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Learn from others' mistakes: six stories of BTC and ETH owners who lost access to their coins:

⚫ Rain Lohmus: the founder of LHV Bank lost the password to his wallet from where he invested in the ETH ICO. The wallet contains 250,000 ETH (approximately $450 million).
⚫ James Howells: accidentally discarded a hard drive with the keys to his 7.5 thousand BTC (approximately $250 million) in 2013.
⚫ Stefan Thomas: former Ripple CTO forgot the password to a hard drive containing 7,000 BTC (about $240 million) and has only two tries left to recover it.
⚫ Brad Yasar: is an investor who mined thousands of bitcoins, but lost access because he forgot the passwords to his hard drives.
⚫ Gabriel Abed: a diplomat from Barbados who lost 800 BTC (about $27 million) when his colleague accidentally formatted a laptop with the private keys.
⚫ David Arakhamia: a Ukrainian politician accidentally deleted an encrypted file containing the private key of 400 BTC (about $14 million) while trying to erase his hard drive.


Another Binance trap

Binance's newly launched wallet, which claims to be self-custodial, but:
— No seed phrase or private key recovery is provided to the end user.
— The wallet uses a 3-key system for added security, where:
(a) One part is stored encrypted in the cloud, with a recovery password known only to the user
b) The second part is located on the wallet owner's device
c) The third part of the key is stored at Binance
— Binance monitors transactions and may freeze accounts in certain cases
—To create the wallet, users must register with Binance and pass KYC

https://www.binance.com/en/web3wallet

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What do you see? What it does suggest it to you?
https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_fee
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The #Bitcoin rates have increased due to minting to ordinals: 1.9 million NFT over the past two weeks.

The average fee reached US$16, an increase of 16x over August.
Bitcoin has become the largest network by volume of NFT sales in the last 24 hs, surpassing Ethereum.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_fee
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Are you a Monetarist or a Generalist bitcoiner?

There are two streams of thought in the #Bitcoin BTC community:
- Monetarists: exclusive use of the network to transact bitcoin.
- Generalists: free use of the network to store bitcoin.

The debate is whether or not it is okay to store arbitrary information in Bitcoin.

While Ordinals will continue to be a problem and a waste of block space (from the Bitcoin monetarists' point of view), paying commissions to miners for recording storage tx will continue to increase, and that is an incentive for miners to promote the use of Bitcoin as a database and not just as money.


How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft and Identity Fraud

Identity theft is the act of stealing personal, private, or financial data. The data may or may not have been used, but it is in unfriendly hands.

Identity fraud is using someone else’s identity in a fraudulent or deceptive manner, usually for financial gain.

Not all victims of identity theft become victims of identity fraud.
Identity data exposure is where identity data is in an insecure state, like when you lose your wallet.

Thieves use a variety of techniques to steal your identity both online and offline.

Things you can do to prevent identity theft:
— Never share your passwords, PINs or other login credentials
— Use a different password for each site
— Use a password manager to keep track of all your passwords, but be careful which one you use. Bitwarden is on-line, free, secure, and entirely open source or KeePass, off-line.
— Use a VPN
— Never open email from strangers. Don’t open unexpected email attachments
— Cut up financial documents before discarding them
— Use a military grade file erasing program. Hackers can recover files from old disk drives even if you have deleted them. Destroy them with fire or use erasing program like Eraser or BleachBit to make it impossible for someone to recover that information.

Article: 'How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft and Identity Fraud'

https://restoreprivacy.com/identity-theft-protection/


Signal Messenger is understanding that the phone number is KYC and violates the #privacy of communications.
Bravo!

https://restoreprivacy.com/signal-messenger-testing-usernames-to-replace-phone-numbers/


#Cryptophilosophy

— Socialism: the common good and the collective above the individual, where people are components of a whole, they are numbers to be sacrificed for the sake of a whole. Socialism is centralization in the collective.

