SaberhagenTheNameless
Saberhagen The Nameless

XMR: 84mAJEgdihyRHkz8fGeuqgbQ19SuGeFWbhokJG2uMNMwTkDyoyQ3H7BijQNwSriSp9hHfaRGZYpCuKvHJwTer8av845U9py

SimpleX: https://smp17.simplex.im/a#R1eFufRtZcsq_c7drIpiHLhdNGaUd_lSEjW1yMY-IvY

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2026-07-02 08:09:24 UTC

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Well yea isnt' it obvious?... it's working right now even when the mempool is empty because there is still a block subsidy
1. Using drivechains is optional though. People who don't trust it can completely ignore it. They never have to expose any of their funds to it and can continue using on-chain, lightning, ark, ecash, etc. Bit of irony considering the last three have a lot more trust assumptions than drivechains, but people are still okay with them.
2. You won't literally have to wait 3 months to get your coins if you don't want to. You can swap with other users on-chain or use services like Boltz that there will surely be a market for like every other coin. I think there is even a drivechain for decentralized exchanges already.
3. Honestly, I don't really have a strong opinion on this. It's kind of already shitcoinified isn't that the whole contention with BIP110 vs Core right now? At least with drivechains the incentives push people to do that off the L1. Most people already associate Bitcoin with crypto in general and use them interchangeably.
4. True
I don't think drivechains will likely happen either.

2026-06-30 10:33:25 UTC

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It is kind of parasitic in that way too since transactions happening on lightning don't pay miners transaction fees to secure the blockchain. If most transactions are supposed to happen on lightning in the future, and block subsidy is going away, who is going to pay miners?
Lightning works for now, but a Drivechain future seems more symbiotic and sustainable.

2026-06-20 22:28:46 UTC

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VPN, AI, eSIM, sms verification, email alias, note app, food, donations to foss projects...use to buy ammo as well but the website no longer exists.

2026-06-19 13:13:32 UTC

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My point was you also seek privacy in the coinjoins and no-kyc ways you get Bitcoin. But I wouldn't say youre just a hiding rat by doing that. I would say it's smart of you to do when your adversary is powerful and isn't going to play fair anyway. The same way firearms give someone an asymmetric advantage against someone physically stronger.

2026-06-19 06:27:43 UTC

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I don't even necessarily disagree with everything you're saying, but if the privacy Monero provides is like "rats hiding under the floorboards" and "Bitcoin is for people who are fed up with hiding and want to overthrow the system." then why are you talking about no-KYC and coinjoins (means to achieve more privacy)?
Why is the Bitcoin community always seeking methods for increasing privacy whether that is lightning, ecash, liquid, etc?
Your argument would be stronger if you just admit privacy is essential (even if you don't agree with it being at the base layer)

2026-06-13 13:47:32 UTC

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This is so you don't link different identities and activities together that you may not want connected. If you use the same address everywhere it's pretty obvious that you're the same person.
But for payment targets on your public profile it doesn't matter

2026-06-13 07:31:26 UTC

"The impact of recent LLM releases on these security fixes cannot be overstated. LLMs assisted in identifying several of the vulnerabilities disclosed here. DarkFi is fortunate to be preparing for release during a new golden age of LLM assisted security research. Every bug found today strengthens the protocol for tomorrow.
Here's a detailed summary of the findings and fixes:"
https://dark.fi/insights/testnet-v3a-r1-reset.html

2026-05-25 14:07:33 UTC

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I also think, just say we concede for the sake of argument that a fixed supply would be better in theory, tail emission has a much stronger argument for cryptocurrency since mining is *required* to secure everyones coins and ability to transact. Without the incentive to mine none of it works.
Contrasted to the physical world where current owners of gold and ability to transact would be unaffected if gold miners just stopped mining.

