mcneb10

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Open source developer | Tinkerer | Privacy Activist | #Monero enjoyer
XMR: 46qeUbExxGSLT1pAkssG2LMBnLPsbiTNMcikp1B8PwFnShPkTRxt9c12Tcw2KaAagRTAju5j2NUYYNwCAp54zKMqBpoUZEg

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mcneb10@themcgovern.net

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2024-08-24 04:38:10 UTC

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They’re two different tools for two different tasks. Right now Zano’s liquidity is too low for it to be useful

2024-08-20 03:10:46 UTC

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I hope not. The message signing thing is mainly used to prove that you own an address from what I can tell. Someone can ask you to sign a random number or something and then verify that it was in fact signed by that address.

2024-08-20 01:47:48 UTC

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Oh, there’s a video showing the feature i somehow missed that does exactly what I said. Cool feature

2024-08-20 01:46:33 UTC

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Nostr should definitely import the culture of putting alt text on everything from fedi.
Also, I’m pretty sure scan and verify messages refers to signing messages with your cryptocurrency wallet’s private key

2024-08-20 01:45:14 UTC

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Image says:
- Scan and verify messages
- Sync Enhancements
- Bug fixes

2024-08-17 17:09:45 UTC

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What does AIPAC have to do with sentiments of people in the United States? And how is any American considered complicit when there’s nothing they can do?
I personally don’t like AIPAC at all, and I’m actually planning on running as a candidate in a third party that doesn’t accept donations like that some time far ahead in the future.
Also, the video you linked relies too heavily on hearsay, lies, and conspiracy theories. Remember, it’s antisemitic to conflate the actions of Israel with Jewish people

2024-08-17 15:05:36 UTC

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Asserting that 95% of American Jews and Israelis support those war crimes is insane. No one I know supports the murdering of innocent Palestinians.
Have you seen the massive protests in Israel? Obviously the issue is more nuanced than you think.

2024-08-17 00:14:54 UTC

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I’ll probably regret saying this considering how many idiots lurk around here, but as a Jew I can’t believe people believe this. It’s just an ethnic group. That’s it. Go home. There’s no secret cult, cabal, whatever the sheep with no critical thinking skills believe these days.
My family was dirt poor for centuries until they came to America during pogroms in Russia. All we ever wanted was to live in peace and preserve our culture.
The only “elite” is the people with the money and the power and that’s who should care about. They’ll do whatever it takes the keep the status quo, which is why we have them trying to put the blame on someone else.

2024-08-16 06:54:36 UTC

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All I had to do was `git push` …

2024-08-16 06:54:07 UTC

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I should have listened to myself the first 2 times

2024-08-16 04:34:53 UTC

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Damn it must be Opposite Day today

2024-08-14 18:05:24 UTC

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On the other hand, I think we do expect way too much from FOSS devs sometimes. They are almost always doing this work FOR FREE and rarely get any donations, so it’s frustrating when people are constantly demanding new features.

2024-08-14 18:01:13 UTC

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See GIMP vs Krita for example. GIMP’s (image editor) UI has one word to describe it. Awful. It doesn’t look like it was designed for humans.
Krita, while being designed as drawing program is still more usable than GIMP despite having slightly less features with image editing. It’s easier to learn and easy to figure out quite a bit on your own.
I don’t think you should have to read a manual to preform basic tasks in a GUI program like you do with gimp.

2024-08-14 17:56:24 UTC

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I 100% agree with the sentiment of funding FOSS designers and developers, but the culture also needs to change a bit.
I’m under the belief that if a piece of software is hard to use than it needs to be, it just sucks.
I’ll be blunt, from what I’ve seen as a dev, many FOSS devs are too focused on writing code in their own little world than evaluating how useful their software actually is. This is fine, but they shouldn’t expect people to be able to use it or become surprised when people suggest UI changes.

2024-08-14 15:56:59 UTC

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Imagine what a utopia we would live in if we used lua for web scripting instead of js

2024-08-14 15:55:17 UTC

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Nah. JavaScript is literally a crime against programming. It was hastily designed and has horrible choices everywhere. There are countless security vulnerabilities in JavaScript/NodeJS modules due to the inconsistent and unpredictable nature of the language.
Imagine the NodeJS devs: “Oh, look at this awful web scripting language! Let’s make it run on desktop!”