— Anarchism: the individual above the collective, and any violation of an individual right is unacceptable. Anarchism is decentralization in the individual.  #Cryptoeconomics is #anarchism.


A blockchain ecosystem is a software development that requires the skills of computer scientists and cryptographers.

But it also requires a social and economic design with the right incentives, and I have not seen Whitepapers detailing in depth this issue, key to success.


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Without decentralization and a deterministic monetary policy, any Cryptocurrency is just like Fiat, only with new masters.


Misaligned incentives in #Bitcoin

There is a misalignment of incentives in the Bitcoin network.
Let's see..

Every 4 years the BTC protocol reduces the rewards of miners in issuing new bitcoins, (halving), which today is the biggest part of rewards, and the way to keep the network secure and running is to compensate that loss, with more tx, to get rewards with fees, or increase the cost of the fee of few tx.

The problem is the high costs of the miners, both in hardware (ASIC) and power consumption, and for that the increase in tx or the increase in the value of the fees, or both, must be considerable.

On the other hand, users do not want to pay high fees, but they also want the price of bitcoin to increase in dollars, which impacts fees.

How long will this misalignment be sustained?


Incentive, and its cost-benefit ratio, is key to understanding the behavior of individuals, and then of a community.


The problem with socialism is that it only lasts until other people’s money runs out.


I believe that most people understand freedom and privacy differently than I do.

I don't think I can convince them that the state and representative democracy are the oppression of a majority over a minority. Precisely because they are in the majority and benefit from it.

After all, Libertarianism is individualism as opposed to collectivism.

I am concerned that my family, my friends and I can live in a context, as free as possible, as far away as possible from the clutches of statism trying to 'save' the world from the collective sheep mentality is a waste of time and energy, both of which are very scarce resources.

In all of this goes crypto adoption in the libertarian sense.

Agorism is libertarian pragmatism.

a3 : anarchy, agora, action


Communism (and socialism) start from a mistaken idea, they assume that some enlightened constructs with power and the monopoly of violence can direct the macroeconomy and decide what the needs of all people are and how to allocate the means of production to satisfy them.

Free market always wins in the long term.


Philanthropy is a euphemism for billionaires interfering in public policy.


When you investigate a Blockchain development there are 3 possible appropriate responses:
1. Yes
2. No
3. I need more information

The first two could be incorrect/incomplete.
The third induces you to see what you are served on the tray, and makes it difficult for you to investigate the second degree information, the most valuable one, the incentives.


#Cryptophilosophy

Crypto-drama: term commonly used by some blockchain maxinalists to disqualify controversial ideas, or conspiracy theories, that threaten the stability of their beliefs (and investments).


The growing size of blockchains

As more tx are processed on the network, the size of the blockchain increases with the addition of new blocks to the chain.
The amount of resources required consuming block producers (miners/validators) is increasing.

What are the current most commonly used solutions?

—Sharding: This technique involves splitting the entire blockchain into smaller, more manageable parts

—Pruning: This technique involves removing old data from the blockchain to reduce its size. For example, Monero has a pruning option that gets the size down to 50GB, while keeping the full transaction history  https://www.getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html

—Horizontal scalability: This technique is achieved by having multiple parallel chains running the same application and operated by a common validator set


Decentralization, Security and Blockchain Scalability: The Nemesis of Developers

Blockchain ecosystem developers seek decentralization in block production to make the network more secure and attract adoption.

The greater the adoption, the greater the amount of tx, so transactions need to be processed faster. Developers design centralized components for better processing performance because centralized systems process tx faster. They seek to improve and meet the growing demand, and over time they realize that the network is becoming more and more centralized and with security issues in block production.

Then they refocus the development of components based on decentralization, but they have tx processing problems, so they design sidechains to process more demand. Those parallel networks are more centralized than the main blockchain (Layer 1), because tx validation is concentrated in few hands.
Thus the whole blockchain ecosystem becomes centralized and insecure, prone to corruption and control.