2026-05-25 09:42:05 UTC

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>"An item being "one-of-a-kind" (scarce) does not inherently make it valuable if it lacks utility or liquidity..."
Ok. You seem to already understand that comparing the supply of the two alone doesn't necessarily make something valuable because it completely ignores the other factor of value: demand. You can't control demand. Value is subjective.
>"Also, there is a difference between coerced utility (the USD, which you are forced to use for taxes) and voluntary utility (Bitcoin)..."
Not sure where the disagreement is then.
Bitcoin/Monero/gold mining requires work, is open to anyone, and acceptance is voluntary. Sound money.
Fiat inflation requires no work, closed to a centralized group, and acceptance is based on coercion. Not sound money.
>"Sound Money is not solely about having a fixed supply; it is about having a supply that cannot be manipulated by central authorities or protocol....
>"Tail emissions (as found in Monero) introduce a perpetual dilution of the supply introduce a perpetual dilution of the supply, which (regardless of the technical rationale) is a deviation from the absolute scarcity that is a necessary prerequisite for a "hard" asset that can compete with the USD long-term..."
Immediately go on to contradict your first sentence with the second one 😂
You mean a hard asset like gold? The thing with perpetual dilution of supply that has a larger mcap and network effect than Bitcoin? Money for thousands of years?

2026-05-24 06:53:06 UTC

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Scarcity fallacy. Something can have a fixed supply but have less demand than something with continuous supply i.e. one of a kind artwork that no one wants for VS gold with constant inflation.
If you think network effects and merchant acceptance win idk why you're a Bitcoiner. USD blows it out of the water. And way more people are storing value in gold so it doesn't win there either.
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Scarcity-Fallacy

2026-05-24 06:10:21 UTC

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Can you make it render a QR code of the address when clicked?

2026-05-20 11:23:01 UTC

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Was asking @npub133v…fx0e

2026-05-20 10:07:56 UTC

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How tf can anyone tip you in Monero without a Monero address in your profile? lmao

2026-05-19 05:49:13 UTC

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Last time I checked that wasn't true, but maybe that changed. Even so, I'm pretty sure Spark Operators can see everything. My main point was that Spark requires greater trust than lightning and on-chain. Just letting you know if you didn't.

2026-05-18 10:39:33 UTC

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Spark has greater trust assumptions than on-chain and even lightning FYI. Probably good enough for 21 sat zaps though lmao. Also, current privacy is as bad as on-chain the public can look up transactions (with the exception of maybe cake wallets implementation)
https://www.bitcoinlayers.org/
https://sparkscan.io/
https://reneaaron.github.io/spark-lnaddress-doxxer/

2026-05-18 08:04:28 UTC

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I think perhaps the dude above means simply integrating a Monero address on your profile/notes to receive donations (only the donater and you would know the transaction happened though)
If you're broadcasting the tx key with the transaction to show the details all over nostr that would be entirely different and you're right that would make no sense

2026-05-18 07:22:35 UTC

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We can be retarded, but he's saying this mockingly lmao

2026-05-17 07:01:35 UTC

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You living under a rock bro?
https://nostr.download/56dc5fbda5274bca67d5e0fa5469dda74666d442b34b749b1902ef0b8f2dd73d.mp4
https://nostr.download/18b0355bb15e57d008fee1a490bedec2046444927fea6e4e6c82fc11a76feb4e.mp4
https://nostr.download/b9eb6810076378fc8331e91ff1f1fbb6c6fdbb7d049cf4511f81b5af60464398.mp4
https://nostr.download/dc53a569d1c30e2a2e6d9d0d4478ee171d0479f0d75aee5c52d2c28fbe727698.mp4
https://nostr.download/ee626eb0c8f24ca7df483de4b53be028b6e149ee1a45844ed70a1c835852ee4f.mp4
https://nostr.download/0d659e6f00c0ae73fa799b02310cf6b7ac5840396aa2a9c5c6e1750f87d3c119.mp4

2026-05-10 11:40:41 UTC

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KYC isn't about what happens to the coins afterwards. It's about a list showing you bought X amount of coins on Y date being tied to your real identity that governments and criminals will know (this info will leak eventually it always does - just search all crypto exchange data breaches for this year alone). You can't "unKYC" by coinjoining or swapping to Monero. Does nothing to erase that list.
Goodluck convincing the state and criminals that "there is no way to prove that I control those sats anymore". Doesn't matter if it's true or not. They aren't going to believe you. You're guilty until proven innocent. You're now a target.
https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md

