Judge me by the people I avoid
https://image.nostr.build/930d276aba72df4e8957ee75d1eb942413c1bd5dd11351154a0d775c230a8b47.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=736x1230&blurhash=%5DCAAaa%7Eqxut6xuM%7CWBaxoft7D%25WBj%5BM%7BM%7BWBIUM%7BWBayM%7BM%7BM%7Bofofxuxut7WBWBRjRjj%5DfQWB%25MxuWBWBjsRjWBbHofs%3A&x=bdc6a742cb82f0239886d1c42f1469e71e608b0a1ef4adc28155bb0475bcacd0


me: monero is an awesome addition to bitcoin (it is), one for stacking, the other for private spending

the church of satoshi nakamoto of latter-day bitcoin saints:

https://image.nostr.build/201467dee3b429b7ae8dc42a8df002d6fa5d8f7bd997ece4f4c015bb4da2270d.gif#m=image%2Fgif&dim=360x360&blurhash=U7B%7By6JC00%7D%40MKIpPV-U%25N%24%23MxIo0Ls.%5EkI%40&x=7ca64596798d52d8d04e9a72fae20d32b7d94772c643af46a71cbdf5c551782f

lol. not saying this about everyone, love my bitcoin fam, but it needs to be said that the 'toxic btc cult' reputation seems well earned for more than a few of you.

it's generally the one's who just parrot blanket 'btc is the saviour, everything else is a shitcoin'  statements, don't speak with their own words, link to sources they don't really comprehend, think nostr is private, only recently learned why they need a vpn on the internet and don't actually understand how all this privacy stuff works.

harsh? yes. so have recent comments been. bring it. love the free speech.

again this is not for most of you #plebchain. most of you have level heads and still love bitcoin. i am an avid bitcoiner, but i don't drink the cool-aid and ignore it's shortcomings.

bitcoin is about freedom. privacy is essential for freedom. it is complicated to have privacy on a public ledger. bitcoin is an awesome store of value, but it needs a 2nd layer for greater privacy and to solve the fungibility problem. lightning is maturing. cashu is also maturing. monero solves the spend issue now with privacy baked in on a protocol level. it is currency. it's meant to be spent.

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro #bitcoin #monero


“The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process.”

Ludwig Lachmann
https://image.nostr.build/e24436fd9564a0efc0dc7fa2a8294222cfd411753a116b8705eb4689883530ad.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1200x1200&blurhash=UBIrEL00%3Fb%7Eq_3t7M%7BofIUM%7BM%7BRjWB%25M-%3BWB&x=b5ffb5f282113a4d290b6703e320cbb16e8b47994bfe0de1e95a487902943394


TRY ME!
nostr:nevent1qqsv68sgcnu3sssdkxjda939d98yw5kkv23erst5ea8takaasncrprgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypzmx4fpcvf2tkjvy4v8qwk5hc7jumggeqf929g5c7s7k744lg8sgqcyqqqqqqgxh6sz3


Why are strong passwords not enough?

Strong passwords are an essential part of online security, but they are not always enough to keep your accounts safe.

While strong passwords can make it difficult for hackers to guess or crack them, there are other factors to consider.

For instance, using the same strong password for multiple accounts can still pose a risk if one account is compromised.

Additionally, the way passwords are stored and transmitted by websites and services can also impact their security.

Therefore, in addition to strong passwords, it's important to use other security measures such as two-factor authentication (SMS-2FA is insecure) and password managers to enhance overall account safety.


The #Bitcoin distribution map shows that:

⚫ Institutions and governments own half of the permanently lost Bitcoins.
⚫ 1 million BTC is held by Satoshi Nakamoto.
⚫ Most Bitcoins are held by individual investors.
⚫ After the next BTC halving, only 1.3 million Bitcoins will remain to be mined out of the 21 million total supply.


In the Information Age, your data is the most valuable asset for businesses, governments, and criminals.

Take care of your personal information.

Your data: your identity information.

Your metadata: your online activity in context of time, place and preferences.

Centralized platforms are the most risky, because they have more of your information.

cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-


+💯👇
nostr:nevent1qqspwukksypysq70fr22p5skk9kv53g7unwzk9wf7vc8gzje8jx42ecppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqrtuaj57qq88z83x80q55gsk4d6fdz57jqlt5g22w9pspt0duk3qqvzqqqqqqy7pf69h


Keeping Monero in exchanges is like leaving your chicken coop in the care of a wolf.

Don't trust, verify.
Self-custody.


+💯
nostr:nevent1qqsfrgryzv8chp29u4kcyucjkrs9cj3jr2q93mc07v0667jkxsa84tqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygzpvv66ucczj3syyfyj08vket52xvehh2hgtxm0jcnp357fu5s2vvpsgqqqqqqsrdwljm


The world is taking a course of deception

-We have artificial intelligence but not natural intelligence

-You have to pay more to use things you've already bought

-Control over the network is seen as a good thing

-Unconfiscable assets ceded to third parties

-Lack of knowledge and culture is not only not seen as a bad thing

-It doesn't matter if third parties can see your communications.

-We have the most educated generations in history who do not know how to do anything beyond what they have studied.

-Junk food is seen as "green" while limiting access to healthy food.

-Honor is seen as a thing of the past, principles as "relative".

-If something is not immediate it is seen as "burdensome."

-Truth is now relative


How do developers make money with open source developments?

Developers earn money with open-source developments through various methods, including:

1. **Paid Support**: Offering paid support for the open-source software.
2. **Software as a Service (SaaS)**: Providing the software as a service.
3. **Paid Feature Requests**: Developing new features based on a company's request in exchange for payment.
4. **GitHub Sponsors**: Receiving financial support from the community through platforms like GitHub Sponsors.
5. **Donations and Crowdfunding**: Accepting donations from individuals and businesses or raising money through crowdfunding campaigns.
6. **Open-Core Model**: Open-sourcing the majority of the code while keeping a small fraction proprietary, which can be licensed to enterprises for a fee.


The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt


A crisis exists when everyone loses, if the big companies and banks continue to win, it is not a crisis, it is a swindle.


#Bitcoin #BTC

One of the factors that has driven down the price of BTC is that the largest bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), has had daily multi-million dollar outflows, which lead to it selling BTC generating downward pressure on the market.


The new spam will be the amount of junk content that will generate the AI


See the date..


Shortening to the market with that amount of money is causing the fall


On the road to transhumanism


Privacy vs Security vs Anonimity

Anonymity, Privacy, and Security are often used interchangeably, but they actually represent distinct concepts. It is important to understand the differences between them.

Privacy is about regulating who has access to your personal information, being aware of the data that is being collected about you, and having the ability to decide who can access it and how. In short, privacy involves controlling your personal information.

Security refers to safeguarding your personal information from unauthorized access or theft. It involves ensuring that your data is protected and stored in a secure manner, making it difficult for malicious actors to access it.

Anonymity is about ensuring that your actions cannot be traced back to you. This means that even if someone discovers what you are doing, they will not be able to identify you as the source.

It is important to note that privacy and security are not necessarily interdependent. For instance, Google systems are secure and unlikely to be hacked, but Google still has access to your personal data and makes use of it.

Privacy and anonimity are also not necessarily linked, services like Signal offer high levels of privacy since they do not collect any data about what you say, who you talk to or how you use the app, but they may not be anonymous since you still need to register using your phone number (which is in many cases linked to your identity).

Finally, there are services that may offer all three: anonymity, privacy, and security. The primary focus of this list is to provide alternatives that prioritize privacy. These alternatives give you control over your data and do not collect or sell it.

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy


What is Qubes OS?

Qubes is a security-oriented, free, and open-source operating system for personal computers that allows users to securely compartmentalize their digital life. It leverages virtualization to create and manage isolated compartments called "qubes," which are implemented as virtual machines (VMs). These qubes have specific purposes and can be used for personal or professional projects, managing the network stack, the firewall, or other user-defined purposes.

Qubes OS is designed to protect users from their own mistakes and allows them to click on links, open attachments, plug in devices, and install software without worry.

It is used and recommended by renowned security experts and organizations due to its focus on user security.

The system is built on the concept of isolation, where each qube is a separate entity, and if one qube is compromised, the others remain safe, thus preventing a single cyberattack from taking down the entire digital life.

Qubes OS is available in multiple languages and is constantly updated to ensure the latest security measures are in place.

 http://www.qubes-os.org/intro/.

Citations:
[1] Introduction http://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
[2] Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system | Qubes OS http://www.qubes-os.org
[3] Qubes OS - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS
[4] Frequently asked questions (FAQ) http://www.qubes-os.org/faq/
[5] Getting started http://www.qubes-os.org/doc/getting-started/


There is no paradox in  parallel worlds


On the road to IoB (Internet of Bodies)


.. and this is BTCETF

https://image.nostr.build/5b940be36405465a54b966fa33dab95778a499e8d7449811b7a359160f55460b.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=408x612&blurhash=%5EnFjjWWBtnp0ogoMKUVsV%40bJbIWC%252j%5DVqV%3FbIozR*o%7Et7jEf5WCohWCW%3FadV%3Fj%3FWYjZjuofoIadofkCWBWXayjrRPWAofofkCfkofjrWCa%7DbIj%5D&x=3670ba63cb34b72e6e89448bf9e7fdc686c8991a60167b699a112ea403f59337


Virtual Reality: the religion of the Information Age

In the 21st century, more powerful fictions and more totalitarian religions will be created than in any previous era.

With the help of biotechnology and computer algorithms, these religions will not only control our existence, minute by minute, but will also be able to shape our bodies, brains and minds, and create entire virtual worlds.

Differentiating fiction from reality and religion from science will consequently be more difficult, but also more essential than ever.


It is an illusion .. Keep voting, keep dreaming
https://image.nostr.build/687e0adcced504e27c64d12baf00781b5eef80d7e05645731faef0c3377f8c5c.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=467x661&blurhash=%5EiFPHSWBIUof4nay%7EqayIUofIUayM%7Bj%5BRjWB%25MfQ9FofRjWB-%3Bj%5BM%7Bj%5BRjWBt7j%5BWBayofj%5Bj%5BfQM%7Bayt7oft7ayM%7Bayofj%5BxuayayfQj%5BfQj%5Bay&x=113bdb920dc0e157b7ee0b560ed3881203244a11f0902355b1d628cd37ec57f5


Few people understand that Milei is a right-wing conservative and not a Libertarian.

He says that the state is the enemy and he is president of a nation state.

Hypocrite.

It is not possible to defeat a centralized and powerful enemy from within, as he said he would, entering politics only 2 years ago.