Cryptophilosophy: What is a Hardfork in a blockchain?
A Hardfork is the dilemma of a dichotomy

𝑫𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒂: 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔

𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒚: 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆


Stay resilient by keeping your open source code in an open source repository:
5 open source alternatives to GitHub
https://opensource.com/article/20/11/open-source-alternatives-github

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What is irony?
Developing open source software for decentralized platforms on a centralized, closed source platform.

Stay resilient by keeping your open source code in an open source repository:
5 open source alternatives to GitHub


Pro/con for each encrypted messenger

XMPP:
Pro: Speed & Decentralization. Easy to self-host
Con: Low adoption & reliant on government DNS

Matrix:
Pro: Institutional adoption
Con: Decentralized in theory, but centralized in practice to the matrix.org server with Google captchas. Like XMPP, it uses Government DNS

Session:
Pro: Uncensored Identity with onion routed delivery
Con: No rotating keys & despite rising adoption of the messenger, their cryptocurrency is dramatically falling in price, which relays have to stake

SimpleX:
Pro: Anonymous identity for each conversation, your identity is not tied to any one server, and you can self-host.
Con: No multi-device sync.  No backup of account if you lose the physical device.  Group chats don’t scale.  You have to manually find and add servers not hosted by the developer.

Briar:
Pro: Uncensored identity, no servers, Direct Peer to Peer onion routed on Tor, or works without internet via bluetooth
Cons: Other person has to be online. No phone calls. While open source, keep in mind the CIA made Briar for foreign regime change.

Keet:
Pro: Uncensored identity, no servers, peer to peer like Briar, and it’s great for video chat and large file transfers
Con: Like Briar, the other person has to be online, but unlike Briar, Keet won’t connect over Tor.

Signal:
Pro: Easy to use, wide adoption
Con: Centralized Amazon server, no self-hosting, identity is connected to government phones which leaks metadata and can be censored. “Sealed Sender” has been academically proven to leak metadata unless you turn off “read receipts”.  Group chats leak phone numbers if members accept new incoming messages.


Private property refers to the ownership of property by individuals or by non-governmental legal entities, and the management of these private resources without state intervention.

 For me, the state is the enemy.


Fiat depreciation.
The government's (hidden) inflationary tax.


Statism and no private property.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.. Sounds to you?


For a world war to exist, there must be (at least) two opposing axes and the conflict must not be over a single territory or a single motive.

The conditions seem to be in place.


Yes, you are right, you are in the minority.
Separation of money and state.


WEF is communism 2.0


Study history and reason to understand the present and prepare for the future.

There are (large) social patterns that repeat over time.

The second layer of information is more valuable than the first, but requires more effort.


Tyrannical technocracy will be:
IoT + AI + digital identification + CBDC

Your protection will be:
anonymity + FOSS + privacy blockchains + decentralization


In 10 years the Internet will be very different from the one we know. Connection will be regulated and mandatory via personal ID, and ISPs will be required to report user activity to governments.

#Privacy will be violated.

So, layer 1 privacy protection will be anonymous connection with VISP (Virtual Internet Service Provider), layer 2 will be the Dark-web and layer 3 will be off-line.


You must look beyond the obvious.

Dramatic changes will not be welcome, or announced, by conventional thinkers.

Si, the thinkers who leave the box are qualified as conspiracy theorists.

The conspiracies exist only for whom history studied.

The creation of modern states is one of the greatest conspiracies in history, in view of all.


There is a tendency to relate digital identity with #privacy, assuming that with the digitization of personal information the individual is the owner of his data.

Beware, this is not always the case, in fact only the decentralized digital identity of open source platforms 'could' provide the desired privacy.


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https://x.com/Snowden/status/1722010208493355417?s=20


Bien dicho.


There is no advantage between an illiterate and someone who does not read regularly.

I recommend this book to understand the global history of governance in a nutshell: Sovereign Individual.

