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people aren't wash trading TRX-USDT as far as I can tell. You go outside of the United States, in most Eastern Europe for example, and people do not want Bitcoin at all. Lightning has turned them off of it completely, and for cash deals everyone wants TRX-USDT. There’s 10 places in my raion where I can change crypto to cash and all of them want a massive fee now to do Bitcoin. They don’t want the operational exposure to anything but TRX-USDT now, it is the sole ledger they want to interact with.
If you’re widely traveled you see this everywhere. People are using TRON massively for actual remittance and foreign exchange transactions. They are completely uninterested in Bitcoin after seeing a dozen LN wallets eat their time and/or money.
Monero has active sidechains (p2pool) and merge mining (Tari, others soon to come). If drivechain scales Bitcoin, it can also scale Monero in virtually the exact same manner.
I think this is historically and economically illiterate.
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eventually a single bitcoin will be able to buy the entirety of earth. Nobody will want food, water, real estate, or prostitutes. They will only desire sats.
completely false. Even when there was hard money, when everyone was using physical gold, equity, real estate, and optionality generated a superior return. Gold does not inherently pay dividends. Your vision of a financial system without debt contracts is hilarious, and ends up with a load of perverse incentives like Islamic finance. Because families need a roof to live under, and it costs more than an average laborer’s year’s income for land and construction of a domicile. It always has and always will. Collateralized debt contracts are an inherent externality of people’s needs being greater than their ability to pay for them, so there is a give-and-take between capital and labor. The only systems that argue against this are communist ones, and Bitcoin is not going to lead to a communist utopia.
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Does that replace the employment contract or just the requirement for the utility bill?
no, they just heavily restrict the distribution of sassafras oil because it became a drug precursor and regulating the supply of precursor is a relatively effective way of preventing domestic fabrication. Of course, that just means all the MDMA comes in on containerships from Asia or gets carted over the border from Mexico. We’re so much better off with spics and gooks securing the actual profit center of synthesis!
Safrole is the reason why authentic root beer is outlawed.
I swapped some litecoin for monero late last night and woke up to messages on signal from friends telling me bsx was hacked. Luckily, i swapped with a non-malicious provider. 🫨
Non KYC monero protects you.
Most privacy coins do in fact.
Pretending Bitcoin has a 100 years is hilarious. If it doesn’t have a sustainably viable economy based on real use cases in 100 years it will be worth nothing. Something else will have replaced it. Bitcoin has to address what people actually want to do with money if it wants to be money.
I want Bitcoin to be money. Most money is spent, in one way or another, on contracts. Notional amounts outstanding in all forms of contracts exceed the amount of currency. The bond market is greater than USD M1, for example. So is the notional amounts outstanding of interest rate swaps. And the value of equities. If Bitcoin is only used to buy coffee, it is not real money. It needs to be able to execute contracts in a trustless fashion to be the real basis of a financial system, and truly be money. Especially when it’s been made deliberately bad for doing retail business, as it is not private or fungible. Contracts were all that are left when you have a transparent ledger.
that's sassafras, not saffron. Sassafras contains safrole, which you distill, then convert to the next precursor, isafrole.
Perhaps so, but that’s not an argument. Bitcoin needed to be the basis of a new financial system, as per its creator’s desires.
Bitcoin doesn’t have the properties of money, due to the fact that Core refuses to adopt a private ledger via, despite Satoshi explicitly expressing saying that “a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible” if ring signatures/ledger privacy could effectively be implemented.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg8637#msg8637
Bitcoin is not fungible, it does not have the properties of money, so it cannot chase away “non-monetary” use cases. Because it doesn’t have significant monetary use cases anymore. The fee market is a ghost town.
Refusing a sustainably viable fee economy when you don’t have any other economy is far more retarded than I may be.
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for reference, on most days now, the volume of USDT on TRON alone exceeds the daily volume of Bitcoin. Fucking TRON!
Merge mined sidechains could have allowed all this stuff to happen gracefully, and all of this ecosystem could have been connected to Bitcoin, but now it is too late.
True fungibility protects everyone, from a tiny criminal minority to the honest masses.
Strip privacy from money and you don't stop crooks, you cage everyone.
wasn't that visibly a mistake though? And contracts are hardly a non-monetary use case. Right now more monetary usages of contracts are happening in alts because Luke and others aggressively chased away all the actually important financial businesses. All that’s left is people trying to pawn their bags off on pensioners
Everything doesnt need a microchip.
Im giving you a like even though i do like using lightning when i can
Nosmero
Nostr w/ Monero zaps
https://nosmero.com
Btcpaserver is great. I absolutely love when i find a merchant that set one up. Definitely become a repeat customer of them
Elon rugs again. I dont know how anyone can stand that government stool pigeon.
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Every night now I have been drinking saffron tea with a single petal each of karkadeh and jasmine. It’s the chillest feeling
Monero GUI 0.18.5.1 'Fluorine Fermi' released
https://www.getmonero.org/2026/07/08/monero-GUI-0.18.5.1-released.html
I only watch Strickland fights because he's clearly racist and hates women. But I won’t fucking watch some central asian mountain monkey zigger lover unless he’s beating them into the mat
"Many of us never played with shitcoins "
rofl :)
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Is Andy-BTC the chosen one, the real BTC, forever?
one day you will say the same about Monero :)
Good Riddance Lindsey.
