I'm retired since my 30s, couldn't care less that you choose to remain poor

The difference is that I see things for what they are.

Privacy was never optional on cryptocurrencies, reason why we moved to Monero several years ago. Anyone telling you otherwise is only benefiting from fooling you.

After the knots vs core and all other shenanigans I'm not sure Bitcoin will out perform monero over the next decade.

Crypto has a Latin origin which means "to hide". You've been using virtual coins all your life without ever understanding why crypto was created in the first place.

The only crypto currency in past years that is worthy of such definition is still Monero.

Wrong. #Monero is the way

ANALOG REBELS IN DIGITAL TIMES. THEY WERE BORN TOO SOON.

If Lysander Spooner, Henry David Thoreau, and Samuel Edward Konkin III were alive in 2025, they wouldn't use banks or touch Bitcoin.

They would laugh at KYC and embrace a single tool. For them, privacy wasn't a “feature,” it was the only form of resistance.

Let's see why they would choose $XMR.

-Lysander Spooner: The Enemy of the State.

For him, the government was literally a band of robbers. He challenged the postal monopoly to prove that the state was unnecessary.

Today: He would use Monero not for business, but to nullify monetary authority. If the state controls your money, it owns you. Monero takes that power away. His logic: “The constitution has no authority.” $XMR is anarchy in code.

-Henry David Thoreau: The Fiscal Ghost.

He was imprisoned for not financing the state with his taxes.

Today: I wouldn't just go to a booth, but I would be walking the streets with a non-custodial wallet. Cash is devalued, and banks are snitches for the state. For Thoreau, modern civil disobedience is financial. His “Walden” today would be a Monero seed phrase: unreachable and invisible.

-Samuel Konkin III (SEK3): The Shadow Architect.

The father of Agorism and counter-economics.

Today: He would consider Bitcoin and its public ledger to be the IRS's wet dream. Doing counter-economics on a transparent blockchain? No way. Konkin would choose Monero because it is the only technology that fulfills the agorist promise: undetectable commerce and zero accountability.

These guys dreamed of tools that didn't exist in their time. We are lucky to have them at our fingertips.

Spooner, Thoreau, and Konkin wouldn't ask for permission.

They would use $XMR and let the system do the talking.

Freedom is not asked for; it is exercised.

can't get my lnd node to sync suddenly, no idea what's going on, thankfully AI is here

Here you realize that Scamourai's followers are either intellectually deficient or simply scammers who take people for fools.

My track record is as follows:

- I have never been a supporter of centralized coordinators because they are subject to government laws and because there is no guarantee that they will execute the code they claim to execute.

- I am aware of Joinmarket's limitations and that it is not easy to use and requires guidelines.

- I discovered poor management of the Tor circuits in Samourai that allowed all inputs and outputs to be linked to the same entity, which its followers refused to admit, and which Ashigaru admitted and claims to have corrected (I have not wasted any more time reviewing Ashigaru's code).

That said, all cases of Wasabi de-anonymization have been due to poor practice by “criminals” in the subsequent consolidation of addresses. This flaw occurs in Scamourai, Wasabi, Joinmarket, Joinstr, or whatever Coinjoin tool you use.

And now Scamourai's followers will say, “But we have postmix tools!” Sure, they're not useful when you steal 1,000 bitcoins, right? And their use is not mandatory either.

So let's not talk nonsense. Scamopurai has always been what privacy should not be: a business.

If you have the guts, stop the sibyl attacks and remove the coordination fee, but of course, that would dismantle your little racket.

And also stop collecting xpubs, but anyway, that's another issue, which shows your total incompetence, as it's clear in Dojo that xpubs go directly to the database. So now you know, guys, attack the Dojo servers to get your users' xpubs.

That said, small users should forget about this crap and use Lightning, which is more private.

Ich kenne einige die das gerne verboten sehen wollen.

Wenn es um Verbote geht, dann interessiert sich die Politik für die Meinung der Menschen. 😄 Nur weil es ein paar Idioten in Großstädten gibt. 🫣

PV! All the rage on X these days, are photos of sensors showing extreme CO2 levels on board of airplanes.

This is very easy to fake, using your own breath. Put sensor into plastic bag, breathe into it, wait for air to cool off, take foto, enjoy outrage. Cheap. Don't fall for it.

Yes, wtf. I couldn't access via mobile internet in Germany. With VPN it works though. Didn't know we had stuff like this in place

Einige Bauern sind überzeugt, mit Gewalt und Gülle eine Veränderung in der Politik zu erwirken.

Liegt es daran, dass viele keine Zeit für ein Bitcoin Studium haben?

Die Tools liegen vor Ihren Füßen, warum nutzen sie sie nicht?

Fragen über Fragen

Ich habe heute ein Projekt Angebot bekommen, bei dem drei Schnittstellen angebunden werden sollen. Drei unterschiedliche Anbieter für das selbe "Produkt", die als Liste in ein Angular Frontend geliefert werden. Der Nutzer kann dann daraus wählen und eines "buchen". Das ganze soll mitte Januar beginnen und bis Juli fertig werden.

Wenn ich damit Morgen anfinge, wäre ich bis Freitag fertig. Was zur Hölle soll ich bis Juli tun?! Ich frag mich gerade ob die in ihrer eignen Bürokratie ersticken, oder der Projektleiter die technische Problematik nicht hinreichend erklären konnte.

You are part of the problem.

Complacency is part of the whole

“Good times make weak men” cycle.

We are currently in the “hard times make strong men” part of the cycle.

People with your mindset are about to go extinct.

#4thTurning

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