2026-04-20 12:15:19 UTC

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https://nosmero.com/

2026-04-04 04:26:10 UTC

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Even if liquidity wasn't a factor nation states have the luxury of doing what they want with impunity for the most part so don't really care about privacy

2026-03-26 06:52:44 UTC

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@nprofile…xlvn

2026-03-24 07:40:12 UTC

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FYI if you run and connect to your own LWS you're not trusting anyone with your privacy and have no sync time. I havent tried it myself yet but @npub1nu7…ndfa has:
https://nostrudel.ninja/articles/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp8euwghzsxupay6z7ku9f58mltj94q5vv2ykt5fyywzw2sxek9efqyvhwumn8ghj7mrfva58gmnfdenhyetvv9ujucm0d5hszxrhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3ksctfd4sju6twvehj7qq4x3gx7dz3varnjj6n09thq5rjw3xx7tfdv57uz4x0

2026-03-20 10:08:33 UTC

"Both Monero and Tor use Ed25519 elliptic curve cryptography. A Monero public spend key is mathematically identical to a Tor onion service public key. This means anyone can compute a deterministic Tor onion address directly from any Monero address.
Each MoneroDM instance runs a Tor onion service computed from the wallet's Monero spend/view keypairs. To send a message, MoneroDM computes the public onion address of the peer from the given Monero address."
https://monerodm.org/

2026-03-20 09:12:54 UTC

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The "Electronic" in "P2P Electronic Cash" already excludes physical cash
Can't send physical cash over the internet, instantly, and to anyone on the planet
Lightning privacy is too convoluted for most users. Most they can hope for is traditional bank level privacy (bank sees everything, public cannot). It's pretty good if you know what you're doing though.

2026-03-14 05:38:32 UTC

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#nevent1q…2aec

2026-03-13 06:45:41 UTC

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Anything we use criminals are going to use. Can't stop that with anything in life especially in open and permissionless systems (which is itself a defense for everyday people against even more powerful criminals). Overwhelming majority are normal users though.

2026-03-12 06:04:00 UTC

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Yea admittedly the UX for this stuff isn't quite there yet if you're used to exchanges. Trocador might be the easiest, quickest, and cheapest to use among these, but you're trusting a single swap provider not to freeze your funds during the swap (although they rate the chance of that happening for each swap provider). Eigen is probably the most trustless method followed by bisq/retoswap/robosats (because it's a multisig so you're relying on cooperation from arbitrators if something happens). Never had a problem with any of them myself though.
Here is the latest news about Thorchain adding XMR from a few days ago. Basically they're hoping to get it out sometime in 2026 but it's privacy properties and multisig makes it a little more complicated than other blockchains to implement:
https://xcancel.com/THORChain/status/2030831688532762713?s=20

2026-03-11 06:55:17 UTC

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I don't think it's a question of understanding. It's now normie because its in the awareness of the masses. Normies know what Bitcoin is more than ever even if it's just in a vague way and might even have some on an exchange. If you mentioned any other cryptocurrency they likely would have no clue what it was.
That doesn't mean all Bitcoiners are normies though.

2026-03-11 05:51:57 UTC

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Hey @npub1ge0…jcs3 think you can help him out?
If you can't find an answer on here I would recommend going to the Monero group on SimpleX and just ask the group in general. I'm sure someone will have an answer for you.
https://smp4.simplex.im/g#YdVKQcI2JIZuTzfFlQfhNg-SnNaxA73sBH1A9YY4vqE

2026-03-11 05:26:54 UTC

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Do you want fiat to XMR? Or crypto to XMR?
Fiat to XMR:
-Retoswap (Haveno)
-XMRBazaar
Crypto to XMR:
-Trocador (Almost any crypto to XMR. Simple to use swap aggregator)
-Bisq (BTC to XMR. Simple enough but you migh have to wait for someone to take your offer if you don't like any of the current rates)
-Retoswap (Crypto to XMR. Same as above)
-Robosats (Lightning to XMR. Same as above)
-EigenWallet (BTC atomic swaps. Simple to use. Fees aren't the cheapest, but also not crazy either)
All are no KYC.
Thorchain and SeraiDEX are also on the horizon for easy to use crypto to XMR swaps just something to keep in mind for the future.
https://retoswap.com/
https://xmrbazaar.com/search/buy-exchange/
https://trocador.app/
https://bisq.network/
https://eigenwallet.org/
https://learn.robosats.org/docs/quick-start/
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange&categories=aggregator&currency-mode=or&currencies=xmr

