fallen into the trap of ordinals, runnes, filters, and other crap, while privacy in Bitcoin is still in its infancy. The attack has undoubtedly achieved its goal. While we argue about nonsense and use Bitcoin for purposes it was not intended for, the BIS is already thinking about how to classify Bitcoin transactions (tainted Bitcoins), and believe me, they will do it and they will succeed.
All this also shows how compromised most Core developers are. They have sold out to the system and have never had any concern for privacy, which leads me to believe that they either don't understand anything or are bad actors.
Over the years, I have collaborated on various Bitcoin privacy projects with different nyms, I have also contributed financially to various projects, and I feel that we have not made any progress and that there is nothing more I can do. I am not a genius like many programmers I have met, I am just a humble computer scientist with some crazy ideas, but if there is one thing I have, it is perseverance. I have been fighting for privacy on the internet for more than 25 years and, believe me, things are getting worse. Just look at what the European Union wants to do with chat control, but I will not give up.
And I don't want to end this boring wake-up call without mentioning the Bull Bitcoin wallet, one of the few that is concerned about privacy, currently the only one that has implemented payjoin v2, which allows you to perform payjoin asynchronously. If we all use this feature by default, neither the BIS nor anyone else would be able to do anything. Once again, payjoin is underestimated. Sometimes the simplest things are the most effective.
I would also like to mention nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn90p68yctzd968xtnfduq3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwpskcctwv35jucmvda6kgqpqt289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqggvcjg , the owner of Bull Bitcoin, who is one of the few who has always been concerned about privacy in Bitcoin and demonstrates this with all of his products. His own non-custodial exchange, Bull Bitcoin, performed coinjoin to maintain customer privacy, and he sponsored the implementation of joinstr in Rust.
Summary: If you truly believe in the free market, punish those who do not offer privacy because your freedom and that of your children are at stake.
We hold largely the same beliefs, with the small difference that some of us have given up on privacy on Bitcoin a decade ago.
Devs that don't care for privacy (or captured devs) have been a thing since at least 2013.
Now I support every possible way to increase privacy on all Bitcoin layers while pushing for Monero adoption.
Skipper is back posting charts. Which can only mean one thing: the bottom is in. Naked shorts covered thanks to an expensive marketing campaign.
We were the unnerving evangelists that made you aware of Bitcoin in the first place and again we are making you aware of Monero.
Like Bitcoiner that has seen the light will never join the fiat system again, a person that has integrated Monero into their life will never go down a Bitcoin only route. Not gonna happen.
If you care for Bitcoin only we can unite under cypherpunk, freedom value community action, but we won't become Bitcoin only maxis. Far to risky anyways with all these government agencies on board.
Hedge your bets. Appreciate the yin and the yang. The lunar and solar punk. It's a trap if you think one tool will fix everything. People can fix things they created with the right tools.
Man, we are early Bitcoiners. We joined camp BTC in 2009-2013 before we founded Monero.
You can not make us re-join. We never left. We just expanded. And we think maxi ideology is stupid. It didn't exist before 2017.
Unlike most recent Bitcoiners of the last decade we hold both.
If anything, rethink your stance. The development is a one way street that includes Monero AFTER you understood Bitcoin (including its flaws).
None of these companies are essential to human well being. We can replace most of these names with decentralised protocols.
Now you understand why they need this digital ID thingy. Because they will need you to force to use their products. And together with the state that wants to further extort your wealth they founded the digi-fashistic movement.
Have to love good ole fear mongering on a Friday morning!
Sure you probably won’t be using your non-KYC stack to make large purchases like buying a house but they won’t be able to stop you from making small p2p purchases for things like beef, weed from nostr:nprofile1qqsf960jkzjpecendet5vq8mhzlljdawvxfjktf5lhpenlw2ywmhj7qpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqc4mnnn and nostr:nprofile1qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0e5myqh Hold butter
If the money you use can't buy you a shelter for your family what is it even good for?
Exchanges are your weakspot.
Use something like RetoSwap or Eigenwallet (atomic swaps) over Tor that do not report your IP to authorities.
This is the way. More easy to maintain. Treat Monero as your spending account and Bitcoin as your saving account.
For generational wealth I'd recommend going at least 50:50 as you don't want to doxx your future family.
Yes, it is harder to maintain privacy that way because you create plenty of metadata that might be unique.
With FCMP++ in October the Monero side gets its most important upgrade in half a decade, that helps protect the Monero side of things even better, which is probably the reason we currently see the media campaign/state attack through qubic.