2024-08-14 02:47:49 UTC

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I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but can you please stop polluting cryptocurrency hashtags? Most of your posts aren’t related but are still tagged as such

2024-08-11 22:58:00 UTC

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I wrote a tool in rust to do it here: https://git.themcgovern.net/mcneb10/garnet-key-extractor
No idea if it actually works lmao

2024-08-11 22:55:31 UTC

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#monero spend keys can also be derived from a nostr private key. I found that Garnet does it in the source code. God bless elliptic curve cryptography

2024-08-10 03:09:25 UTC

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The cool ones self host their own prosody server and chat with like 20 other people who host their own XMPP servers

2024-08-07 23:35:36 UTC

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Quite ironic people are putting their heads in the sand. I guess the #nostr logo isn't an ostrich for nothing...

2024-08-06 19:56:51 UTC

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The default is classic but I switched to 4 recently. It matches my red phone well

2024-08-06 04:02:38 UTC

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Make sure to download the mainnet version of the app

2024-08-06 03:57:53 UTC

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Here’s a link to the releases page for garnet: https://github.com/retrnull/garnet/releases

2024-08-05 21:18:18 UTC

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Monal is your best bet for one that works and is open source. Also have a look at prose.org for an promising option in development

2024-08-05 19:52:14 UTC

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Yeah cryptocurrencies are some of the most complicated pieces of software in existence. Not only do they rely on large amounts of cryptography, they heavily rely on concepts such as economics and distributed computing. As a result many people don’t take the time to comprehend it. If they did they would realize that #bitcoin is just the first stepping stone in a long journey.
While the first step was important, we need to move on instead of trying to stay here and build L2 networks instead of fixing the actual platform

2024-08-05 19:44:06 UTC

Can we send the insane crypto bro investors back to Twitter please? If all these people care about is money and not the freedom and privacy, maybe they should use a centralized platform that doesn’t follow those ideals

2024-08-05 17:28:02 UTC

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Yeah the toxicity here probably drives people away from cryptocurrency as a whole by the millions. We need to separate the people here who want to exclusively make money and those who care about the principles

2024-08-05 17:20:52 UTC

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There’s a reason the IRS never made a bounty for Lightning and said it wasn’t an issue in their report from 2020.

2024-08-05 17:12:45 UTC

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The comment didn’t post. Keep in mind YouTube creators can delete comments on their videos…

2024-08-05 17:07:12 UTC

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I can’t see your Monero address because I’m not on garnet, if you could post it in the comments I can send some xmr

2024-08-05 16:58:36 UTC

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Exactly. I had another look at the block explorer and docs, then made a correction comment and came to the same conclusion

2024-08-05 03:23:21 UTC

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Yeah the listings on haveno right now are not ideal. There’s also xmrbazaar.com if you have something to sell

2024-08-05 02:33:09 UTC

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Maybe consider using garnet. It’s a fork of amethyst with monero tips baked in. You can get monero nonkyc through haveno or swapping other cryptocurrencies.

2024-08-05 02:09:52 UTC

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Can we get a Monero emoji while they’re at it?

2024-08-04 21:10:51 UTC

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The video you linked actually inadvertently explains why Monero is untraceable. I made a YouTube comment explaining why

2024-08-03 18:50:32 UTC

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Also, I’ll add something that’s in the original video. XKeyScore is a platform used to aggregate data from mass surveillance campaigns and use it to build profiles on individuals. It has been deployed on systems all over the world. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

2024-08-03 18:48:24 UTC

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While like 60% of this is true, the other parts are unconfirmed to dubious at best. Especially the part about breaking the Tor network. DYOR

2024-08-03 14:24:26 UTC

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Yes. But in this case I was just referring to the people who call it a shit coin unironically

2024-08-03 04:02:16 UTC

This is what happens when people actually use a currency #monero https://image.nostr.build/8cd8ff299a55674ca8c6e763cc8dad2d3883fb4f00e57e5d313529f86c51b7f2.jpg

2024-08-03 03:52:04 UTC

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Kind of crazy anyone calls it a shit coin considering how well it recovers from price dips. Also this image speaks for itself https://image.nostr.build/5c19702fd1d499c4ea15c85c7194e9c9bda3f25d01198d1e75c8199d66f87e8c.jpg

2024-08-02 01:57:53 UTC

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Elon Musk is like the human representation of this meme. #nostr supremacy

2024-08-02 01:02:03 UTC

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Yeah Bitcoin core is absolutely cutthroat. They ran a mass disinformation campaign when people proposed a hard fork despite community consensus including by Satoshi himself to bump the block size. It even had 90% miner consensus. Real coincidence when most Bitcoin core and affiliates worked for one company

2024-07-31 22:04:14 UTC

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Yeah, people definitely need to be less close minded here. Right now its basically just another echo chamber

2024-07-31 00:00:10 UTC

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I checked the stats and the hash rate isn’t below avg either, maybe it’s some very long streak of disfortune

2024-07-30 23:57:22 UTC

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Yeah payouts have been absolutely awful recently, no idea why. I didn’t get a payout for 4 days but was getting a ton of shares.