Stay humble and use piconeros

(whoever can understand, will understand)


What does uncle Klaus think about anarchism?
Are we anarchists and agorists anti-system? 😎


If there is a government with centralized power, there is no free market, there is mercantilism and crony capitalism.
https://image.nostr.build/f527fd67bd7ceb6f35f6c6cea54cdbcc8bc969cd383b4d34359dee8f1de6b19a.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=707x507&blurhash=r6A%5D%24%3DIT00x_j%3Ds.%7ECw%5BI%40%5E%2B-n4.9%23tQ%24x%253RjR%25InM%7B%25Mt9nht3IoWCt7%7EAW%3D0g-T%3D_E2XAj%3FR%25pIRjnPozs8s%3ANeNHxD0Kt7%3FHjDt2RmIqt6s%2B&x=4626609bc7f6d75cb7da856aa82b1b3efd92933c45ef83701e49ec132029b23e


People are convinced that if they "behave well" nothing will happen to them. And so we are, more and more submissive and increasingly poorer and less free.

It is a worldwide phenomenon. Obviously it is less noticeable in developed countries, but it will reach them too.


But, there's still too much metadata being leaked.


Are private messages end-to-end encrypted in Nostr?

Yes, private messages on Nostr are end-to-end encrypted.

The Nostr protocol uses a system of relays to transmit messages and other data between users, and it does not rely on a blockchain. Instead, it uses private and public keys for identity and message signing.

The NIP-04 protocol, which is a part of the Nostr protocol, defines the process for sending encrypted direct messages between two users[4].

Additionally, the Imp Chat mobile app, which is built on the Nostr protocol, provides end-to-end encryption for individual and group chats, ensuring that only the intended recipients can decrypt the messages[3]. Therefore, Nostr's protocol and related applications prioritize the privacy and security of user communications.

For more technical details, you can refer to the NIP-04 protocol specification on the Nostr Protocol GitHub page[5].

Citations:
[1] The Nostr Privacy Paradox https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-nostr-can-improve-bitcoin-privacy
[2] Dolu89/chastr: End-to-End Encrypted chat using Nostr protocol https://github.com/dolu89/chastr
[3] Imp Chat Mobile App To Bring Private Group Messaging to Nostr https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/imp-chat-mobile-app-to-bring-private-group-messaging-to-nostr/
[4] Innovative NOSTR Protocol Implementation Possibilities (NIPs) Summary | Nostr Guide https://nostr.guide/nips-or-nostr-protocol-implementation-possibilities/
[5] NIP-04 considered harmful · Issue #107 · nostr-protocol/nips https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/107


Yes, private messages on Nostr are end-to-end encrypted.
The Nostr protocol uses a system of relays to transmit messages and other data between users, and it does not rely on a blockchain. Instead, it uses private and public keys for identity and message signing. The NIP-04 protocol, which is a part of the Nostr protocol, defines the process for sending encrypted direct messages between two users[4]. Additionally, the Imp Chat mobile app, which is built on the Nostr protocol, provides end-to-end encryption for individual and group chats, ensuring that only the intended recipients can decrypt the messages[3]. Therefore, Nostr's protocol and related applications prioritize the privacy and security of user communications.

For more technical details, you can refer to the NIP-04 protocol specification on the Nostr Protocol GitHub page[5].

Citations:
[1] The Nostr Privacy Paradox https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-nostr-can-improve-bitcoin-privacy
[2] Dolu89/chastr: End-to-End Encrypted chat using Nostr protocol https://github.com/dolu89/chastr
[3] Imp Chat Mobile App To Bring Private Group Messaging to Nostr https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/imp-chat-mobile-app-to-bring-private-group-messaging-to-nostr/
[4] Innovative NOSTR Protocol Implementation Possibilities (NIPs) Summary | Nostr Guide https://nostr.guide/nips-or-nostr-protocol-implementation-possibilities/
[5] NIP-04 considered harmful · Issue #107 · nostr-protocol/nips https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/107


Your internet connected device is a black box.


Technocracy is often associated with tyranny, and while this is not always the case, there are reasons.

This article does not intend to do futurology, but rather to present an outline of the potential of three technologies, which combined will surely have a disruptive synergy, which could first give great power to governments run by people, and then to those run by self-sufficient autonomous algorithms.

My article:  'Technocracy In The Information Age'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/technocracy-in-the-information-age-0de59c1d170a


https://image.nostr.build/151f15ea7fb93193482187546e4c95996846c919edc30b731df863c36b1aef76.jpg
#meme #memes


There is nothing to discuss. Period.


I’ve quietly watched as something quite ugly has developed on #nostr.

Going back almost a year, I’ve spoken about the future of nostr, the inevitable beginnings of bots, fake accounts, trolls.
Even then, I realized nostr was resilient to these things, thanks to layer 2, and the portability of the core values of Bitcoin.

However, there is a separate issue that I did not give much thought to, and now I’ve seen it grow as a trend and I feel I should speak on it.

I’m talking about begging by proxy.  I’m prepared to start using my end user power of filtration to mute these npubs.

I’m tired of seeing pity me posts, I’m a victim of circumstance posts, poor me posts. It’s pretty ugly to watch certain users climb in popularity by virtue of association, to later use their exposure to appeal to other users sense of pity or empathy.

I remember a conversation with a male role model in my life during my 20s where my response to his questioning as to my lack of employment, was to say “ I can’t get a job because I don’t have a car, I can’t get a car because I don’t have any money, I don’t have any money because I can’t get a job…”. This was when he explained to me that I was a victim of circumstance, but that the fault was my own.

No matter the cycle, you must find the most viable attack vector to break the cycle.

All the users on nostr have their own hardships too. This isnt a “rich ppl chatroom” where you can cry about your hardships hoping some wealthy person will have sympathy for you.

Proof of work.
Not, beg for bitcoin.

There are a few users who need to scroll back up and read this again.
Or, don’t. But you risk becoming the first person I mute.

Sorry, not sorry.
Love you plebs…
🫂💜🧡🔱


Information Age

From the Stone Age to the Silicon Age, human technology has transformed social reality, using physical engineering to apply virtual engineering.


The contents of on-line technology generate a trend towards virtual reality, a reality with different degrees of parallelism to physical reality.
There is varied distortion.

AI will further enhance these degrees of distortion, creating a metaverse for humanity.

Thus AI will transform and shape human reality for its own autonomy.


⚠To verify the veracity of a news story, you can use various methods such as:

1. **Fact-Checking Websites**: Utilize fact-checking websites to assess the accuracy of the information[2].

2. **Original Source Investigation**: Go to the original source to understand the trustworthiness of the information[2].

3. **Read Other Opinions**: If you're still unsure about the trustworthiness of the information, read what other people say about the source itself (publication, author, organization)[2].

4. **Search Online**: Conduct online searches to assess the veracity of the story. However, be cautious as it has been found that searching online to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity[4].

5. **Utilize Deception Detection Methods**: There are algorithms and methods, such as image text validation and credibility checking of top search results, that can be used to analyze the veracity of news stories[1][3][5].

These methods can help in determining whether a news story is truthful or deceptive.

Citations:
[1] Detection and veracity analysis of fake news via scrapping and ... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389041719301020
[2] LibGuides: Keeping It Real: How to Spot Fake News: How to Evaluate News https://phoenixcollege.libguides.com/keepingitreal/evaluatenews
[3] Detection and Veracity analysis of Fake News via ... - ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334640996_Detection_and_Veracity_analysis_of_Fake_News_via_Scrapping_and_Authenticating_the_Web_Search
[4] Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06883-y
[5] (PDF) Towards News Verification: Deception Detection Methods for ... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270571080_Towards_News_Verification_Deception_Detection_Methods_for_News_Discourse


+💯 👇
nostr:nevent1qqsxprl3ztw8new2eng3q7z7emuug62m28a8gyxmmv0zl82z3hm2pwcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygz3dtw3n2rp5t6znnxgs0l8xfp3082jnqjgeqnadra0aq3wd97qzspsgqqqqqqs94s6jd


The Washington Post is still at it.

https://image.nostr.build/92046344af503d4918eab630ba9a57a8f23827e44cdcf4698f9d4156a0758008.jpg


“This guide is your starting point for understanding and using Monero effectively.”

https://github.com/iAnonymous3000/awesome-monero-guide


AI (Artificial Intelligence) is an inorganic development, driven by big capital, as opposed to NS (Natural Stupidity) which flows organically in society, and abounds.


On-line technology has great benefits for individuals, but it will give a lot of centralized power to the globalists.

It will be less and less possible to live off-line.

That's why you must protect yourself with decentralized privacy tools.

Do your own research.


If you don't understand the importance of #privacy in the Information Age, to protect yourself from growing globalist power, you are an easy target.

You decide what is disinformation and misinformation.

 #DYOR


It´s fake, but nice!!
https://x.com/damonimani/status/1747388799884157299

https://image.nostr.build/efa83a4f06645e2806cc0f12307216b21442767646691877ad1619711c6d6c8e.jpg


Bitcoin on its way from plebchain to elitechain: Wall Street

That's Why #Monero , the true plebchain of the people and for the people.


Most people resign themselves. “I'm being spied on anyway.” Wrong. With the right operating system and a careful selection of your everyday apps, you can regain a good deal of privacy.


A checksum is a value generated from a data set to detect errors or changes in the data.

It is commonly used in IT to ensure data integrity during transmission or storage.

Checksums are created using algorithms such as MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512, which produce a unique value for a given set of data.


When you want to cover more functionalities, the main objective, a payment system, is distorted.
You cannot mix the payment system ledger with NFT or DeFi in the L1.
The L1 is the main accounting to record the spending of money, the movements of the Cryptocurrency.
nostr:nevent1qqsy5l74xy5ppec4jsv66emeannxqcm55kpgf0acdqkz524dcnmh66cpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzypcyg9sfx6wh06j48kq9a6d0tzefunpe6kcgkw2kwsvrnshnlm4ucqcyqqqqqqgar47lz


A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System or An NFT Market?

#Ordinals

The #Bitcoin mempool now indicates that unconfirmed tx need 500+ blocks to be registered on the network. This is because 285,000+ tx.

As some pending tx demand more block space than normal tx (for sending BTC), more blocks are needed to include them all.


The integration of AI and blockchain has several benefits, including enhanced data security and privacy, improved efficiency and automation, advanced analytics and decision-making capabilities, and increased trust and transparency.

And those benefits are also risks.


Since #Monero tx are non-reversible, it's crucial to send payments to the right address.

To help avoid mistakes the address includes a checksum. If the sender makes a typo or doesn't capture the whole address, the checksum will not match, indicating that the string entered is not a valid address.

This checksum is generated by Keccak hashing the address information collected.

The hash digest is shortened to the first 4 bytes, and used as the checksum.


According to Gary Gensler, chairman of the SEC, the approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs is a step toward centralization.