There is plenty of evidence. It's something adversarial thinkers in Bitcoin came up with as early as 2010.
It's the fiat endgame attack, where fiat is printed to be lost on CEX, as it is more profitable to burn some useless fiat shit tokens as long as the general public still trusts in it in order to keep a dangerous nascent alternative currency from growing (gaining publicity).
BTC is not a danger to the state. It was in its early days.
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Why? The real fight is out there in the streets. Talking to your neighbours. The shops in your community. If none of us stands up we'll all go down no matter the choice of preferred Crypto currency.
Monero and Bitcoin people are ideologically twins. A debate is boring. Solar and lunar punk are just like yin band yang. They beget each other.
Monero mining is a function of price. Since Monero price has been successfully surpressed for at least 5 years we now have a security budget that is at risk.
The answer is getting rid of CEX that do price suppression at the bidding of the state.
Always withdraw all your coins from CEX (if they let you) and recommend others to do the same.
Why You Should Own Bitcoin, Not Monero
https://blossom.primal.net/1ce7286744327baa2ee68dccaf6d972a9b0b939e2c36aa075dbf24473a1974cf.mp4
You should use Monero, not Bitcoin!
Never gonna happen
I recommend to map against M2 to see real performance of gold, BTC XMR.
Retoswap is a midterm bandaid.
They'll fade out cash and what is left is a highly KYC'ed trade part that AI will help to map.
If all of us do the bare minimum....
You do realise that 80% complied with shooting themselves poison up their veins, that offed some directly only because that was the hottest thing to do and show off how compliant one is with bullshit demands.
Monero is black market money. It's not waiting for permission from state controlled markets.
Just to get this right. We're talking about prices going down on fractional reserved exchanges that do not allow withdrawals of real coins? I don't agree that these internal dashboard numbers have any meaning. What has meaning to me is seeing Monero dominating the payment market wherever it is listed.
I do like when an educated person on the matter shares his critique. Many maxis were just parroting the attackers PR campaign to push their qubic shitcoin.
I do agree that Monero needs to die if it can't survive continuous price suppression and selfish mining attacks with rented hash power.
nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh is posting climate denialist shit, while living in my state - reminding me of the worthless subhumans who make me swerve to avoid being hit by them passing me because they're angry I drive at reasonable speeds.
I bet he is too much of a pussy to fight me, but happy to use a large vehicle to try to intimidate someone in a smaller vehicle.
There's a difference between climate denial, climate change denial and (partial) human made climate change denial.
Using BTC is better than not using it. But you don't give your users bsny privacy when you easily could by accepting Lightning and Monero through BTCPayServer.
What is your take on KickSecure/Whonix both based on Debian?
its a great question and I dont know the answer.
nostr:npub1m5s9w4t03znyetxswhgq0ud7fq8ef8y3l4kscn2e8wkvmv42hh3qujgjl3 is great at explaining that since we can't track it in any meaningful way
and a hard cap and exponential growth are dumb policy
a simple linear growth is best.
It's as good as any random fixed number. Knowledge is what stabelises anything.
True, but the alchemist asks the question how to change the perception of a thing. True power can alter reality for the masses. Laws and and UoA follow the perception, illusions and delusions of the masses.
I guess you can ask hyc. He is even here on Nostr.
UoA is ultimately a consensus in our minds.
Change your mind and by that change the consensus. One by one. Live outside the system wherecfiat accounting bybothers has diminishing effects on your mental health.
In a global world Monero is the private exit anybody can take. Poor or rich.
What happens in a post USD world when everything is measured in BTC? Against what is BTC supposed to rise? Against itself? This only works because most BTC (fiat NGU maxis) operate on a mental fiat standard.
It's when wrong design decisions will become obvious to more and more people.
Involuntary effect is that they get to poison people with less poison. Positive health effects.
We both probably already were in discussion like this, right? 🙂
But for the sake of argument:
- How does monero scale?
- What is so simple monero wallet?
- How can monero beat bitcoin in terms of value it stores?
- For privacy related fight I would need to summon nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s
Monero scales for the time being onchain with dynamic blocksizes. With its next upgrade it can have a LN built on top of it with mentioned downsides (and upsides).
Cake and Stack make it extremely easy to manage Monero and other coins if you desire. They come with Tor integration out of the box which means even if people do not run their own nodes they get good network anonymity.
Why does it need to beat Bitcoin. That's maxi philosophy. Best tool for the job. Just use BTC as your store of value. With atomic swaps you can move In and out as you need it. My personal recommendation is to buy any BTC via non KYC Monero.