This is so silly and not worth arguing about. I think most real bitcoiners and monero people have a very similar viewpoint of life: sovereignty, privacy, cypherpunk lifestyle, little to no government, ect. Protocols are winner take all games and I just think bitcoin has clearly won. Must larger adoption, larger market cap, easier to audit, more layer 2 development, better scalability, liquidity, ect.

I guess it also depends what youre trying to achieve. I think most bitcoiners would agree that we are trying to replace the broken fiat system globally and seperate the money from state. Does the monero croud not want global adoption? Do you want it to just stay as a currency for the dark web? Are you hipsters that dont actually want average joes to understand your privacy coin cuz then it wouldnt be cool anymore?

I only arguing because btc and monero people have a lot in common and I would like more monero people to come over to the winning side because the more devs, builders, and individual thinkers, the better.

What's you're favorite D&D class?

Here you go:

– Security risk: Monero’s 2017 bug allowed coins to be created out of thin air—undetected for months.

– Consensus failure: 2019 hard fork caused a 2-chain split due to non-deterministic block hashing.

– Wallet bugs: The 2022 bug in monero-wallet-rpc caused incorrect balances for months.

– Attack surface: Every hard fork expands it—new cryptography = new risk. Bitcoin avoids this by evolving conservatively.

– Low adoption: 10% of BTC’s volume sounds great... until you realize BTC has 100x the user base, merchant support, and liquidity.

– Auditability: You 'believe' Monero’s supply is right because math says so—Bitcoin proves it transparently on-chain. Big diffetence. Not going to get an insurance company to use it as collateral for example

Totally agree. The threat model will determine the right coinjoin implementation/approach, but fake coinjoins are almost pointless.

😳 i just looked it up - it could be made into an electromagnetic insulator and it’s also medicinal… 🤯 does that mean it i eat it, i would be impenetrable by microwave thingy?? 😝

What are some of the downsides of monero?

Frequent hard forks, security risks, chain splits, network fragmentation, consensus failure, large attack surface, wallet incomparability, misconfigurations, bugs, no formal voting process for changes, low liquidity, low adoption, large transaction size, can't audit it, regulatory risk, and limited scalability

No its just a shitcoins bro

If I were a government trying to kill #Bitcoin, I wouldn’t ban or fight it. I’d embrace and sell it.

I’d push ETFs, custodial wallets, and institutional Bitcoin 🏛️ while the masses line up to hand over their keys 🔑

Why? Because convenience always wins over responsibility.

When the 6102 moment comes, I won’t need to seize their Bitcoin. They already gave it to me.

The only way to win is self-custody 🧠

These aren't hard skills. Just new ones.

Learn them or live in a world where freedom is visible but never yours. 🗝️🚫

I'm going to be honest, when I started working on Leathermint I was not expecting to get so much more support from Nostr than Twitter.

A lot of creators are sleeping on Nostr. They ignore it. It's a mistake. I found some larger opportunities on Twitter but the retail and grassroot is on Nostr.

If your privacy model depends on a hard fork every year, thats not resilience, thats fragility. Bitcoins privacy evolves without risking chain splits every time it upgrades. Its a serious security risk and increases the attack surface.

Comparing monero base layer to Bitcoin layer 2s tools is disingenuous. Bitcoin builds on bedrock and monero is built on sand that needs constant patching

The fact that new coins are produced means the money supply increases by a planned amount, but this does not necessarily result in inflation. If the supply of money increases at the same rate that the number of people using it increases, prices remain stable. If it does not increase as fast as demand, there will be deflation and early holders of money will see its value increase. Coins have to get initially distributed somehow, and a constant rate seems like the best formula.

It seems to have been a theatrical performance. Iran orewarned, no casualties and the sites not really destroyed either.

Im standing with my earlier suspicions that it was partially a test of public sentiment.

Dummy Cartridge?