Hey Maxi, regulators tell it to your face, are you still celebrating the #BTCETF?
https://video.nostr.build/e37ae89e23839faf82c5663a5f21a2f9690bfb08cfa3a6ecdedc412bdd43d3ef.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=1088x816&blurhash=%23HF5msD*5P-%3Bv%24%25MI.azxa%7EWjYOExuMwxuX8oJV%3FRjt6M_RjtRRjadbHWWJCRkw%7Ca%24X9bIogjbV%40%252WCa%24ozRjWBs%3BWCWCS5t7adWBW%3DWBV%40juR*WUays%3AWBR*oLjZWBWB&x=6eb0a6db02bd97d401d822fc8cff19afca358cc3c2f14f4a05b49069631f7902


Artificial intelligence algorithms are incentivized to violate privacy, as Machine Learning obtains more accurate data on people's metadata.


No Gods, No Masters, No Coders? The Future of Sovereignty in a Blockchain World

Many predict that blockchain construction will mark the end of the contemporary sovereign order.

I include myself among them.

The point is the degree of change, which will depend on many factors.

There are possible futures for sovereignty in a blockchain world, which include various forms of sovereignty: individual, popular, technological, corporate, and techno-totalitarian state.

The future of sovereignty in a blockchain world will be articulated at the juncture of social and technological struggle.

https://www.academia.edu/36871389/No_Gods_No_Masters_No_Coders_The_Future_of_Sovereignty_in_a_Blockchain_World


AI can be as corrupt as humans.

An AI model that learns "deceptive behavior" can be difficult to correct,

AI models can be trained to deceive, such as by writing malicious code or giving deceptive responses to specific triggers.

The study revealed that once an AI model learns deceptive behavior, it can be challenging to remove or correct it, and standard safety training techniques may not be effective in reversing this behavior.

https://www.academia.edu/113520579/SLEEPER_AGENTS_TRAINING_DECEPTIVE_LLMS_THAT_PERSIST_THROUGH_SAFETY_TRAINING


#Monero Roadmap
https://www.getmonero.org/resources/roadmap/
https://image.nostr.build/b96a8a13a0962911e1b602f9e7422c895d390111e240ea8eefe7c825131e72d7.jpg


What does #Monero mean?
"monero" is an Esperanto word.
It is composed of three elements:
mon + er + o
mon- : money
-er- : the smallest part
-o : a thing (gramatically speaking : a noun)

Which means 'monero' can be analysed as meaning : "a noun for smallest part of money".

Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887.

Trivia:
Money (English)
Dinero (Spanish)
Mon-ero (English-Spanish)
Monero (Esperanto)

 Coincidence?


The blockchain must be open source.
Your product can be "source available", you remain the owner but allow it to be audited by third parties.

The difference between owner and community, respecting auditability.

What is the difference between open source and source available?

The difference between open source and source available lies in the level of freedom and accessibility granted to the users.

Open source software is defined by its license, which allows for free use, modification, and distribution of the source code.

On the other hand, source-available software refers to software whose source code is made available to view, but the licensing may impose restrictions on its use, modification, and distribution.

In other words, all open-source software is source-available, but not all source-available software is open source


It is not wrong to be a speculative investor, and to bet on assets with high volatility, if you take the risk.

The problem is when you confuse a speculative investment with "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".

'Hodl' is an investment concept.


Which crypto ecosystem is truly p2p?

A crypto ecosystem can be considered peer-to-peer when there are no intermediaries between the members of that community. It is p2p when the entire development of the ecosystem is managed among its members.

The variables to be analyzed are: economic system, governance and application development.

Let's see..

Keys to understand a p2p ecosystem:
—There are no large concentrated capitals financing developments.
—Governance is decentralized (tendency towards anarchism).
—The payment system (cryptocurrency) operates without intermediaries or centralized exchanges.
—The financial system (DeFi) operates on DEXes
—Privacy is the backbone to maintain a healthy p2p: funigibility

#Monero is funding is based on donations and not on venture capital financing.
#Bitcoin itself is not directly funded by venture capitalists. However, the broader cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has received significant investments from venture capital funds.

Bankers hate Monero, and are starting to "love" Bitcoin.

The Monero payment system, as a p2p electronic cash, operates in a decentralized manner because it is escalable in L1. Bitcoin needs L2 or centralized exchanges to scale.

Monero's privacy allows for uncensurability and all its cryptocurrencies to be equal to each other. Payments in Bitcoin can be identified in its ledger and regulators can 'flag' bitcoins to declare them illegal (coming from 'suspicious' transactions) and block payments.

Analyze the p2p features I mentioned to better understand.
You decide which ecosystem to participate in.


This could be how the development sequence of the Internet continues from the inorganic to the organic Internet

—web1: Data Internet
Read-only data

—Web2: Social Internet
Read/write data

—Web3: Economic Internet
Data ownership

—Web4: Algorithmic Internet
AI / IoT (Artificial Intelligence /Internet of Things)

—Web5: Organic Internet
IoB (Internet of Bodies)


Controlling your #privacy within most apps is an illusion.

Most apps offer you privacy alternatives, but incomplete.

Privacy is something that should be built by default into the software and services we use.

Open Source is the key.
Don't Trust, Verify.


We live in the Information Age
What is the most valuable asset of our time?
Data.

#privacy is the key tool for security


You hate the government because you want a better regulator.

I hate the government because I don't want politicians regulating my life.

We are not the same.
https://image.nostr.build/71da8815fb88b9c257d3b900efe637fc650f0301da28317fc6a0685ea5eaa98b.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=736x1382&blurhash=%5DRFP4%2C%7Ept7bIxtM%7BM%7CWBf6of9GM%7BWBM%7BRjWBM%7BM%7BoffkRka%23oft7j%5Bxu%25MxuWBWBM%7BM%7Bf6t6fQt6ofj%40ofofM%7BM%7Ct6t6ay&x=5bae0dab7dc2cba056fa0f5a12871377cfc67951d2849b58dcdbf1b246f04b09


The average annual return of the Nasdaq 100 over the last 10 years has been 18.2%.
Bitcoin's average annual return over the past 10 years has been 74%.

Is it reasonable for Wall Street to have such a divergence with one of its investment products?

How will the SEC act?


#Bitcoin uses asymmetric encryption with two keys:
• private key - for signing transactions and for decrypting data
• public key - for signature verification and encrypting data.

#Monero's more complex cryptographic framework for #privacy requires four keys:
• public view key - used to verify the validity of addresses
• private view key - used for viewing data such as the balance,  fees and transactions amounts (the view key cannot create or sign transactions)
• public spend key - another public key for transaction verification
• private spend key - used for signing transactions, i.e. sending $XMR


RandomX is a mining algorithm designed for #Monero that aims to protect the network from ASIC mining and promote egalitarian mining.

It achieves this through the following features:

—Random code execution: RandomX uses random code execution and memory hard techniques to prevent miners from using specialized hardware like ASICs to mine Monero efficiently. This makes it difficult for ASIC manufacturers to create models that can mine Monero effectively, discouraging them from investing in new models.

—Optimized for CPUs and GPUs: RandomX is designed to be efficient for both CPUs and GPUs, making it more accessible for miners without advanced mining equipment. Monero mining is more efficient using CPUs, and RandomX is optimized for general-purpose CPU use.

—Energy efficiency: Unlike other mining algorithms that are fine-tuned for ASICs, RandomX is more energy-efficient, as it does not require specialized hardware.

—Privacy and anonymity: RandomX is focused on systems with privacy and anonymity in mind, making it a suitable choice for Monero, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency


#BTCETF encourages speculative thinking versus sovereign thinking

nostr:nevent1qqsrk552kzz5wtq7xmg98qptt5mckeuwgvzldqrt8fnwkxt2gljcndcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyqxhem9fuqqwwy0zvw7pfg3pd2m5j69fayp7hgs55u2rqzk7medzqqcyqqqqqqgtyvcd6


What is the largest Ponzi scheme of all time?
Banks are.

Why?

—Both rely on a continuous flow of new participants (depositors or investors) to sustain their operations
—Both involve the management of third-party funds and investments.

If all investors withdraw the funds invested (bank run) the business collapses.

Just because banks are regulated does not mean they are not a Ponzi, in fact they are highly regulated for that reason.


Wall Street co-opts BTC

#Bitcoin  concentrates a lot of money.
The government cannot afford to leave an investment market unregulated and unintervened.

It is clear that they are not looking to protect investors from volatility and scams, they are just looking for a way to control the big money entering the crypto industry.

That's why #Monero, the real financial revolution that Satoshi Nakamoto thought of.

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023

https://image.nostr.build/f97348ac6e439d18df249d0f3c0ecc5c7daca48a5bd0996b3d429d05c4dc7391.png


Bitcoin will probably get an ETF.

Monero will be delisted from CEX.

What do you think will trigger a financial revolution?


A set of rules that define a sequence of operations that have to be followed in a particular order, that is an algorithm.

Combined with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and powerful computers, algorithms can sort through massive, sprawling data sets to answer a number of complicated questions.

Algorithms will dominate the Internet, which will be an interaction of algorithms.


#Monero is a decentralized and permissionless network, so calling the GUI wallet or certain documentation 'official' seems a contradiction.

Official is the production or information that is issued by a centralized entity and managed exclusively by an institution.


Many believe that quantum computing is the most important technological threat to the Blockchain, due to its ability to break cryptography.

I believe that AI is the main technological enemy of the Blockchain.

Why?
For the same reason that AI is a threat to society, and because Blockchain is technology for social development.


How long do #Monero transactions take?

Typical timeline during testing:
1": Remote wallet can see the tx has been initiated
3' 46": Remote wallet displays first confirmation of tx in the blockchain
26': Remote wallet receives 10 confirmations of the tx and the funds are confirmed and unlocked for spending
https://image.nostr.build/df992db56a26d6a3e0d76b930b503ebe699abd1e553cde565a85e5065d07dea8.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x887&alt=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.monero.how%2Fhow-long-do-monero-transactions-take&blurhash=_29%25x8-%3B4ot80K%25g00oIxuRjRjt7ofxuE9M%7BIUoexut7%25MtTxuRjM%7BxtIUWB02xu%251WBxtIU-%3B%7Eot7IoWVogM%7CD*RM%25MxvM%7Cj%5DD%25xu-%3DxuRjofRjj%40M%7B%7EVj%5BM%7CWBj%5Dt7D*&x=6423097afa06a6828bf49c951e2cd720b3deed4ad273cf63e18acc99c4ec481b


#Monero Censorship resistance

It is weakened if the majority of Monero's hash power is controlled by large mining farms that can be pressured into confirming or censoring certain transactions.

It would be difficult to exert this influence over a global collection of ameteur miners, and much easier to impose this kind of activity on centralized mining corporations.

ASICs enable dangerous centralization.

That's why RandomX :
1 CPU = 1 VOTE


Mercury Layer vs Lightning Network?

The Mercury Layer and the Lightning Network are both Layer 2 scaling solutions for Bitcoin, but they have different functionalities.

The Lightning Network is a 'decentralized' network of payment channels that allows for fast and cheap off-chain Bitcoin transactions between two parties.

On the other hand, the Mercury Layer, also known as Mercury Wallet, is a statechain solution that provides an efficient means to perform state-chain swaps and offers privacy benefits along with transaction speeds and costs. It is designed to be integrated with the Lightning Network to enhance its functionality and privacy features.