Rest in piss you genocidal zionist cunt
Lol. I guess there was an inifnite inflation bridge hack on Polygon with Ghost earlier this month.
Im glad when they asked me back in December to integrate it into Meile i put it off.
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most people *do not care* if the payment is peer to peer or not. They want it to work well and not cause problems.
Look at the OP. He had a $5 payment jammed up. The CS graduate developer of the most popular Nostr client in the world is describing 30% failure rates with zaps. Custodial LN has become untenable because of regulators, noncustodial LN is completely unreliable when you get any significant number of people using it. It’s not working.
Bitcoin is now competing with Monero. Because Monero is banned in so many jurisdictions, nearly all of its value is because of its use as a medium of exchange and not speculative. In contrast, most of Bitcoin’s value comes with jerkoff treasury companies/Saylor types trying to convince pensioners to buy it. This is not sustainable.
If you want peer to peer payments, you have to have a payment network that will attract peers. Using LN as money has become garbage in nearly the entirety of the world.
yes.
for out of band verification, I have this npub on my steam account, which I’ve had for over two decades:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/weev/
I’ve also posted it in my profiles and signature on Cumtown and My Posting Career respectively, if you like fringe political humor forums.
> "is it 99.99% safe?"
>"Does it improve usability?"
if this is the standard, Apple Pay with a credit card wins every time
Its funny. I was thinking i needed a computer part two days ago and the first site i went to was Xmrbazaar to see if anyone had one listed.
It almost has become my first stop in the search for things.
Hey buddy, best of luck. My company made a small Firo donation the other day. I absolutely believe crypto was made for this sort of aid.
I 💛 Monero, but I also 💛 Pirate Chain
Why?
When i first heard about Pirate Chain in 2021 i scoffed at it, mainly because of the name. (Dont judge a book by its cover!)
After coming across it more often in 2022 and finally joining the community, i found out the community has the same Ethos as much of the Monero community and i fell in love.
It is worth noting that the Beam community is also similar in Ethos as PC and Monero. I feel at home in this part of the cryptosphere.
Monero has the biggest chance of succeeding, but my philosophy is that we are at war and you cant fight a war with an army of one.
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PLATNER FOR SENATE, RAPIST RIGHTS
Latest Steam Deck update requires me to use an HTTP proxy to function if I’m using Tor for some reason. No, they’re not blocking Tor nodes. If you have Tor itself open an HTTP proxy with HTTPTunnelPort in your torrc then it works fine.
Well, Core must be motivated to deossify somehow, and implement the features and respect the design decisions that were outlined by Satoshi.
I believe that the solution that fiatjaf and others seem to support (and myself as well) is drivechains, which will be demonstrated in the upcoming ecash fork. I am not absolutely sure that drivechains are the solution, many people have outlined concerns with the need for miners to participate in governance, but I am relatively sold. Regardless, Bitcoin has benefitted immensely from past controversial forks (it might not exist at all if Bitcoin Cash hadn’t found and magnanimously helped fix the inflation bug for everyone) and we should encourage any honest and decent man of good character that earnestly wants to fork Bitcoin to demonstrate new ideas and continue to improve the software in parallel to core.
You can also help by simply refusing to use anything that introduces centralization in cryptocurrency and warning others of the problems. This includes, to my eyes, LN, but others have disputed that point given that you can, in theory, have decentralized, noncustodial LN, but in practice less than 1% of people ever will do so due to the inherent qualities of the protocol.
Yes, Spark combines simultaneously all the negatives of both custodial and noncustodial services.
Noncustodial wallets introduce additional risks, in that people can lose their private key or have it jacked by hackers. The tradeoff was sovereignty. Spark retains these risks while introducing surveillance and censorship capabilities, meaning that users gain absolutely nothing for the risks imposed by noncustodianship. It’s worse than traditional bank account, where if your credit card gets jacked you report it to the bank and lose nothing, and if you lose your wallet you can go to the bank and get new cards issued and lose nothing. It is, in my mind, significantly worse in architecture than traditional finance.
well, yes it is national regulators, but it is also a protocol problem of LN, which forces people to custodial solutions:
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Honestly, I don’t really blame Strike too much, they’re basically just a bank and it is the Australian regulators that are the problem, just as UK regulators are responsible for the horrific screenshot above. But this is the end result of Lightning, where everything shifts to custodial garbage because there’s no decent way for normal people to run a Lightning node of themselves. If he received the payment on blockchain in a noncustodial manner than just saying it is his own money would be MiCA compliant. But custodians are regulated in a way that blockchains are not. And most normal people cannot reliably run a LN node, so Lightning payments become 99% custodial in reality.
The great thing about Strike is that it will make you think of the racial slur that it rhymes with when you interact with it
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Every time I see my name in an appellate brief for a case that has a good shot at justice I gleefully think FUCK YOU PIGS, TIMOTHY MCVEIGH DID NOTHING WRONG
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