2026-03-10 06:53:06 UTC

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Yea still a lot to be desired, but to be fair they're still new and in uncharted territory. Right now my expectations are tempered because of that.
I'm a fan of what they're trying to do and still excited to see whats down the road though. Sure it will improve over time just have to be patient.

2026-03-09 01:54:23 UTC

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Sorry I just saw this. Sent you a message

2026-03-08 11:33:19 UTC

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I tried it with two new freshly signed up nostr accounts on different devices and it worked without a problem. Not sure why yours isn't. Try restarting and sign up with a fresh account instead of using this one? Just for troubleshooting purposes. I'm curious if it will work

2026-03-08 11:12:46 UTC

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Sure I just sent you a message did you get it?

2026-03-08 09:23:51 UTC

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Weird 🤔

2026-03-08 07:31:44 UTC

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Better at what?
Both have confidential txs. Monero adds one time stealth addresses and ring signatures in addition to obscure the transaction graph (Liquid doesn't). Monero wins that hands down and soon to have full chain membership proofs to completely hide it. I don't think Liquid even has plans to improve privacy afaik.
Liquid daily transactions are significantly less so it's anonymity set is much smaller.
Liquid has no p2p market presence. Not really used anywhere.
Both have low fees.
Liquid requires permission from a federation to peg out.
All Liquid really has going is it's value peg to Bitcoin if you held for the long term (several years). But if I'm only holding and not using why not just hold actual Bitcoin? Short to medium term performance of Monero vs Bitcoin has been a toss up.

2026-03-08 01:59:20 UTC

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Here lets test it add me and send me a message
https://files.sovbit.host/f76562ad30120e99032d0ceee3de24a8b75e047f5696e83642544fa0abeb723f.png

2026-03-05 07:38:57 UTC

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Spark still has certain issues around it the most obvious one being privacy. I'm hoping that will improve over time. It will always have different trade-offs to Monero because of it's architecture, but the trust assumptions seem an improvement over fully custodial Lightning without sacrificing UX
Technically Spark is a statechain, not Lightning, but that's abstracted away so that it feels indistinguishable. Been playing around with it and interacting with Lightning through Spark is actually pretty damn smooth so far ngl

2026-03-03 10:09:46 UTC

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Privacy, low fees + straightforward to use in a sovereign way VS Lightning

2026-03-03 07:00:32 UTC

https://blog.cakewallet.com/lightning-is-finally-here/

2026-02-27 08:14:49 UTC

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What about Bisq?
Only options in link below afaik. If you can't find anyone selling for your payment method make your own offer and wait for someone to take it (hours to days)
You can also look for a crypto ATM near you with no/minimal verification (burner email/voip number) and pay with cash, but you'll probably get killed in fees
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange&currency-mode=or&currencies=fiat&currencies=cash&min-score=7
https://coinatmradar.com/

2026-02-27 06:19:00 UTC

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Same. So many topics covered it's hard to digest it all in one go 🤯

2026-02-27 06:16:08 UTC

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I relistened to that Bitcoin Takeover episode you linked the other day with Voskuil and John. Great conversation!

2026-02-27 06:08:30 UTC

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https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Bitcoin-Labels

2026-02-26 09:10:39 UTC

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If you value lower fees over quicker trades, I don't think there is really any other way besides making an offer and waiting. Seems like an inevitable trade-off. I don't mind waiting days for someone to take a trade but that's just me. Hopefully Serai and Thorchain will bring more liquidity and cheaper fees should follow.