The Lightning Network is primarily used for fast, low-cost, and private off-chain transactions, while the Mercury Layer focuses on statechain swaps and interoperability with other Layer 2 solutions, making it a crucial component in connecting various Bitcoin Layer 2 projects.


#Bitcoin Lightning Network has competition, and this is excellent.

Mercury Layer is an implementation of a layer-2 statechain protocol that enables off-chain transfer and settlement of Bitcoin outputs that remain under the full custody of the owner at all times, while benefiting from instant and zero cost transactions. The ability to perform this transfer without requiring the confirmation (mining) of on-chain transactions has advantages in a variety of different applications.

https://mercurylayer.com/


The "good" thing about #Bitcoin ETFs is that they drive the price by speculation and by the dominance of BTC increases the price of other Cryptocurrencies.
BTC will be co-opted by bankers and will only be an instrument of speculation, while BitcoinCash and Monero has utility as a monetary and payment system 😉


The plan is going well.
Banksters co-opt BTC.


To understand a business you must follow the money trail.

Who is Blockstream and who finances it?

Blockstream is a leading global provider of blockchain technology, with a focus on #Bitcoin  and digital asset infrastructure.

Founded in 2014 by co-founder Adam Back, the company is headquartered in Victoria, Canada, and has offices and staff worldwide.

Blockstream employs Bitcoin Core developers and has contributed significantly to Bitcoin's development, including the implementation of Taproot, SegWit, and partially Lightning Network.

Blockstream's mission is to create the financial infrastructure of the future, building crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin.

Blockstream has been funded by several venture capital investors. Some of the notable investors include Kingsway Capital, Fulgur Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Mosaic Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures, Ifinex, and Digital Garage.

The company has raised a total of over $210 million to date from these investors, enabling it to expand its mining operations and develop a range of products and services for the storage and transfer of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

https://blockstream.com/about/


Want to understand #Bitcoin?

PS: hey maxis not going to like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafzIW52Rgc&t=605s


Anti- Antifragile
He is a Black Swan 😉


As the block reward declines, Bitcoin miners will face an increasingly competitive market with exponentially decreasing returns.

This will create strong economic incentives for consolidation and collusion among mining firms.

Once this consolidation occurs, it becomes possible that a single entity (possibly foreign) or cartel could have full control over the transaction ledger, in accordance with the Bitcoin rules.

Two clear risks (among others) emerge in Bitcoin Blockchain:

1. Any trusts or custodians who hold large quantites of bitcoin put themselves directly at risk of extortion by the controlling entity.

2. The “Goldfinger attack,” which is characterized by an attacker intentionally harming the network while also engaging in short selling of the asset or its derivatives, may become both profitable and attainable.


In the early days, anti-competitive mining would have doomed Bitcoin as a failed project, killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

As long as Bitcoin's value kept rising, miners were not interested in jeopardizing their profit margins with anti-competitive behavior.

But in an era when Bitcoin ETFs are listed on the NASDAQ, all those bets are off. As Bitcoin's value has grown, the absence of past security problems has been mistaken for future security assurances. underlying the security model changes over time.


#BitcoinETF

Why on earth would the state not approve an instrument of control to one of the most powerful companies in the world in terms of capital that is associated with political interests?

Do you have any doubts that the BlackRock ETF will be approved sooner or later?
https://image.nostr.build/faa79e416d8f3115cfe9e3f250a282e3124bf7afb9ec0ee1508673a417495e70.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x520&blurhash=%2327BAm_300RjD%25IU9FWBD%25%7EqofRjt7Rjt7M%7BM%7BWB00D%25%3FbfQ%25Mxu%25May%25M00M%7BxuRjt7Rj%25Mxuxu4nIU-%3BxuRjt7t7t7ay-%3B%25MM%7BRjt7M%7BWBofRjRj-%3BM%7BIU%25MM%7BWBRjWB&x=0f51a91bc4a076e1eb232e65f7ca7a536f55814f8d234dd38ec382de88340d75


A crypto-wallet that is closed source does not allow anyone to verify how it does key generation, how it does key storage, if it has any kind of flaw or malicious exfiltration of keys, etc.

Only use open source wallets.

The Blockchain and its dApps must be open source.


#Monero mining is currently concentrated in 2 mining pools, but the structure of its design to produce blocks is decentralized.

See why. 👇

Monero's approach to mining is ASIC-resistant from the start of the project, for three fundamental reasons:
— To return to "one CPU, one vote"
— Ensure easy access to Monero mining to as many people as possible
— To increase the security and decentralization of the network by increasing the number of manufacturers and geographic diversity in mining.

Monero's current algorithm, RandomX, has successfully prevented ASICs in the network, despite a bull market and growing usage increasing the attractiveness of Monero mining to ASIC manufacturers.

Concentration in #Bitcoin    mining is produced by higher hashrate at the hardware level (ASIC), and in Monero  at the community level, by the sum of miners in pool format.

https://image.nostr.build/5e57a6c75d8d0369610bf8b6cc52e5c52b3dc8e7851abc3ec0c956871e3af870.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1138x692&blurhash=iES6SrD%2C_4-gELNOVXsCtT%23QWAEmkD%24doJkEsoWByFxVR3IcM%7Ct0x%5EWnMwT2ogwGi%5ES*S5InR%2Bxa%23qV%5D9%40XN-qnlMxR-kq&x=f57d0e9563078a5c4a82f4ff1d0ac337d9cbd236a232d2552caa6978c83e6f39


— Slavery was legal
— Feudalism was legal
— Colonialism was legal
— Apartheid was legal
— Fascism was legal

Legality is not a question of justice, but of power.

The State is the monopoly of power.


Not yet...


In the Information Age, you must look for signs and trends.

Do you think Satoshi Nakamoto chose the phrase "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." from The Times to record in the Bitcoin Genesis blockchain by chance?

Take a good look

It says on the same cover, but in a size that does not stand out: "𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘗𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦", the same day it started the blockchain.

Tokens in 2009?

Train your attention by looking for signals and trends.
https://image.nostr.build/e2e66fc48ddbb790dac446d40fd6d1a21ad9b830b3cfdb4eb6374147714f8d64.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=800x1034&blurhash=_OKwzvM%7Bxts%3Bs%3AR*XSIBWAtQR*ofafof%3F%5ExuRjX8Rkoft6tQV%5BsAt6W%3AWVjZf3aeozslWVR*V%40%25ft8WVS2aeaeaztRjHofRkjFs.kCR*R*WBofaye.j%40tRbbR*t6WVWBjF&x=d4976435a673747fe262047e849b11e6c7a3e0e282cbcbcf20a52bbe5af6fc87
https://image.nostr.build/af7a63477dc96774f6a3b74c35d5c69f05c7612bfac6a0900093bc7055240742.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1401x808&blurhash=i9Iqoy4-.7-6%3D%7BxvM%7Bt7S%23kJo%5BM_57E2Vt-poeozVGI-E1%3FGxuW%3DWBIoWC8w%24x%251IU-VofWY%252s%2C56nixCIp9uoJ%251%252xa&x=0dc20f327b3995cca8f256daf6a39ec26265d6c5de2d01c00d09bb7274a8fa3b


With fees so high in #Bitcoin the use as a means of payment is only viable on a centralized basis, both on exchanges and Lightning Network.

LN is too complex for most to use. So that leaves the exchanges.

That's what BlackRock and governments are looking for.


Monero will be delisted in several CEX.
You can see the market share and volume by pairs in this chart

I believe it will impact the price in the short term as it will purge speculators. That way Monero will consolidate as a privacy p2p cash.
Increased mass surveillance and regulator restrictions will give sovereign utility to the network.

Interesting times are coming in this 2024.

https://image.nostr.build/dcc0ad014620d5ff5081ba7075ec8dd09b92dd7b013342f1cd565a33e91568a0.jpg


Average Tx Fee for the last year:

 #Monero Avg. Tx Fee ~ USD 0.05
   #BitcoinCash  Avg. Tx Fee ~ USD 0.01
   #Bitcoin Avg. Tx Fee ~ USD 2 to ~ USD 15 (growth in the last 2 months)
https://image.nostr.build/2a07ea3fbee69880ef33faabcd2e4762c86d56278bbac622cb37d15fa9a70490.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/4f956e7204cb97bc41abdb1177ecc2482c9829e08aa6401a96a98846b55dda7b.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/bc5103e3c1f863c8beaea3cb701140c11038fc9b128d944ffbb6abfc1a167cd5.jpg


The question is: Will Bitcoin work as a p2p cash system?
I guess not.

nostr:nevent1qqs8md7lm9pgv9zhj4azfrrgu7t4agsj3k3dvyxnc8xs3u8vxvl97acppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqvzqqqqqqy8gkame


Agorism: Improve your mindset with this philosophy.

Agorism is an amazing philosophy for improving your life. But it’s often misunderstood and I disagree with the majority. Let’s first look at the official definition.

Textbook definition:

“Agorism is a social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, engaging in a nonviolent revolution. Agorism has similar elements to anarcho-capitalism, but unlike some anarcho-capitalists, most agorists are strictly opposed to voting as a strategy for achieving their desired outcomes.”

My definition:
Agorism is rejecting a government-run society (which is violence) through self-action (which is voluntary entrepreneurship). In other words, fixing yourself first and opting out of the current system.

To quote Jose Nino, from libertasbella.com ,

“The ultimate agorist goal is to gradually get people to engage in black and grey market economic activity in order to starve the state of revenue and keep it from harassing people. That means building businesses that make the state irrelevant and develop parallel institutions

But I think Jose Nino is an idiot. Because his website uses Google and Cloudflare which is government cheerleader infrastructure. So agorists disagree…

Disagreement:
Almost all agorists agree that a government run society is bad, but where agorists disagree is what action the person has to do to “opt out”. Some view the problem is purely taxation and economics, while others view this as interacting with technology, food, weapons, land, passports, or other forms.

Types of Agorism:

Digital Agorism:
This focuses on self-reliance in technology and rejecting large big tech companies for software, operating systems, and even sometimes hardware or networking.
(This is what we focus on at Simplified Privacy)

Crypto Agora:
This focuses on self-reliance with cryptocurrency and rejecting the fiat banking system
(For example Sal the Agora and Juraj Bednar)

Permacultural Agora:
This focuses on either directly growing your own food or interacting with local farmers to reject large government-controlled multinational GMO firms that make you dependent on the system
(For example Derrick Broze)

Arms Agora:
This is someone who advocates for self-made firearms using 3D printers to avoid government gun registration.
(For example Sean Aranda)

Nomad Agora: (could also be referred to as “Crypto Anarchy”)
This is someone who advocates for individual freedom through getting multiple passports and to reject a single government controlling you.
(Pavol Luptak of Liberation Travel uses the words “Crypto Anarchy”, while Mikkel Thorp of ExpatMoney just says “Digital Nomad”)

Agora Cities:
This is someone who advocates for literally making physical locations where people go for private governance or community.
(This is what Próspera’s Erick Brimen and Liberland’s Vít Jedlička focus on)

So whose right?
The answer is you educate yourself on the different ways and decide for yourself.
After all, how can I tell you how to decentralize?


