Last Notes
much better than “nostriches” that’s for fucking sure
I like what Anna’s Archive is doing, but frankly they never have the books I want and Z-Library always has them indexed first. Also Z-Library has the world’s most useful fulltext book search, their entire library indexed for searching phrases. I have a number of research subjects I like to get updates on, not knowing what specific book I want. And Z-Library alone facilitates finding new works relevant to the subject matter! So I support them instead as my illicit book dealer. Incidentally they doing a fundraiser right now and they also take XMR!
http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/fundraising
still going to hospital with your dog?
https://monerovis.com/
https://blossom.primal.net/5750707a3940e8bd53bc6020b6f87d479a49b884c3b751b91351c710c32aa80e.jpg
https://github.com/dnvie/MoneroVis
With Zcash, a passenger can unfasten your seatbelt without your consent.
menace to the fiat system
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https://monerotierlist.com/community
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19,395 peers observed from nodex.monerujo.io
recursive crawl
updated hourly
unresponsive nodes removed
https://monero.fail/map
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they're not actually producing anything useful, which is why they are clustering around government contracts
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Yea sadly many exotic fruits never make it to the markets. Papaya, Pina, Mango, Sandia - rinse and repeat ;) I live in the central pacific zone near Esterillos / Playa Hermosa.
"Math Blaster" will bluepill your children. What you want is "Math Rescue" for DOS, where one of the villians is a giant nose that has eyes and arms attached and steals digits from your parents' paychecks.
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because they are trying to get government gibs — it’s a stated government priority to make memory safe software
I tell people Bitcoin is freedom money even though it really is surveillance gold. :)
I heavily disagree here. The correct way forward is to increase privacy with clients connecting to a potential malicious node and reducing the potential impact the bad node could have.
Making connecting to a node harder isn't a great way to adoption.
Have sane defaults for normies and the potential for pros to perfect their privacy needs.
looks juicy 😉 i love acidity, need to see if someone sells one of those on a farmers market
I don't like the chain of interstitials. I prefer LibRedirect
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It was an honest mistake, this dude has done a ton of work with me at rates that are absurdly friendly. He’s a total bro and it’s a rounding in the project budget. I’m not going to nickel and dime anyone over an honest mistake. Things happen, lessons learned, mistakes are made, cost of doing business.
yeah I don’t think a deliberate scam site is going to send my crypto payment back
FYI to my nostiggas, now that XCancel is down again and it looks like permanently this time.
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Fuck I feel like a retarded boomer. I just got scammed. I was asked by one of my contractors to pay for a development server alongside a link. Not assuming they hadn’t done due diligence on procurement I put in the order. But they had asked fucking Perplexity to find the cheapest thing, and the scammer had done the whole “cater your scam site to do the clanker-SEO” and ended up with a recommendation list full of scams.
It was not a significant amount of money but it is the first time ever I have sent money to a scam in my life. There was a short chain of failures that lead me to this point. I wouldn’t have done it solo. Anyways point being “people you hire listening to clankers who have been injected full of scam sites” is absolutely a business risk that I just personally felt.
NO I CANNOT BE DEE MUGU. TELL ME I NE BE DEE MUGU. I WAS BE DA CHOPPA
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To those that have lost and frozen money in Liquid, note that this guy was the manager responsible for it. Look at the beak on this “Russian” Michael Minkevich.
Mark Karpeles, NVK, SBF, Alex Mashinsky all share his ethnicity and religion. Is this just a coincidence? Those who follow the rule of strictly excluding any assets intertwined with these people would have avoided all the major traps that have plagued cryptocurrencies with 100% accuracy. Embrace only Aryan finance, and you suddenly exclude 99.99% of all losses that have ever been incurred in the industry. Isn’t that strange?
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https://blossom.primal.net/d9553848bc5c3b79f3479fabc80c2f4d82d08400f691e802c4fb41f66e0ef395.jpg
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange¤cy-mode=or¤cies=xmr
When neuralink becomes a thing (it is already a thing - some unwitting people already have brainchips), people are going to start wondering why your average disobient individual went insane one day.
https://blossom.primal.net/78ff735766e8c8a3a76b9c0daf56e84b4651726adecba60fed0546ea4821dbe3.jpg
You might want look at these two:
https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/dispelling-monero-fud/#you-cant-audit-the-monero-supply
https://www.moneroinflation.com/
I honestly think Monero is nicer to handle than self-custodial LN, but you might be more skilled/capable than me.