2026-02-21 11:24:20 UTC

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https://monstr.land/

2026-02-20 06:41:20 UTC

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Many ways to get ahold of Monero. For most it's probably simpler to buy a different major cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Litecoin from an exchange and swap using Trocador or another swap provider. Or you could buy it directly with Retoswap/Haveno without KYC.
https://trocador.app/en/
https://retoswap.com/
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange&categories=aggregator

2026-02-17 08:05:17 UTC

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Same lmao

2026-02-17 06:43:32 UTC

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You would think

2026-02-17 06:22:45 UTC

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Users should be aware that doing this is great to save on fees but terrible for privacy

2026-02-15 06:40:04 UTC

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It hides amounts and addresses on-chain. A lot better privacy than the vast majority of blockchains, but it doesn't do anything to hide the transaction graph for an active adversary monitoring the mempool (which you would have to assume) like ring signatures, shielded zk, FCMP does
I don't think there are any plans to use MWEB on Bitcoin but it would be relatively trivial to implement since Litecoin has an almost identical codebase
MWs real strength is it's scalability via "cut-through" though. I think the whole history is like a few hundred MB. The privacy it offers is kind of secondary and a consequence of that. Really good privacy but not the best when compared to other stuff out there right now.
Imo if the goal is private transactions Bitcoin should adopt something like shielded pools on Zcash (which was pretty much made for Bitcoin). It would be roughly as easy to implement, superior privacy to MWEB, preserves the 21 million cap with turnstiles, and it's optional so those who don't trust it wouldn't have to touch it. Scalability is not nearly as good as MWEB though. Shielded client-side validation (Shielded CSV) is another good option from what i understand.

2026-02-15 06:03:15 UTC

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When does the new cake UX drop?

2026-02-15 06:01:20 UTC

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That's all a matter of what your goal is. Just like Bitcoin is "flawed" if you're looking for no fuss private transactions. No single chain or layer can optimize for everything.

2026-02-14 05:45:15 UTC

Interesting new Monero wallet
https://monero.one/

2026-02-09 11:33:18 UTC

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With private channels your counterparty can see your node pubkey, onchain UTXOs used to fund the channel, and it's balance. If you trust everyone you're opening channels with, and don't care that they can see that info, I suppose it doesn't matter. But for transacting with strangers it does. It's a trade-off for both.

2026-02-09 08:30:54 UTC

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https://xmrbazaar.com/
https://monerica.com/
https://stacker.news/items/878707#where-can-i-spend-monero

2026-02-09 08:28:02 UTC

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Tienes razón. Pero no se trata de una cosa o la otra. Existe un subgrupo de personas interesadas en la privacidad que no tienen los conocimientos técnicos ni el tiempo para leer una guía de 100 páginas sobre cómo proteger su privacidad correctamente en Bitcoin, como sí lo hacemos nosotros.

2026-02-08 06:05:05 UTC

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"El problema con las aplicaciones de mensajería cifrada es que, si se tiene un buen conocimiento de PGP, se puede usar este protocolo y mantener una privacidad total. Esto hace que todas las aplicaciones de mensajería cifrada queden obsoletas."
¿Entiendes el problema? Básicamente, estás diciendo que el 99,9% de las personas que de otro modo optarían por la privacidad nunca la tendrán. No harán todo lo necesario para conseguirla, ya sea por falta de conocimiento o por la incomodidad que implica.

2026-01-28 05:17:52 UTC

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Not that I know of 🤔

2026-01-23 05:06:50 UTC

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Even when using it perfectly onion routing has plenty of flaws. And there are many differences between how routing works on Tor vs Lightning that are detrimental to privacy. You can get defensive and pretend they don't exist if you want.
https://github.com/Attacks-on-Tor/Attacks-on-Tor

2026-01-23 04:54:13 UTC

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No one is talking shit calm down

2026-01-22 10:49:57 UTC

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If you don't care about privacy weaknesses of something youre using, like others knowing your balance, nodes being able to see amounts passing through them, or the fact that merely 1% of nodes own 99% LN liquidity and the impliciations of that, you shouldn't care I guess