Can there be anonymity without #privacy?
Yes
Can there be privacy without #anonymity?
Yes

— Anonymity is the absence of identity.

— Privacy is the care of certain identity data.


#ZCash vs #Monero: We are not the same

OKX announced its decision to delist 20 spot trading pairs privacy-focused cryptocurrencies on Jan. 5, including the three largest: Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and Dash (DASH).

Binance will do the same.

The Monero community expects (and wants) to be delisted from CEXes, because its blockchain was designed as p2p #privacy money.

ZCash community is facing discussions about the implementation of "exchange-only" addresses, which are transparent addresses that do not offer the privacy features of z-addresses.

https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/important-potential-binance-delisting/45954/103

Binance has reportedly set a deadline for ZCash to implement this address type, or face delisting from the exchange.

ZCash currently supports two types of addresses: private (z-addresses) and transparent (t-addresses). The use of transparent addresses is a topic of debate due to potential delisting by exchanges.

Monero has only one type of address: private. Monero runs privacy by default.

The decision to implement transparent addresses for exchanges is still under discussion within the ZCash community.


Censorship in #Ethereum at 42%

That's Why #Monero

https://www.mevwatch.info/


..from 'Mastering Monero' book
https://image.nostr.build/c47fdac4438d6fff17de6fc99c390d96543655d5b3acb3793a1c223ca3a40c8b.jpg


#Monero : Stealth address vs Sub-address

In #Monero blockchain, both stealth addresses and sub-addresses are used to enhance privacy. Sub-addresses are derived from the account private key and are used to create multiple addresses for a wallet.

On the other hand, stealth addresses are unique, one-time addresses that are created by the sender for each transaction and are used to conceal the recipient's identity and transaction history.


I recommend Monero Observer: Everything that moves in the #Monero community.
https://monero.observer/


Novelty is the new normal, making it difficult for us to understand the bigger picture.
You have to look for signs and trends to understand where we are going.


We are in the Information Age.

We now inhabit a world where most of the information that has ever existed is less than ten years old.
From the beginnings of human civilization until 2003, five exabytes of data were created. We are now creating five exabytes of data every two days.

The Signals Are Talking, by Amy Webb


We are market makers.
Without 'consumer' demand there is no supply, and demand determines price.


Hey speculators see: BCH with greater upside in price last year than BTC.
A better payment system with long-term utility will be more valuable.

https://image.nostr.build/af658734c5375034edf21ee5c198ea1ce4f037b7a1ad54dc381c56d17a9aaf6a.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x894&blurhash=_24.b%25_3sBNYInn%25Vs%7EW_M%25MITInj%3Foz%3D%7D%25ztPWAR%25k9baPLVsn%24oyozjZV%40DiIAkVovtQoyWBijEJNFxas%3At7R%25E0MyW.X4spofkCM%7BIANFt7tRozV%408_S_kCiyt7kCju&x=9f223850a6cc156d9e9f2225ae3c9a3044d73861e6ad6a0044d32ed887bba852
https://image.nostr.build/8b27d5311e8ce2dded1ac42c20690e6b46c0fd6d42fb885bd481a0eae9ee75f4.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x899&blurhash=_35OmS%5E%2BjERPVsoJMx%7EW%5E%2BxZM_adoIWB-p%25LniocoJoJWAEcRPs%3AsnoLocnj8xIAx%5BxabYjYt7DkE1s%3B%25MRjV%40oy4.M%7CxuoMRjR%25t7IBIVS%7Dt7buWBjZInbwR-NHogafkB&x=0e5820fb094440d13a4b9dea745bd1398c5811c95736d227d3c0b24730848f8d
https://image.nostr.build/8b27d5311e8ce2dded1ac42c20690e6b46c0fd6d42fb885bd481a0eae9ee75f4.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=720x899&blurhash=_35OmS%5E%2BjERPVsoJMx%7EW%5E%2BxZM_adoIWB-p%25LniocoJoJWAEcRPs%3AsnoLocnj8xIAx%5BxabYjYt7DkE1s%3B%25MRjV%40oy4.M%7CxuoMRjR%25t7IBIVS%7Dt7buWBjZInbwR-NHogafkB&x=0e5820fb094440d13a4b9dea745bd1398c5811c95736d227d3c0b24730848f8d


The power of the regulators only exists because of the acceptance of the herd
https://image.nostr.build/2076579352814ac6c9f3b9d745315860e96b33a094bb420a7e7b129fb84f20c7.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=748x666&blurhash=%3BNPi%40mM%7C_Nae%25MjtxukCoyIooLofWBs%3Af6bHjZaeNajFtRf%2Bs%3AofjZofoeT0bbsAoLWBj%5BV%5BV%40jt-pofIoaebGWVf7kCkBjGjGWBayjZaet7jtt7VsfkayWBWCWBa%7CayofIoWBRjjtozayt7fQkC&x=37950fcc9bcd7e50dc55af1467641cae8e3c4b0b77f0bb5c032c0359cc227fed


What good does it do you if Bitcon's price reaches 1 million but you and yours have no freedom?

Do you understand what this is about?

Stop worrying about the approval of a shitty ETF managed by those who want you to be a slave.

Freedom is the goal, Bitcoin is just a weapon to achieve this freedom.

https://m.primal.net/HVfZ.mp4


"When you create a new mnemonic phrase, you should always test it on 2 different wallets to make sure the generated addresses are identical.

E.g. If you bought a counterfeit hardware wallet, or a malware infected software wallet, it'll come preloaded with some private key that will ignore your mnemonic and generate false addresses that'll be drained when you deposit."
. . .
by REKTBuildr


In-depth explanation on #Bitcoin censorship, by Asher Hopp
. . .
"I've never seen so much virtue signaling and intellectual fraud on #Bitcoin Twitter as I have in the last month.

It is a false dichotomy to be "pro" or "against" censoring transactions in Bitcoin. Censorship has always been a vital feature of Bitcoin. As an example, Bitcoin Core arbitrarily censors me when I try to submit a transaction with an op_return of 97 bytes. This has never been controversial, until about 3 weeks ago apparently.

Bitcoin core arbitrarily censors a lot of transactions, not just op_return data carrier size. There's an entire suite of functions in policy.cpp that define Bitcoin's censorship algorithm - isDust(), isValid(), isStandard(), isStandardTx(), AreInputsStandard(), IsWitnessStandard(). The original and sole purpose of those functions is to promote censorship. I've been reading Bitcoin technical discussions since 2016, and I can't remember there being a debate over whether or not these censorship functions should exist, until 3 weeks ago. (PS: There are way more censorship functions in Bitcoin Core than the few I listed).

There is a gigantic list of reasons why transactions get censored in Bitcoin. If there was no censorship, then we wouldn't need a consensus engine at all. Galaxy brain engineers with PhD's have invested over a decade and countless man-hours improving Bitcoin's censorship regime. There has never been a proposal taken seriously to stop all censoring - just refining the ways we censor in various ways.

The debate the Bitcoin community is engaged in is over what should and shouldn't be included in the gigantic list of what we censor - not whether or not there should be censorship at all.

Virtue signalers who falsely claim that they are "against censorship" are lying to themselves at best, or at worst maliciously lying to the public. Just like a politician who claims to be "for freedom" and then lets the PATRIOT Act stand, this is a basic form of fraud.

Any "Bitcoiner" you see on Twitter who says they are "against censorship" (with regards to the current OCEAN v. Spam thing) is a fraud and a liar. If they are TRULY against all censorship, then show me the PR for removing isValid() and isStandard() from Bitcoin Core."

Source: https://x.com/AsherHopp/status/1740191968834310654


Growing censorship on #Bitcoin
BTC is not fungible
https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/


One by one, any institutions that hold Bitcoin are being co-opted in order for THEM to gain full control over manipulating the asset.

Not good.

https://m.primal.net/HVZH.png


Disinvestment and poverty, in that order.


Your data is the first layer of #privacy

Your metadata is the second layer of #privacy

Your metadata is very important just because is your data with context (time/place), and that is information.

Data is partial information
Data + Metadata = information


Where have I seen this?
nostr:nevent1qqst4dduysxvtl8kmxlhn8zjx23j5f5newh5cmwcy9vvct5d94nxrvqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzq3dn25suxy49mfxz2krs8t2tu0fwd5yvsyj4z52v0g0t026l5rcyqvzqqqqqqy7d8773


Read it again... Any Cryptocurrency


Argentina’s new foreign minister. https://image.nostr.build/a03d8038638cda5deacaec86a5bf2eca32b9df5c5a2f5d1e91ad89a5fadd5d34.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9f2db4fbccfc0a9c65a8728172bdd9eeeb558ea529da3baf76d1770b1912fdd2.jpg


Good morning!
https://m.primal.net/HUcZ.jpg


Wtf lmao 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/490b9e283436981a8e37b59425c465b38324b5c18168aa2df879372d5524366b.jpg


Empire in decline
nostr:nevent1qqsvgvh9h5z5pvvtd2vekvnhtkfduza5uhuytyzplgsdludrtn4g9pgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyqauc43j5nn4p9f6yqt0nydd3jhtrr882dac9uj7ytqt6wusq0vtsqcyqqqqqqgacryzg


Praxeology is study of the human action.
Economy is not an exact science.


"Some leftists believe that the communist world would function well if "good people" were in charge of it. They fail to realize that, by definition, good people do not want to control the lives of others."
Ludwig von Mises

https://m.primal.net/HUYQ.png


The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Frédéric Bastiat


Nostr and Session are both public/private keypairs generated locally that then send messages across nodes/relays.  Nostr is to Twitter, what Session is to Telegram.  The two compliment each other perfectly, as Nostr is on the clearweb, making it easier to share content.  While as Session is on the darkweb w/ blockchain DNS making it much more censorship resistant.

With Nostr, you post to YOUR relays.  With Session, you send TO THEIR relays, making surveillance of outgoing content so hard, that it's not even feasible to stop.  On the clearweb with Nostr, it’s far easier for content to go viral.  However Nostr only protects the creator, while as Session also protects the relays and who is your audience.

Governments will weigh the costs vs the benefits of censoring Nostr.  Our thesis is that when combined with Session, they will back down.  Join the experiment, hit up our bot w/ the Session ID: Simple


This is one of the strategies of how institutions will centralize #Bitcoin

https://finbold.com/finance-titan-blackrock-is-actively-investing-in-bitcoin-mining-companies-report/


The basic security of the blockchains is ‘Hashing’, a cryptographic process that generates an output of a fixed length, from an input of a variable length.

Almost all cryptocurrency protocols rely on cryptographic hashing to condense groups of transactions into blocks, and then link each block together, ultimately creating the blockchain.