2024-07-30 17:22:15 UTC

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I’m more concerned with the outside perceived value of Bitcoin, how is that affected by a bunch of miners bailing? I guess we can’t truly know until it happens

2024-07-30 16:57:19 UTC

Question for #bitcoin, what will happen when ASIC mining becomes unprofitable?
Due to the SHA256 PoW of Bitcoin, ASICs were designed to mine Bitcoin more efficiently and now control basically 100% of the hashrate. I’ve calculated that due to recent halvings ASICs will soon no longer be able to break even and stay profitable.
What will happen to Bitcoin’s value after all the miners bail? Am I missing something?
#asknostr

2024-07-29 07:04:31 UTC

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Thanks!

2024-07-29 03:06:14 UTC

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No, I don’t use it either

2024-07-29 02:32:47 UTC

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Er, I made a typo. I meant to say garnet instead of amethyst

2024-07-29 02:19:29 UTC

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If you’d like to avoid the disaster of a website that is Twitter, you can replace the “twitter.com” or “x.com” with “xcancel.com”. yt-dlp can also download Twitter videos

2024-07-29 01:33:08 UTC

Does anyone know how to add a #monero address to the nostr profile so it can be detected by amethyst?
I also remember there was another nostr monero client that would detect the address in the bio, but i forgot the name. Does anyone actually use that?

2024-07-28 20:31:56 UTC

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And by "fix", I mean it just holds the transactions privately until the channel is closed (so the funds are actually moved). Before that you are just moving a bunch of IOUs around

2024-07-28 20:30:29 UTC

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The reason lightning fixes it is because it bypasses the blockchain, defating the purpose of a cryptocurrency's security in the first place. Also, this video doesn't even seem to mention Monero (checking the transcript) and this video is 6 years old. Monero has changed a huge amount in 6 years

2024-07-28 19:13:38 UTC

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My apologies, coracle decided to crap out

2024-07-28 19:03:25 UTC

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Alright, since you don’t seem to be learning by people telling you the same fact and correcting you over and over, how about you learn by doing.
I challenge you to trace the transactions associated with the #monero donation address in my bio. Good luck, you are going to need it. You’ll also need a quantum computer that doesn’t exist yet.

2024-07-28 05:12:58 UTC

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Every blockchain based cryptocurrency has a block explorer my guy. It’s just that with Monero you can’t see who’s sending money to who and how much

2024-07-28 04:47:26 UTC

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Have you taken anything from this entire argument? Please just read the Monero docs or look at a block explorer if you’re still confused

2024-07-28 04:42:43 UTC

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Correction: silent payments do obscure destinations and senders well, but if you don’t control at least one of the transactions inputs your privacy can be compromised by the sender. Silent payments still only obscure one hop in a transaction

2024-07-28 04:25:58 UTC

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I don't know how many times this has to be said, but Monero's privacy is better than Bitcoin. With Bitcoin silent payments, you are just obscuring a single step in a chain of transactions. Unless everybody uses silent payments, everyone can see where the money came from and where it went. Monero makes it impossible to see who received the currency and it's futile to try to determine who sent it based on the amount of possibilities. Unless privacy is on by default it's not going to work. See: Zcash

2024-07-27 20:31:16 UTC

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It is disingenuous to call stealth addresses the recipients address. They are addresses that are derived from the recipients address but can’t be tied back to the receiver except by the receiver themselves, so point 2 is basically a lie the way most people would interpret it.
Payment channels are not even a contender for privacy in comparison. Unless this new channel uses some technology im unaware of, it’s using Lightning’s centralized, easily monitored tunnels. No reason to put a bandaid on top of a already flawed system

2024-07-27 20:11:19 UTC

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1st point: true, 2nd point: completely false, 3rd point: true, every transaction has 16 possible senders. With the upcoming FCMP upgrade every transaction will appear as if anyone in the entire network could have sent it