2026-01-22 06:05:48 UTC

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It is a trade-off for sure. Probably an unavoidable one.
In Moneros case increased transactions mean node runners pay (in storage and bandwidth cost -> affects decentralization) less people willing to run nodes. In Bitcoins case limited blocksize mean users of the network pay in transaction fees.
The way I look at it is if the network is too expensive to use those users aren't going to run a node anyway (who is going to run a node for a network they can't afford to use or don't use often?) which also affects decentralization. Both arguments are valid imo. Maybe there is a balance or a better solution will be discovered down the road.
And about Pubkey yea it's fairly small and I'm not on there often but think it has a lot of potential still. Maybe more people will use it once it isn't invite only anymore 😅

2026-01-22 05:49:33 UTC

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The blocksize grows or shrinks based on median number of transactions is pretty much the gist of it. There is a penalty against miners for increasing it too fast and a short, medium, and long term formula for how it works but that gets into the technical weeds.

2026-01-22 05:34:14 UTC

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Every node on a payment route can see amounts. Additionally, you must entrust the confidentiality of your funds to a third party (LSP) or counterparty (your channel peer). Not to mention the terrible interface and limitations when using it. Lightning and Monero will always have different compromises due to different architectures.

2026-01-22 05:28:17 UTC

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Fees will always remain relatively low on Monero because of dynamic blocksize. But I do think ecash has it's own unique benefits for a different use case like micro transactions, no public blockchain, instant and offline payments, etc

2026-01-20 05:56:36 UTC

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Probably timing and amount analysis
Pretty trivial for anyone monitoring the chain if they see for example 1.52334 BTC move once then shortly after another address moves the exact same amount minus fees. High likelihood it's the same user. There was a recent example of this with a Zcash whale moving from transparent address to shielded and back.
You can use Monero to break links, but it takes a bit more consideration than a simple swap back and forth (break into different amounts on the swap back, swap at different times, different IP addresses or Tor, etc)
https://x.com/emmettgallic/status/2007137382337040835

2026-01-19 06:28:01 UTC

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Lightning leaks payment amounts to every node on a route and has no receiver privacy
Both have their flaws

2026-01-18 04:20:01 UTC

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https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Scarcity-Fallacy

2026-01-16 05:30:56 UTC

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Yep. This is a good analogy of the relative difficulty and tedium of using LN. I rather just use my hands to eat bro.

2026-01-16 05:23:30 UTC

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Kind of dumb that ones use of a tool (or not) is based on the behaviour of a few users of that tool. If that was the case we wouldn't use anything. But I can understand the annoyance.

2026-01-16 05:17:12 UTC

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It's called Garnet but it's severely out of date
Heres a couple newer ones. They're not apps though:
https://monstr.land/
https://nosmero.com/

2026-01-15 05:47:16 UTC

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Not sure I understand. Ok a handful of mint runners will have self-custodial ecash. Then who are those users you're accepting to your mint to build up your crowd to hide among? You're their custodian which circles back to my initial point.

2026-01-14 05:32:08 UTC

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The only honest discussion is about trade-offs. Everything has trade-offs including Bitcoins transparency.

2026-01-14 05:28:14 UTC

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Ironically a Monero bro helped fix a flaw in the original border wallets

2026-01-14 05:25:03 UTC

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Show the whole chart
#note16vv…pnd8

2026-01-14 05:17:46 UTC

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Running your own mint defeats the whole point of having a large anonymity set of users to hide among.
Using someone elses mint means you give up on self-custody. Different use case from Monero.

2026-01-11 05:50:45 UTC

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Exactly Qubic couldn't sustain it. Even during the attack you just had to wait for more confirmations.
My point was that for example Foundry alone could selfish mine Bitcoin already and it would be the same situation as Qubic and Monero. They have about as much hashrate as Qubic had at it's peak as with Monero. Just because they haven't done it yet doesn't mean they don't have the ability to. Incentives make it unlikely, but selfish mining inverts incentives. It's more of an economic attack.

2026-01-11 02:57:04 UTC

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You need those confirmations because PoW is probabilistic. Any entity with a large share of hashrate, even if it's less than 51%, can selfish mine and force block reorgs on any PoW coin. Their successful attempts increase the more hashrate they have, but it doesn't require anywhere even close to 51% to start disrupting the network.