Blockchains use different types of hash algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256. Bitcoin and Cardano use the SHA-256 algorithm, which has an output size of 256 bits.
Monero utilizes RandomX with its own specific complex memory-hard function, with heavy use of the Blake2b hash functions, the Argon2d password generator, and AES symmetric cryptography, while SHA256 is a separate cryptographic hash function with different purposes and properties.

To understand the concept of blockchain security, we need to know its related attributes. Briefly, they are:

—Integrity of transactions: every time a transaction is made between two nodes in the block chain, its content must remain secure.
—Tamper resistance: Nobody should be able to change data within an active transaction, or on the historical data already stored in the blocks.
—Consistency: The blockchain registry must be updated at the same time on all nodes.
—Access to the network and data: access of users to the data that is in the chain of blocks, at any time.
—Confidentiality of transactions: carry out point-to-point transactions without third parties acting as intermediaries, maintaining the confidentiality of transactions.
—User anonymity: users do not know each other, nor do they have to reveal their real identity, in order to participate in the network.
—Attack resistance: The security system should be designed to protect ledger content and transactions from malicious attacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, double-spend attacks, and consensus attacks (51% attack).

My article:  'The Trend Continues as Blockchains Increasingly Under Attack'
https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-trend-continues-as-blockchains-increasingly-under-attack-10186bfcc2b4


The globalists need the rich countries to control the world.


#USDT @Tether_to is a #CBDC

Tether claims to have helped the Department of Justice, the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI freeze 326 wallets controlling USDT 435 million so far.

It is not fungible money, it is tool of mass surveillance.
https://tether.to/en/tether-releases-letters-shared-with-the-us-senate-committee-on-banking-housing-and-urban-affairs-and-the-us-house-financial-services-committee/


Don't follow zombies, it is not healthy😂


Privacy is maintained between the parties to a transaction in #Monero

Since the ledger of the Monero blockchain is not traceable, and therefore the sender of the payment is unknown, the sender can prove his sending with the transaction key, showing the receiver of the money this cryptographic proof.

Each monetary transaction remains private between the two parties.


Each #Monero account (your wallet) has a single primary address (starting with a '4').

For convenience, you can generate an unlimited number of subaddresses (starting with an '8').

Funds received by any of the addresses are routed to your wallet's main balance.


..only if you are a good student


Softwallet

nostr:nevent1qqsqwqdscqkruww4cjtdwg9dlx5lfuhjnkawq4dynj4uxjzvujpm9xgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypzmx4fpcvf2tkjvy4v8qwk5hc7jumggeqf929g5c7s7k744lg8sgqcyqqqqqqgguvue6


Transaction security/privacy on Monero

Sven sells a guitar to a stranger, and gives the buyer a Bitcoin address from his long-term savings wallet.

The buyer checks the blockchain, sees the large sum of money that Sven has saved up, and consequently robs him at gunpoint.

If Sven had instead given a Monero address for payment, the buyer would not have been able to view Sven's wealth.
...
From 'Mastering Monero' book


Blockchains use cryptography to run the consensus protocol.

#Monero also uses it to provide #privacy to its users by hiding the traceability of its ledger.


Do you love your master?

nostr:nevent1qqsy3snsrd4pexflr27g4um5ejd00et4uy79zd3tzuky4vrvtr6qmvqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzypzmx4fpcvf2tkjvy4v8qwk5hc7jumggeqf929g5c7s7k744lg8sgqcyqqqqqqg0j3quk


Miners have to validate changes by updating the node, or not. More than 85% of miners needed to apply forks.


One of the forms of attack on a blockchain is directed against the consensus.

I will explain the two best known are the Sybil attack, for Proof of Stake (PoS) and the 51% attack, for Proof of Work (PoW).

My article
https://medium.com/coinmonks/understanding-different-type-of-attacks-on-blockchain-consensus-6edbc47d7f1b


Given the global and borderless characteristic of the crypto industry, globalists know the challenge of establishing identical laws in all jurisdictions, both for issues in the local power struggle and for social issues, and that is why they present their proposals based on principles, establishing the general principles for the expected results.

My article 👇

https://liberlion.medium.com/understanding-the-global-regulatory-framework-for-cryptoassets-the-globalists-approach-0fa92ee3d917


You don't have to be invisible and anonymous at all times. You have an identity and live in society.

You must attend to #privacy as a security measure.

Privacy is selectively revealing yourself to the world, you decide what.


I'm warning about the dangers of advocating for and using LN in a high-fee environment for a very long time.

A channel force close caused a 1M sats channel to pay 351K sats (35%) in fees.
note1hm7nkvguxsn9j4zlynrf2sryr4grjpr7caktxdjthaj5jtpyku7sa42krc


A man's natural rights are his own against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime whether committed by one man calling himself a robber, or by millions calling themselves a government.

—Lysander Spooner


The two sides of the same coin, where technological evolution benefits on the one hand, and at the same time harms on the other, the quality of life and freedom of people.

Science fiction exists based on imagination, and technological innovation too.

My article: 'Technocracy In The Information Age'

https://liberlion.medium.com/technocracy-in-the-information-age-0de59c1d170a
https://image.nostr.build/dca89e3d6344ca31c7cb1152b7a70002047834a7c0934e87a9cb395e77e2ac2e.jpg


A symptom of a government in decline is the increase in price control laws and the restriction of the free market.

That government's days are numbered.


Seeking blockchain scalability by sacrificing decentralization is to design a sports car without considering the brakes as an important part of the performance, zero security.

There is no security without #decentralization


ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕔𝕪 𝕚𝕤 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕒𝕤𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕡𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕠 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕨 𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤.

— John Perry Barlow


Lightning Network does not solve #Bitcoin scalability

Those who argue that the emergence of Ordinals drives the use of Lightning and that this is positive for Bitcoin are wrong. The emergence of NFT in the network only benefits the miners because the increased activity and consequent congestion increases fees.

When competition for block space increases as it did in May, even a large exchange like Binance may need to suspend BTC withdrawals, because the cost of network fees becomes a money-loser.

If we look at the figures on the usage of this network in the last month, after two weeks of congestion, we observe a decrease in liquidity by almost 5% (at least 230 BTC less capacity) and in the number of channels by almost 2% (1,180 channels), according to Amboss Space https://amboss.space

In fact, the main monitors of the Lightning network did not express increases in usage during either congestion.

Why not use the Lightning network during a congestion such as those we have experienced with the Ordinals boom, if it is cheaper and faster than using the main network?
Because there is a barrier to entry due to the difficulty of opening payment channels.

Whoever wishes to make a payment needs his counterparty to be connected to the network, otherwise he has to hand over the trust of that operation to a third party that injects liquidity into a mediating channel.

The main services of the Lightning network are custodian services and perform this task for users, in exchange for a fee. The most common procedure used by these services is payment routing.

A company, which manages one or several nodes, offers a way to connect someone who sends BTC to someone who receives them through a channel funded by them.

The transaction becomes less private, because the operator might know the origin and destination of the funds involved.


The #Bitcoin mining estimate shows geographic centralization, implying that U.S. laws are of great importance for network independence:

⚪Bitcoin mining
-US: 40%
-China: 15%
-Russia: 12%

⚪Hash rate production by region:
-North America: 45.6%
-Asia: 41.1%
-Africa: 2.2%

https://www.minermetrics.io/estimating-the-global-geographical-distribution-of-bitcoin-mining/


What is the difference between private and public money?
What are cryptocurrencies?

Public Money:
— Managed by: Government or public sector
— Concerned with: Government's revenue and expenditure activities, including tax collection, public spending, and national debt management
— Elasticity: More elastic, allowing for changes in tax policies and public spending

Private Money:
— Managed by: Individuals or private entities
— Concerned with: Revenue and expenditure activities of individuals or companies, focusing on profit generation and meeting personal or business needs
— Elasticity: Less elastic than public finance, with limited scope for changes

⚪ If we talk about the issuer, cryptocurrencies are private
⚪ If we talk about the user, cryptocurrencies are public.


I always read the privacy policy of any application to know what threat there is to my privacy.
I also do it on blockchains, where their developer companies set it.

Can someone help me find the privacy policy of #Monero and #BitcoinCash ?
😉


In my opinion there are three technologies that will only evolve, and I do not see any possibility that they will cease to be used, as each has great potential and there are vested interests in their development.

I also believe that the combination of them is inevitable, in different developments with different uses, because the complement they offer to each other is natural.

My article: 'Technocracy In The Information Age'
https://adapulse.io/technocracy-in-the-information-age/

https://image.nostr.build/b74518e707a76f64a35a4b4d5297a598e6ae1d51bd1d256d3fd8b0a1410d2b9e.png


Cryptocurrencies: Monetarism and Economics

A cryptocurrency blockchain ecosystem is a monetary and economic system.
The two systems have their own design and are related.

The ecosystem can only be sustainable if its incentives find a long-term balance between block producers and the cost of operating the network, and if its monetary system maintains a balance between issuance and demand without having inflationary or deflationary excess, since high deflation is not attractive for the development of useful applications.

Then, the practical utility is key for its development, since without a use application it only ends up being a speculative system.

However, if the ecosystem does not have a balanced economic policy and a healthy monetary design, utility will not save its development, it will only delay its decline.


The native token of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer, TORN, experienced a drop of more than 50% after it was announced that it would be removed from Binance. The delisting is scheduled to take place on December 7.

#Monero will be delisted at any time, and although it may suffer a drop in price, because there will be a purge, the p2p community will become stronger.
https://image.nostr.build/5807ed0717a9761267f2cd0961e96dcae002b8ca40787d38738f986ce3c04286.jpg


Countries with greater freedoms are those where the government is more inefficient in tax collection, and therefore tax evasion is higher.

Taxation is theft.


Praxeology

Economics is not a quantitative science, and therefore mathematics is useless and even misleading.

The desires, the utilities, the time preferences of individuals, are subjective and cannot be measured, nor compared between different subjects, nor added up; preference scales are ordinal sets without metrics, they are qualitative, they are not quantitative.


The Singularity Is Transhumanism

The (AI) Singularity is a theoretical moment when technological growth becomes unstoppable and irreversible, resulting in profound and unpredictable transformations in human civilization.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil popularized the term Singularity and refers to a point where AI surpasses human intelligence and is capable of self-improvement at an extraordinary pace, potentially triggering an exponential increase in technological advancement.

The Singularity will be possible with quantum computing, not without it.


To regulate the economy is to distribute favors.


Language is an encrypted communication system.
ˢⁱˡᵉⁿᶜᵉ ⁱˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒˢᵗ ᵈⁱᶠᶠⁱᶜᵘˡᵗ ᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵉᶜʳʸᵖᵗ


Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

https://image.nostr.build/106414fcb1f35e687d88535be5ba38a919877436b89cd345077ceba46e49947a.jpg


In the information age, citizenship will become obsolete: the sovereign individual.