2024-07-27 17:07:40 UTC

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My address in bio 😉😏

2024-07-27 04:18:44 UTC

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Yes, but all transactions are private so you can’t see the amounts or who sent or received the Monero.
There is one special case of coinbase transactions, where the network pays miners in new Monero. In that case the transactions are partially transparent to show the amount sent to make the total Monero supply transparent

2024-07-26 23:54:51 UTC

The #monero price yesterday for some reason:
https://image.nostr.build/5a801818d9e65680dba2cefb9e727a25c3267dc5823dd1e1240a6205db5584c9.jpg

2024-07-26 23:32:22 UTC

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That is the total supply in existence. It isn't really possible to know the total circulating amount of any given currency, as some gets lost over time

2024-07-26 17:28:37 UTC

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While I’m not really sure how mining interfaces with the kernel, I do know that xmrig (the best RandomX miner) runs faster as root because it can change kernel CPU and memory paging settings. The RandomX hash algorithm is specifically designed to run best on CPUs, so that anyone trying to make an ASIC would basically have to make a pseudo-CPU which is very expensive. These ASICS do exist but they thankfully don’t get better efficiency over the best CPUs yet from what I’ve heard.

2024-07-26 16:18:06 UTC

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I mean this is a bit of a pointless argument in semantics, but if Michael was referring to the total supply, circulating or not, you can see the total supply produced by mining for both Bitcoin and Monero. It’s essential that the total supply is available otherwise the value is meaningless.
As for the total currency in circulation, it’s impossible to tell for any currency. People with cryptocurrency have died and the private keys lost, same as how cash can be misplaced.

2024-07-26 16:07:00 UTC

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You cannot validate the total supply of #bitcoin in circulation either

2024-07-26 05:30:01 UTC

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There’s too much cool stuff to list here but have a look at the official website at https://getmonero.org. https://monero.garden is another introductory website. If you want a beginner friendly book that goes into depth about how monero works, have a look at mastering monero (you can download the pdf for free).
As for what the value is based on, the same as bitcoin: basically nothing. Just what people are willing to pay for it.
Besides privacy, the community is small but extremely dedicated and tight nit. Monero is also interesting because can be mined on CPU and is currently a good mining currency. The mining algorithm that it uses is cool because it works best on CPUs and makes ASICs unprofitable for now preventing centralization of mining (which has happened to bitcoin due to asics unfortunately)

2024-07-26 05:20:33 UTC

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Also, while Monero has much less tx volume than Bitcoin, it can at least accommodate changes in network usage with the dynamic block size

2024-07-26 05:17:28 UTC

https://tx.town/v/xmr-btc is a super cool page. It compares tx men pools of #monero and #bitcoin. The difference is night and day, it’s not even a contest. To people who say Monero isn’t scalable: have a look to your right

2024-07-24 22:43:36 UTC

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May Aaron rest in peace. We won't forget his martyrdom. I hope he's sharing the knowledge amongst the populace somewhere in heaven.

2024-07-24 14:55:13 UTC

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Forgive the pedantry, but wouldn’t it not be fully self-custodial if you are giving or storing your keys with another party? If they can sign transactions for you they can also sign transactions to steal from you

2024-07-24 12:38:05 UTC

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Can someone explain to me why this is good? Sounds like another custodial wallet.

2024-07-24 04:02:01 UTC

Been pretty slow on #monero #p2pool mini recently. Might be a good opportunity to get started and help the network via mining https://image.nostr.build/565141889475f7f591d18b49ce847c8873df4da265ece7f6176c2384d4ed9703.jpg

2024-06-17 13:07:32 UTC

Would the real fiatjaf please stand up?

2024-06-14 22:04:35 UTC

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I wouldn’t trust either. Lightning is built on top of a flawed system, adding faster transactions but reducing security. Bitcoin itself is too centralized due to high fees and ASIC mining.
Monero is the only currency that comes close to Satoshi’s original vision of a currency that is truly distributed and not controlled by any one group or entity.
Don’t let the rich get richer

2024-06-14 04:03:15 UTC

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Censoring sensitive content (such as private keys) by blurring might not be enough to prevent the original content from being recovered, so you should use a black box instead

2024-06-13 17:06:57 UTC

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Pro tip: under certain circumstances, censorship methods such as Gaussian blur can be reversed. If you want to prevent this, use a black box instead