2026-01-03 03:29:59 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/@Anti_Moonboy/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-AcamOLK88
https://odysee.com/@MoneroMatteo:b?view=content

2025-12-29 03:33:12 UTC

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Notifications changed in a recent update. I don't like it either.

2025-12-28 05:06:07 UTC

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It's a side effect of PoW which is probabilistic thats why you have to wait for confirmations. They can happen unintentionally. You don't need a majority of hash power for a reorg to happen either. Though the more hash power an entity has the more likely it happens.

2025-12-28 04:59:46 UTC

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In that first video he also says:
"Your average Monero person is much more likely than your average Bitcoiner to value: privacy, freedom, cypherpunk values, not bootlicking politicians, etc"
You can also still hold Bitcoin and have a small stack of Monero for spending privately. It's very likely you still use fiat or have other assets that aren't Bitcoin. Same concept but for Monero.

2025-12-28 04:48:55 UTC

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Easiest way is probably swapping some Bitcoin for Monero using an aggregator like trocador.app
Or p2p using Retoswap, Bisq, Robosats, or Eigen wallet (atomic swaps)
https://retoswap.com/
https://bisq.network/
https://learn.robosats.org/docs/quick-start/
https://eigenwallet.org/

2025-12-25 03:24:45 UTC

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You can have NGU in IOUs completely beholden and surveilled by custodians. But the ideal would definitely be both NGU and FGU. I think you and Hanshan would probably agree with that.

2025-12-25 03:19:13 UTC

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Retoswap or Bisq probably
https://retoswap.com/

2025-12-21 03:03:42 UTC

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Looks like good times

2025-12-18 08:46:31 UTC

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I don't get why people freak out over something with less annual inflation than gold (and currently less inflation and circulating supply than Bitcoin for that matter)

2025-12-18 08:22:29 UTC

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Oh I thought it was p2p electronic cash

2025-12-18 05:41:45 UTC

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How do I send physical cash over the internet

2025-12-15 05:58:41 UTC

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Signal would be Monero in that example though. It's built in by default and users don't even have to think about it.
Manual PGP over texts would be coinjoining or using lightning privately
You're right a lot of people don't care maybe even most. But there is a subsection that care but can't get over the technical hurdles (or can but still shoot themself in the foot by making mistakes that wouldn't otherwise be possible to make)
All government has to do is threaten you or your family legally or physically. I'm sure most would give up their coin if they were facing down decades behind bars or worse.

2025-12-14 08:50:32 UTC

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If privacy isn't built in by default very few will use it privately. Too much friction and potential pitfalls.
Who uses PGP over email or texts? Vanishingly few.
Transparency might be a strength in one way, but on the other hand it is also a major gift to it's adversaries

2025-12-14 02:11:41 UTC

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Cada nó em uma rota de pagamento sabe o valor que está sendo transferido. Com o Monero, os nós não conseguem ver os valores. Boa tentativa, porém.

2025-12-13 04:36:29 UTC

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Como o quê?

2025-12-13 04:13:46 UTC

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Another option is buying from crypto ATMs, but they're usually quite expensive and have limits on how much you can buy without KYC
https://coinatmradar.com/

2025-12-13 04:10:15 UTC

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Bisq, Retoswap, and Robosats are probably the most popular ways to get Bitcoin/Monero using fiat without KYC
If you already have Bitcoin and want some no-KYC Monero you can use the above three too. Or for a quick swap you can use an aggregator like Trocador.app
A third way is selling good and services on https://xmrbazaar.com/

2025-12-11 05:43:42 UTC

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I'm not sure it's true most Bitcoiners hate Monero. Many explicitly say they use it, or at least appreciate it even if they don't use it. I'm sure there are plenty of Bitcoiners that are closet Monero users too and just aren't public about it.
#note1sj2…n5vl

2025-12-08 03:50:20 UTC

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Honestly what's the difference? Using Monero is voluntary just like interest from lending and borrowing.
If you don't like the interest don't take out the loan. If you don't like Moneros tail emission don't use it.

2025-12-07 03:17:23 UTC

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https://xmrbazaar.com/