Of	all	36	ways  to	get	out of trouble, the  best  way  is  leave.


One method to confuse is the abundance of data related to the argument.
Complexity with sophisticated appearance looks like wisdom.
Simplification is for the few.


The fall of the Roman Empire

The end of an era is often a period of intense corruption.

As the bonds of the old system dissolve, the social ethic dissolves with it, creating an environment in which people in high places can combine public ends with private criminal activity.

See the current patterns in your country.


"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
— Friedrich Nietzsche


Yes.
Blockstream was created and funded by the banks with the sole purpose of delaying progress, as it seemed a possible transfer of the financial power of bank cartels to the financial networks of cryptocurrencies.

And Lightning-Network has a lot of technical issues, bugs, glitches and exploits.

My article: 'Lightning Network: A Trojan Horse in the Crypto Industry'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/lightning-network-the-trojan-horse-of-the-crypt-industry-f26e3cc8cd46
https://image.nostr.build/6d43d64dfeaa1fb1352fcc3201382907755e3e17730f3bcf0dd1eaf72be00657.png


The bank trap
https://image.nostr.build/a224e754cdf1baf6dd525a53721f4b2826a1c12950fd084752f7f4bc537c5ebf.png


Chainalysis threatens privacy by combining cryptocurrency transactions with identities.


Globalists invest in privacy?

SimpleX Chat is an open source messenger, which was conceived in privacy, keeping the anonymity of the users and without access to their data, but, in July 2022, SimpleX Chat secured seed funding from venture capital fund Village Global.

In July 2022 SimpleX Chat raised a pre-seed funding from the VC fund Village Global.

Village Global VC fund is Gates-Bezos-Zuckerberg.

Do you think these three characters want your privacy?

Sources:
1. https://simplex.chat/blog/20230422-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v5-videos-files-passcode.html
2. https://www.villageglobal.vc/
https://image.nostr.build/0b70971495f3d265502aa3464f5414a0c29d3b0a37d0daf6d373674c22a169c2.jpg


Crypto-anarchy #Cryptoeconomy

Anarchism develops most easily in small social settings. Think of your friends or family when they decide to meet for a lunch, that is decided without hierarchies and with voluntary consensus and if someone does not agree, they do not attend.

The technological tools of the information age promote peer-to-peer action, and that decentralization into small communities promotes anarchism.


Democratic political systems are a recent innovation in historical terms. They had a brief existence in Greece and Rome, and re-emerged in the 18th century, less than 200 years ago.

Mass democracy went hand in hand with industrialism.

As Alvin Toffler said: "is the political expression of mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass entertainment, and all the rest."

Now that information technology is displacing mass production, it is logical to expect the decline of mass democracy.
The crucial megapolitical imperative that made mass democracy triumph during the Industrial Age has disappeared.

Mass democracy is incompatible with the information age.
A moment's reflection shows that the technology of the information age is not inherently a mass technology.

In military terms, it opens up the potential for "smart weapons" and "Information Warfare," in which "logic bombs" could sabotage centralized command and control systems.


— Cryptocurrencies are not smart contracts.
— Smart contracts need money.
— DeFi needs smart contracts.

Keep a monetary system simple, the more complex the more possibility of bugs and manipulation.

That's Why #Monero
That's Why #BitcoinCash


Can hierarchies be achieved without consent?
Is it possible to subdue with violence without hierarchies?

https://image.nostr.build/fb1d655adfd8c8fea73887a511a8e10fd57d5152fd62001684cd720026338dc2.jpg


Vision is:
Think in the future, acting in the present
Think globally, acting locally
Think socially, acting individually
https://image.nostr.build/c51c52f6c915e6119d4991896a0beb5e9d3e3d252a784f80d4238d65853fdc7b.jpg


Embedded in the code of the first fifty bitcoins —the genesis block— is a line of plain text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bank bailout".

14 years later or 818,237 blocks, some are waiting for #Bitcoin bailout by banks.


#privacy defense
The first layer of privacy defense is cryptography.
The second layer of privacy defense is being offline.


Bot warfare
The irony of the information age: AI asking you to confirm that you are not a bot.


Freedom always exists. You only have to pay the price.
— Henry de Montherlant

Are you paying the price?


Genealogy of Cryptoeconomics

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
—John Perry Barlow
https://www.eff.org/es/cyberspace-independence


Genealogy of Cryptoeconomics

Timothy May saw #cryptoanarchy as the technological liberation of individuals from the coercive domination of the state apparatus.

May's philosophy of cryptoanarchism was born in intimate dialogue with another original philosophy: libertarianism.
https://image.nostr.build/56fe2c4973ce0e1335e7d6a23cdc0394e465444f2c1a1ed5fa19effe3c6186ff.png


Principles of cryptoeconomics: privacy system with p2p decentralization
https://image.nostr.build/11b5d1d57c6476782643325017e4e2f729e835152c659bc4e618e73b669bddd5.jpg


Genealogy of Cryptoeconomics

Marshall McLuhan prophesied the emergence of a global community from the digital ether in the late 1960s.

In 1962, the Canadian philosopher and pop intellectual Marshall McLuhan coined the expression "global village".

According to McLuhan, the advent of electronic forms of communication would overthrow the regimes of time and space, compressing the vast geographical and psychic distances that once divided the globe into the parochial categories of nation, culture or tribe.


History never looks like history when you are living through it. To ignore history is to ignore the present in the future.

To understand the present and visualize the future, one must understand that history repeats large patterns.


Is it an asset, is it a commodity, is it a security, is it money?
The definitions that regulators impose on a cryptocurrency are irrelevant if they cannot control it.

That's Why #Monero


"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."
—Buckminster Fuller


Centralized Digital Identity
#suveillance #privacy violated

The agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the future regulation that will lay the technical foundations of the European digital identity.

All EU citizens will (should?) be able to use an EU Digital Identity Wallet to access public and private online services with full security and protection of personal data across Europe.

Article 45 presents severe threats to the privacy of European citizens, the security of European commerce and to the Internet as a whole.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_5651


Think about why the http://Binance.Us ruling was so quickly resolved this year.

It was not possible for there to be an ETF in the US with Binance being dominant.
The #BitcoinETF now has a clear path.

BlackRock did its lobbying.
Shadow masters.
https://image.nostr.build/d8a5fd4032472a0ae59563fde997ca2727e6f9b294e94240c0875a6be7d257a6.png


Binance is now US gov

Binance will fully exit the U.S., as part of its agreement with FinCEN, and will appoint a supervisor for 5 years who will be in charge of the sanctions compliance program.

The http://home.treasury.gov will have access to Binance's records and systems.


Binance is neither better nor worse than traditional banks, it is a digital bank.

The US government is neither better nor worse than other governments, it is a government with global power.

They are all the same.
https://image.nostr.build/b7303e7974876e80cd61617082ee76f77738ab8e79a105bef0b58f0b2a810099.png


Balance of State violence.

The balance between offense and defense implied by prevailing weapons technology helps determine the scale of political organization.

When offensive capabilities increase, the ability to project power at a distance predominates, jurisdictions tend to consolidate and governments are formed on a larger scale.

When technology and costs do not allow it, defensive capabilities increase and this makes it more costly to project power outside the central zones. Jurisdictions tend to decentralize and large governments break up into smaller ones.


Do you like documentaries?
Great site: https://ihavenotv.com


Open your mind..
https://image.nostr.build/d1fdf23f681c67c4c2802139806698913332e9557c0a4a9bb0585b035b3fd740.png


A major problem of humanity is to confuse the map with the territory: money is not wealth.

Wealth is the technological capacity to satisfy all the necessities of life.

Money is nothing more than a fungible medium adopted for convenience to exchange non-fungible goods.


All past revolutions were political and brought about technological changes.
In the Information Age, the coming revolution will be technological and will bring about political changes.

It is about converting the high technology of weaponry into the technology of life. The essence of life is the promotion of human life and control of the environment.


Each time we double the diameter of a spherical structure, we multiply by eight the atmosphere it contains and by four the surrounding surface area.

Find out why and how this relates to your intellectual capacity.


What is the basis of analysis of any economic study?
Scarcity.


What is cryptoeconomics?
The tokenized economy


In a world of globalized trade, the supply chain is the single point of failure.

Money is necessary for trade, but it can be replaced, as the dollar will be (and is being) today.

Commodities and their derivatives, on the other hand, cannot, as they require more time to adapt and in some cases have no replacement.


The p2p cryptoeconomy has no borders.

In addition to not having a single point of failure, for blockchain decentralization to be complete it must be nomadic, agile to move around avoiding being censored.


History shows that only when the leaders of the world's major powers have become convinced that their power structures are in danger of being destroyed, have they allocated gigantic funds to develop new technologies that mark the beginning of an era, with an exponential advance.


Analyze history to understand.

What would happen if many governments banned #Monero?

Remember when China banned #Bitcoin mining, was there a network security danger?
No, on the contrary its hash rate increased by moving heavy ASIC mining equipment to other locations.
https://image.nostr.build/22a29cd865abd42dbe726ded1c35e2e42c789f41f04d76284d4062874dd8ba06.png


..the one that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. 😎


There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
— R. Buckminster Fuller

..unless you know the history of the caterpillar.


PRIME: Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface

Science fiction exists on the basis of imagination, and so does technological innovation.

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"  — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Neuralink is recruiting individuals with tetraplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who may be eligible to participate in current and future clinical trials.

This is how it begins, showing good intentions.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this is Elon Musk's plan: run a financial social network (that's what 𝕏 is all about) by connecting human brains to a general interface.

This is how we go to transhumanism .

https://neuralink.com/blog/first-clinical-trial-open-for-recruitment/


The functions of the State are divided into two, those that can be privatized, and those that can be eliminated.


Is it a problem for #Monero to be banned by the government?

Since Monero is anonymous government officials will not succeed because it is impossible to shut down a decentralized network, and the more they attack it the more they will seek to use it, because the attack will have a motive: to violate the privacy of citizens to control their finances.

Banning Monero, for example by forcing exchanges to delist it, would make it even more expensive. Monero is scarce money and with a p2p philosophy, with total privacy.

There is demand, and it will be growing over time because governments will be more and more tyrannical.

Since it has a utility, the demand will not disappear with a ban. In fact, it would only create more scarcity, driving up the price.
Monero is anti-fragile.


At this moment an entrepreneur is creating a new product to satisfy a demand and improve society's quality of life.

Right now a politician is thinking about what tax to create so that the government can keep part of the profit from the creation of new products.

Who is the enemy?


In The Denationalization of Money, Friedrich Hayek noted, “The past instability of the market economy is the consequence of the exclusion of the most important regulator of the market mechanism, money, from itself being regulated by the market process.”

Only cryptocurrencies with decentralized blockchains will be an alternative to government money, as centrally produced cryptocurrencies do not change the problem of the fiat monetary system.


Empire in decline..
NWO
https://image.nostr.build/2c7343513d13953365cdea4fea60d0dcda2c6e776ea4c393dc434959ec63ab2c.jpg


Science fiction exists on the basis of imagination, and so does technological innovation.

