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Im giving you a like even though i do like using lightning when i can
Everything doesnt need a microchip.
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 :)
#nevent1q…6c4v
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.
What if the problem is liberal white women? https://npub146pljh7ke4d60jfn3ycns5ptuetk0wz89jvd7devf5h48ejn50zsfq3u8t.blossom.band/a08c7b372bd74d566ba3d0a8e352acb0c8e1576dbf3996b71746e556d4100db7.jpg
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:
#nevent1q…eyej
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
https://i.imgur.com/iJh8fRv.jpeg
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no. The confirmation time of a single block is shorter than Bitcoin. The total time of all confirmations is high because people expect a lot more confirmations, because there is less proof of work backing Monero, so the number of confirmations you need to expect safety are much higher.
You can help by mining Monero, particularly on large bodies of computers that aren’t yours
Want to escape surveillance in your own car?
Buy a model from 2017 or earlier. Since April 2018, every new car in the EU must have a built-in SIM card (eCall regulation). Truly offline: pre-2010, no cellular module at all.
Normiecons getting banned from Twitter under the Elon regime lol
https://i.imgur.com/deBqB2V.jpeg
Appreciate you creating awareness for Stablecoin freezes - but is there a way to follow you without having to see 5 of those posts a day? I already got it, i use Monero :)
Yea sad, todays Bitcoiners are mostly low iq Religiots, unable to reason for themselves.
Satoshi would rotate in his grave.
They dont even realize that every single Monero user was or is still a Bitcoiner.
> it was raised by p2prights.org fund which supported multiple efforts not just Keonne and Bill's case
Also, I don't know anyone who donated there who did not expect that it was going to go to a federal criminal defense for Samourai. If you’re telling me that it has been spent on other stuff, that is literally exactly what I am alleging.
> - They were not even allowed to raise money, banned from bitcoin transactions, it was raised by p2prights.org fund which supported multiple efforts not just Keonne and Bill's case
So you claim. Which efforts? Their website only lists Keonne and Bill’s case. Can Odell please give us a complete accountancy of the funds and other projects, which are not visible on the website at all? Where did the money go? Whose pocket did it go into?
p2prights also says this:
> Potential for Success and Impact: We will assess the likelihood and scale of success in each case. Factors considered include whether other parties are capable of defending themselves, the unique position of the fund to offer support, the probability of legal victory, and the value of the legal precedent that success might establish.
Why did they choose to finance the people that hadn’t even gone to trial, through some sort of attorney that they personally know, without using known attorneys for computer crimes that have positive track records on appeal? Why didn’t they choose to fund the case of the guy who actually went to trial and will decide the law? Who was actively appealing on a case based on Bitcoin mixing and Bitcoin jurisdiction?
This website is basely, obviously fraudulent.
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO YOU PIECE OF SHIT SCAMMERS
> - A friend loaned Keonne about ~1MM which he said in a podcast he is in debt to, once again not "millions in their pockets"
Okay, if you say it all really went to a lawyer, who is this lawyer that p2prights funded that puts people millions in debt, claims a two million dollars in cash (1M from debt, 1M from community raising), and only signs a fucking plea deal? Who chose the attorney, and on what basis? Because there’s millions of dollars in play here and NOBODY CAN SAY WHERE THE MONEY WENT. Because it does *not cost two million dollars to plea*. Who benefitted? Who chose the beneficiary? Who are they affiliated with?
And a guy can say whatever he want on a podcast, it doesn’t mean it is true, especially when we are talking about millions of dollars that was raised for a federal criminal defense which *did not happen*.
sorry. Raised money. Past tense. The appeals panel heard the case in May:
https://www.edgen.tech/news/post/bitcoin-fog-appeal-tests-global-reach-of-us-law-before-3-judge-panel
Odell and the pack of crypto grifters raised absolutely nothing for the actual case that would decide the law. Bitcoiners gave two thousand dollars for Sterlingov, total. Not one fucking peep out of Odell and his fellow scammers for the guy that actually went to trial, did not plea out like a bitch, and is going to decide the law that we likely will all have to live with forever. From the same pack of scammers that shills for custodial Lightning products, for custodial Nostr trash like Primal. You people will doom Bitcoin with your shameless grifting and scamming.
They pled out. They did not fight. Roman Sterlingov has APPEALED AND WILL DECIDE THE LAW. You can nitpick over details, but it does not take 2 million dollars to do this defense. That is a heinous fucking scam. That you people whine and claim that they somehow didn’t get enough when they got a million fucking dollars for a plea deal while not a single one of you is raising money for Roman Sterlingov shows that you are *in on the grift*.
Where did the money go? A million fucking dollars for a plea deal? You guys burnt a million fucking dollars. Eat shit, whiners.