I have never been to Iran. But I read "All the Shah's Men" (about the 1953 coup d'état) and I follow international relations more than I probably should - certain well known people via YouTube, lots of OSINT people on X, and I even listen to UN security council meetings from time to time. And I share what I think I know.

I'm not clear on what Trump's goals are. It wasn't stopping a nuclear weapon (he knows they were not working on one). But now it seems it wasn't regime change either since it was "one and done". Maybe he was somehow required to do this for Netanyahu, and he did as little as he promised to seal some secret deal. Or maybe he's not done.

As for Iran, everything they do makes sense to me. The IAEA shared details with Israel who used them to assassinate. They also failed to condemn the US attack on nuclear facilities. Iran can't (and shouldn't) trust them anymore, so they are stopping cooperation with them. Of course this makes the chance that Iran develops nuclear weapons higher, not lower.

A lot of bombs fell in Tehran and around Iran. I don't have information on where, or what it was like for Iranians. I'm interested in hearing about that myself.

3.5 x 4.9 Antique Original Persian Handmade Rug

- $500 (Plus shipping) Paid in BTC

#asknostr

I'm about to drive across the country and want gps directions and the ability to find stuff along myway. I don't want Google play services.

Recommendations?

#foss

Just balance it with some positivity. Life is already exhausting enough and we don’t want him to just fuck this community and forget about everything.

Why?

Why?

DNSSEC nuked 2 of my domains yesterday 😅 on of them was for a mail server.

I could just ask chatgpt.. but I’d rather pass some sats and connect with nostriches.

Just got a cast iron pan. What should I know about using it? Tips? Tricks? And recipes??

#asknostr #grownostr

Too true. I shudder to think what kind of world this would be if we had spent the last 70 years treating other nations with respect.

The kids then would be grandparents now, teaching their grandchildren to hate America for being so nice.

You are free to trust ashigaru and use a vulnerable coinjoin implementation. I like doing my research and sharing things.

Working on a proof of concept that would make it easier to understand how a whirlpool coordinator can link inputs and outputs.

As the builder of a competitor, I expect bias. He checked the code rather than trusted an anonymous blog post. Most people haven't.

But the question is - push where :-) .. end the fiat system ? Move all money from Gold ?

More we push ..more harm we do ! .. to a pristine technology with ideologies !

Omw now

Robosats has a similar threat model as Silk Road and its successors

The threat is "if we are caught running this illegal exchange, we go to jail for a long time"

They rely on LN's privacy properties to keep them from being discovered and so far it is working well for them

Notice that the XMR marketplace went down, not the LN one

> if it has an .onion

...and sells stuff

FTFY

Drugs are bad for you bro

I only use DNMs to trade bitcoin

But if that's what you're looking for, I recommend Robosats and Bisq

Well... in other news. I made it to Oregon. Half the party anyway. My wife and kid died in a river crossing gonna awry... but I think that's to be expected.

Thanks, bro. Any tips I should be aware of? I've been out of the loop for some time

Curious, do you have a definition for maximalist? I consider myself a maxi, but our conceptualisation of what a maxi is may be different.

Here’s why I don’t believe a fixed money supply would stop investment.

Human nature plays a key role, where people are driven to accumulate more. Even in a Bitcoin-based system, the incentive to grow wealth remains. Investing in companies involves risk, but the potential reward is earning more sats. That incentive structure doesn’t go away just because the money supply is fixed.

If global productivity increases by 2–5% annually, individuals will naturally seek out investment opportunities that outperform that baseline. The pursuit of returns above average productivity is what drives capital allocation, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

A fixed money supply doesn't inherently cause harmful deflation, it simply reflects improved output. Money acts as a measuring stick. If there's only one week of food left in the world, the price of that food will skyrocket, even under a Bitcoin standard, not because of the monetary system, but due to scarcity.

Investment thrives on incentive, and incentives don't disappear in a hard money system.

I could be wrong, but I haven't found a compelling argument as to why it is yet.

premature ossification is achualy bad

#activateCTV