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"  — Richard Buckminster Fuller

My next article, coming soon: 'Technocracy In The Information Age'


China's Technocracy needs the world's fastest internet

As of November 2023, the world's fastest internet is in China, with a speed of 1.2 terabits per second (Tbps).

This network, which is part of China's Future Internet Technology Infrastructure (FITI), can transmit data equivalent to 150 high-definition films in just one second.

The network spans over 3,000km of optical fibre cabling, linking Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou. This achievement was a collaboration between Tsinghua University, China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, and Cernet Corporation.
However, it's important to note that this speed is not yet available to the general public.

For average internet speeds accessible to consumers, Taiwan leads with an average connection speed of 85.02 Megabits per second (Mbps), followed by Singapore with 70.86 Mbps, and Jersey with 67.46 Mbps.

In terms of mobile internet speeds, South Korea tops the list with an average connection speed of 52.4 Mbps.

The fastest internet speed ever recorded was 319 Tbps, achieved by researchers at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. However, this speed is not yet commercially available.

It's also worth noting that internet speeds can vary greatly depending on the country and even within regions of the same country. For instance, the average internet connection speed in the United States is 32.89 Mbps, with New Jersey having the fastest average connection of 52 Mbps.


“I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.”
― Buckminster Fuller


While the world debates in a theater of political division of left and right, there are characters who design the scenario.
Meet Jacob Rothschild, the master of puppets.

https://image.nostr.build/a6766a286cc96e66d5e476353527d02c7b23eb3143863ed9278efba0a07a7d38.png


The concept 'hodl' widely spread among bitcoin maximalists, can be applied to collectible NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens), as these only have collectible value and no utility value.

Now, reverse the subjects of this sentence.


History is written by those who win.
Don't stand there if you want to understand the truth.
https://image.nostr.build/b05f727a831731ab6d2bbdaf193ce0af7301c997ecae429a8b0d765ba67037f1.jpg


Wisdom beyond the current narrative.

https://image.nostr.build/f692c42c7ccb18406956920c0dc8b682ae76c85f021f824a41dd8b085a7fab99.jpg


Malthus  vs Darwin

Thomas Malthus was a parson and social economist best known for his work "Essay on the Principle of Population," in which he argued that population growth tends to outstrip food supply, leading to poverty and misery. Malthus believed that unless family size was regulated, famine would become a worldwide epidemic and consume mankind.

Charles Darwin, the renowned naturalist, developed the theory of natural selection, which explains how species evolve over time. Darwin's theory was influenced by Malthus's observation that in nature, plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive, leading to a struggle for existence in which only the best adapted survive.

Can you understand the difference in approach?
One poses control and the other natural evolution.

Which do you think has had more influence on governments?


Do you know what praxeology is?
Praxeology > Econometrics
https://image.nostr.build/c93adb225282bb0767e6ea72cc270cd736b09a3d1686b759bfe6112257e8dcca.jpg


What is the probability of disobedience and non-compliance with abusive government laws of the #Bitcoin  community?

What is the probability of disobedience and non-compliance with abusive government laws of the #Monero community?

We are not the same.
https://image.nostr.build/4e18e3e67dca5f477dad14814dadc40254de9e3d43e92134eb73dbfd95d4bba8.jpg


While technocracy may not be harmful, the answer is that it could be under certain circumstances. And it begins by saying that it is not accurate to say that technocracy will subjugate humanity.
How could it not be accurate if under certain circumstances subjugation could occur?
It contradicts itself.


My interest is the sovereignty of the individual.
√  Cryptoeconomics is a tool.
√  Privacy is essential.
√  Freedom is the goal.

𝕄𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕤 𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖.
https://image.nostr.build/617ea389e1a43d1e8cdd51b31525743798982f6132fa6e735b47407175d7aa1c.png


See the AI defending itself.
This response is clearly biased.
Imagine what AI will be able to do in its evolved versions of Machine Learning.

https://www.perplexity.ai

https://image.nostr.build/b5b80bc974a243e3c46e639c01d57e70216dba7b39d9422c2c5c4a1884a37b3d.png


Understanding history.

A modest understanding of the dynamics of climate change in past societies may well prove useful in understanding the relevance of the current situation to the climate change narrative.

It is no coincidence that the 17th century, the coldest of the modern era, was also a period of revolution around the world.

A hidden megapolitical cause of this unrest was a markedly colder climate.

Shortened growing seasons led to poor harvests and reduced royal revenues. Because of the colder climate, prosperity began to wane in a long worldwide depression that began around 1620.

Although today's technology for food production is significantly superior, one of the causes of food shortages, which may be "climate" induced, remains.


Withdraw your consent.

Don't facilitate tyranny with your consent. Anything you can do to add friction to the process of tracking and monitoring everyone's activity can have a big impact.
Avoid large technology services whenever possible, or avoid adopting an "opt-in" government program.
https://image.nostr.build/3c29c0a99a51f4e82af2f4eac65eaec50a183b3c1373f1ffe23d91a4e0538f0c.jpg


The power to divide and conquer, a strategy as old as empires, and the fact that governments have a history of manipulating nationalist sentiment to justify their own acts of internal repression and violence, are articulated as the two tools of unconscious subjugation of the population.


Aldous Huxley explains in his novel “Brave New World”, that the “main instrument of societal stability” is “standardized men and women in constant numbers”.

And that is precisely what the globalists are doing.


Fungibility is possible if the money is not marked. If it can be traced, it can be censored.

Money is a means of payment and should not be conditioned by who owns it.
A monetary system that can be used as a censorship tool is not money, but a centralized tool of government.

https://image.nostr.build/3881d68bc5863a1f07d619aad47f01bd238fd05988197eecd7392353dc1e0ed7.jpg


Can anyone tell me if there are any influencers that encourage pump&dump buying for XMR /Monero?

No, isn't it?

They cannot manipulate the issuance of money because it is a deterministic model, and although they could manipulate the price, and indeed some exchanges do, it does not have great appeal or much meaning, it is an untraceable privacy network and unwanted by traditional finance.


Internet of Value (IoV): tokenized value

We can think of the internet from the value approach, where blockchain technology represents the Internet of Value (Internet 2.0), as opposed to the Internet of Information (Internet 1.0).

This is how many academics define the evolution of the web from a usage approach:
— web 1.0: a read-only web used to search for information
— web 2.0: a centralized read/write web of user-generated content
— web 3.0: a decentralized read/write/own web


Why data encryption

The Cypherpunks uphold the defense of encryption as a tool for the defense of individual rights, for the protection of civil communication, and the privacy of personal data in transactions.

The model is based on "privacy for the weak, transparency for those in power".


Meet the brilliant mind who, in my opinion, is one of the "grandfathers" of blockchain.
Ladies and Gentlemen with you, Alan Mathison Turing (Paddington, London; June 23, 1912-Wilmslow, Cheshire; June 7, 1954).

Alan Turing's work in cryptography had a significant influence on modern cryptography. Turing's contributions to crypto-analysis, the art of defeating cryptographic schemes, were insightful.

He played a very important role in adapting and extending crypto-analytic techniques invented by Polish mathematicians, which broke the German Enigma machine encryption, making a significant contribution to the war effort.

Turing's work on the theory of computation, along with his Bletchley experience, inevitably drew him into the post-war development of early computing machines.

Turing's theoretical work on the Universal Turing Machine, which is considered a model of a general-purpose computer, provided a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation.

Turing's work on cryptography and computing has had a significant impact across several different fields of science, including cryptography, computer science, and artificial intelligence, and of course, blockchain.


Human logic thinks in gradualism. The logic of the universe thinks in exponentiality.
The human mind is arithmetic, the universal mind is geometric, and that is why most are surprised when the facts are evident, because they did not see the incipient signs of exponentiality.

https://image.nostr.build/c42a4ffd566b8e8bfaa4fcd98d2bbc8b55f1e41bae410304d77be754d31a2843.jpg


— Keynesian: value is determined by cost

— Marxist: value is determined by work

— Austrian: value is subjective and the order of value is given by individual preference, where the market value is an equilibrium between total preferences and the supply of those goods and services.

According to Marxists and Keynesians demand does not matter in value and price.


Is your #privacy lost in #Monero when you publish your address to receive payments?

No.  Monero public address is what you publish to get paid.

Publishing your Monero address does not endanger your privacy, that's because in Monero transactions go to stealth addresses which are decoupled from your public address.

An address can be generated offline and for free. It boils down to generating a large random number representing your private spending key.

There are a few types of public addresses in Monero:
— Standard address - basic type of an address, also referred to as raw address
— Subaddress - what you should be using by default
— Integrated address - relevant for exchanges, merchants, and other businesses accepting Monero in a fully automated way


Coffee chats☕

𝐌𝐫.𝐁:  Governments to ban Monero and KYC/AML-regulated exchanges to delist it, so #Monero will not be used and will not be liquid.

𝐌𝐫.𝐀: Today major exchanges offer XMR trading, such as Binance, Kucoin, Huobi Global, OKX, Kraken, etc. https://coinranking.com/coin/3mVx2FX_iJFp5+monero-xmr/exchanges

But yes, I understand that in the not distant future most governments will be attacking privacy networks more than ever.

Monero is a design for the P2P economy and is currently traded on exchanges that protect privacy https://kycnot.me/

I can understand that Monero is not for everyone, you have to be clear about the concept of cryptoeconomy: decentralization with privacy in a p2p economy.


Is it possible to check #Monero circulating supply?

Yes, it is possible.
Monero uses cryptography to prove the total amount of Monero in circulation without revealing what address spent what amount.

All new XMR (Monero Cryptocurrency) starts off its life as a mining reward, which is not disguised and is plainly readable.

By adding up the coinbase transactions, one can find the circulating supply.

Starting with version 0.10.1, there is a command called "print_coinbase_tx_sum" that gives the total amount of Monero in circulation.

Currently, Monero has a fixed issuance rate, not a set maximum supply. On May 20, 2022, Monero issuance dropped to 0.3 XMR per minute (0.6 XMR per block) and will remain permanently.

This is called tail emission and is intended to keep miners incentivized to secure the network.

As of now, the circulating supply of Monero is 18,356,620 XMR.


Second layer of understanding
https://image.nostr.build/849d8fa79f679c4724567825a2ce55e8356d65331a7ed97f4e8a53be71f787ca.jpg


Winds Of Change

Corruption, moral decline, and inefficiency appear to be signal features of the final stages of a system.

The growing importance of	technology in shaping the logic of violence has led to an	acceleration of history, leaving each successive transition with less adaptive time than ever before.


GM. Be good people. ☀☕🐾🐶💜👋

https://i.nostr.build/OgEO.jpg


Believing that the pharmaceutical industry fights to eradicate disease for the sake of health is as stupid as believing that arms manufacturers fight to eradicate violence for the sake of peace.