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I specifically do not use a smartphone. At all. I do not allow them on the premises of my estate, in fact, because they are frequently surveillance devices even in the hardware and I don’t have the time to figure out if someone’s phone is spying on me. And besides CLINK there’s no way to do Lightning on Nostr in a decentralized and private fashion. LNurls are inherently centralized, because they feature a domain name. I’ve been banned from services because their domain registrars threatened to revoke their domain if I was not kicked off before. If it doesn’t have a public key as the sole mechanism of identity, I am unlikely to use it. As far as LN goes (which I am not a fan of) I think CLINK is, bar none, the best implementation. But it requires an Android phone. I am on a Mac, and there is only Android Studio, which is awkward and I have to trust Google, or shit like BlueStacks, which is blatantly and openly by their own terms and code Chinese spyware. I am not enthusiastic about using either of these to emulate Android on my desktop environment. And I’m not going to start using phones where I sleep. So no Lightning for me. I think maybe you should listen to Saylor just once when he said “maybe you need a Monero”.
i use some of them but they are not important to me, there are alternatives and i can use those with the people i care about
so if I buy a krugerrand at spot with no fee, there’s no demand for gold? Absolute retard logic
Thank you, I am very hyped to receive less than a nickel
Monero implemented merge mining very easily for Tari and soon other chains. It wasn’t as difficult as is implied here. You can just have miners optionally resubmit their identical proof of work to other chains for extra rewards, this is how Monero and Tari accomplish it. This allows reuse of block solutions but miners have to submit to the second chain, but they can also just not do so but miss out on the second chain’s rewards (this, of course, requires that the second chain be using a separate token). But BIP301 is also a minor consensus change and is also completely reversible and doesn’t interfere with any other uses of Bitcoin. There’s all sorts of ways to accomplish merge mining. It’s not a huge deal.
The actual guy who created Lightning was actually pretty clear in interviews that it couldn’t actually do what people were claiming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnG5H62I7Ko
“Everyone’s like: ‘LN is the gonna be the best thing ever’. Wait, uh, [LN] can’t actually do that.” (43:20 // 27:50)
So I don’t think it was intentionally crappy. I think there was irrational exuberance in 2016 around crypto, there was a ton of hot money flowing around, and over the years a gigantic amount of investment was put into LN. Everyone was excited about LN when they first heard about it. It was an idea that is cool to think about in a time when even the most retarded crypto business got millions in investment. So Lightning got a huge chunk of this hot money, and now there’s people that committed their reputations to what was an interesting and compelling bit of theory but later turns out to not be a viable protocol at scale.
They weren’t malicious. They were good people simply wrong about something, but now they have pulled investment for years on the LN idea and don’t want to admit they were wrong. Not even to themselves. Because the amount of time, money, and reputation for Bitcoin that has been burnt on this is massive. $130M+ in capital and a decade of genius developers playing Herman Hesse’s glass bead game when they thought they were giving financial liberty to the whole world.
I earnestly feel for these people, and I know for a fact that they were not making something intentionally bad. Well, perhaps not at first. I think some of them know, at this point, and don’t want widespread merge mined sidechains to come along because they will actually work in a way that refutes LN, and it will damage their reputations and busineses.
Normal business owners are reporting in public 25% failure rates in the real world using Square. Is Jack Dorsey and incompetent idiot doing something very wrong? I am not as smart as Jack Dorsey, nor am I a billionaire. I do not think I could implement a better LN point of sale terminal integration than Square has. I don’t know if anyone could do better.
Maybe everyone reporting these major LN problems are liars in a secret conspiracy against Lightning. But otherwise, bartenders, baristas, and people serving food seem to have widespread problems using *the most deployed LN vendor software in the world* made by a *billionaire developer who has funded Nostr and Lightning extensively*. If Lightning is so complicated that only some fringe service virtually nobody beyond hardcore Bitcoiners on Nostr can use, maybe the protocol itself is flawed when you operate it at scale.
Bitcoin’s genesis block has non-monetary transaction data. Satoshi put it there. “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. Satoshi called Bitcoin a “distributed database” from the start. If you’ve ever looked through the raw blockchain it has always been full of posts and bible quotes and all sorts of stuff. Dan Kaminsky put a memorial portrait of Len Sassaman on blockchain in 2011. You people are complete newfags, Bitcoin does not have a “spam" problem, you are being led around by someone who knows better because he wants Patreon/Github sponsors gibs to supplement his 750k miner salary. He doesn’t care about Bitcoin, Bitcoin has always had non-monetary data, you people are fucking newfags. Bitcoin has the opposite of a spam problem. L1 fees are dirt cheap because nobody is using Bitcoin because you people drove every real world application of blockchains to other chains, and now they have the sustainably viable fee economies and Bitcoin only has giant venture capital bonfires.