And yes Monero UX still has some rough edges, but I hope that the synching complains are gone after the FCMP++ upgrade.
https://blossom.primal.net/f88d9b8b86a7c5854c87100e58a18fa6b86f47aaf5bf27fe01240c82929d0f8f.jpg
Years ago when I said “we need a nip”, it was when I wanted to add a yellow slut to the array of women in my room. But now it means I want a new feature in my posting software.
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Honest question: what makes Monero a shitcoin for you?
yes, chain membership proofs for public messages is actually good in the era of insane speech policing. We need a NIP
Also huge is that there were zero legitimate businesses on Liquid. Nobody was ever doing anything substantial with it. It was just a quasi custodial way to sit on a hoard of 4k Bitcoin with no fucking purpose, and grift VC money convincing people that it was going to lead to viable business in the future.
In contrast, Monero is a driver of a ton of commerce. It has more daily transactions per billion of market cap than any other top 20 coin. People are watching Monero. I am watching Monero and doing non-cached, live supply verifications as blocks come in because it is the cornerstone of my net worth.
Liquid had nobody whose eyeballs mattered because it was a useless maxi scam, much like ColdCard. Everything this entire clique produces and promotes causes people to lose massive amounts of money because they are all useless, subhuman parasites and scammers. The best thing Bitcoiners could do to revitalize Bitcoin is start putting bullets in their heads in retaliation.
The "🤯 maximalism" was about the amount of people voting against it.
I still don't get how anyone could seriously call Monero a shitcoin.
don't let the small hats get you down
Holy shit, that level of blind maximalism 🤯🙈
Also if you're a merchant and you're NOT accepting Monero, you're missing out 🤷♂️
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Yes, I agree, which is why I said “theoretically superior”. It’s definitely a big chungus of a codebase, and there are a lot less eyeballs on it than Monero.
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yes, I am not religiously bound to XMR. If something better came along that was a viable project, I would potentially switch to it. I’ve even touted Pirate Chain as having theoretically superior fungibility on Nostr, though unfortunately it is a very illiquid token without a lot of actual activity. But I like what they’ve done with it, and it is the best zk-Snarks coin, much better than Zionist Cash.
I would frankly have just preferred for Bitcoin to implement layer 1 fungibility like Satoshi wanted, so there wouldn’t need to be this gigantic ecosystem fragmentation, but Core is unfortunately captured by the machine.
Bradfitz himself has been extremely high integrity as a person in the past but yeah I am still not really trusting everyone who he employs with getting behind my firewalls. Regardless, Nostr fixes this! Nostr-vpn and FIPS.network both achieve the things that Tailscale does without having to trust third parties.
At least we Monero users have some data to backup our claim of being used ;) (spoiler: it's more than BTC&LN)
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Not every 'we/us' has a socialist connotation.
For talking about things it can be useful to group certain people/users by similar usage of stuff etc. No need to freak out about that.
Also funnily enough Monero is currently a better SoV than BTC ;)
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The important thing to understand is that Satoshi himself said of base layer ledger privacy “If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.” Exact quote!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg8637#msg8637
Bitcoin was still very young and Satoshi hadn’t taken the time to review the literature related to ring signatures and various zk proofs, but Monero’s fungibility was considered part of a minimum viable product in Satoshi’s mind. He even described a scheme in that very thread that is kind of a nascent description of ring signatures, “As an example, say some unpopular military attack has to be ordered, but nobody wants to go down in history as the one who ordered it. If 10 leaders have private keys, one of them could sign the order and you wouldn't know who did it.”
What the Bitcoin gang is doing is deliberately sabotaging Bitcoin’s ability to become money. That’s what is going on. They all know that Satoshi said this stuff but Saylor and the treasury companies all say that they don’t like base layer fungibility and that it would hurt corporate treasury compliance. Bitcoin maxis are anti-Bitcoin, and Monero is de facto that better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin. It is now de facto the real Bitcoin. Bitcoin can’t be money as long as these people are in charge, and is essentially no different than any shitcoin token. The only purpose of Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, to generate a greater fool out of pension funds and convince them to buy STRC or some ETF.
Have you provided something of value to people? Or why would you expect to receive money?
No risk
No privacy compromise
The curves behind FCMP++ are Helios and Selene
A cycle towering over Ed25519 so Monero’s existing keys and outputs carry into the new system