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The Information Age.

The globalists' push for centralized control will increasingly be instrumented in information technology.

Representative democracy, a centralized and corrupt system, will disappear, giving way to greater concentration of power, which will lead to loss of individual freedoms.

Technocracy will be the new form of tyrannical government of the coming decade.

Cryptoeconomics will develop as a defense of the individual.
Greater voluntary adoption will be achieved by opposition to the Technocratic State.


In the crypto space there is a wide variety of offerings. There is no single blockchain ecosystem that meets everyone's needs. Scalability is decentralization itself, where different protocols bring their own value.

The arrogance and fanaticism of maximalists, excites them and clouds their reason.

There are developments with great design, where incentives make the difference.

There are ecosystems that are designed for regulatory compliance, they are banking 3.0.

You have to understand to choose, if it complies with regulations it will not be free and sooner rather than later it will be a centralized ecosystem to a greater or lesser degree.

Look into the depth of the incentives of each ecosystem to understand.


The Information Age

As we look at the technological evolution that is shaping the new millennium, the polarization between centralized power and free society is noticeable and growing.

There are two possible outcomes for humanity:
—A technocratic world government
—Micro-governments in small, self-governing communities, approaching anarchism

The occurrence of one or the other depends on the action of the people, because the centralized power is clear about what it wants.


The characteristics of #Monero are the same as those of Anarchism.

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Want to understand where 𝕏 is going?
Great article..
https://open.substack.com/pub/globalsovereigntysolutions/p/the-super-app-is-progressing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=u2ikh


A new way to organize medical research without patents.

This is the way to cryptoeconomy.
https://www.eticaprotocol.org/
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You can better see what's in the turmoil of the day from the darkness.
You can better hear what they say in the din from the silence.
You can better understand the reasons for the chaos from the calm.
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Journalism seeks to sell its material, and when money is more important than the principles of the profession, it publishes this garbage that distorts the information with sensationalism..

The article: 'Monero's community wallet loses $460,000 due to privacy model loophole'
You can read about the garbage generated by AI in this article.

https://in.investing.com/news/moneros-community-wallet-loses-460000-due-to-privacy-model-loophole-93CH-3886283

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Self-custody of funds is the safest way to keep your money, as long as you know how to do it. Who better than you to take care of your money?

I will present you a brief basic guide to take care of your cryptocurrencies.

My article: 'Store Your Cryptocurrencies Securely'
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There is a lot of garbage on social networks, but if you look hard enough, and understand the second layer of data, you will find valuable information.

In the centralized political system there is only garbage, and the more you search the more corruption you find.

Great article: 'Crypto Twitter Found SBF's Fraud'

https://balajis.com/p/crypto-twitter-found-sbfs-fraud

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Money with the identity of its holder is a vector of attack on #privacy

Non-traceability = individual privacy = personal safety

That's why #Monero


Untraceable is #privacy

David Chaum's 1983 paper "Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments" introduced the concept of untraceable payments.
The paper proposed a cryptographic protocol that allowed a user to obtain a signature from a bank on a message without revealing the content of the message to the bank.
This signature could then be used to prove to a third party that the user had made a payment without revealing any information about the payer or payee.

David Chaum is an American computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor, widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash.
He is known as a pioneer in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies, and has made fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technologies such as mix nets and secure voting systems.

https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF


Small, constant actions towards a goal have the power of geometric growth...
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Do not limit yourself..
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The Total Value Locked (TVL) can be compared to the fractional reserve banking system that creates money out of thin air.

TVL of DeFi can be easily manipulated to make believe that an ecosystem is large.

Let's see.

Banks are obliged to keep only a portion of the money deposited with them as reserves and to use customer deposits to grant new loans. The obligation to maintain reserves allows commercial banks to act as intermediaries between borrowers and savers, granting loans to borrowers and providing immediate liquidity to depositors who want to withdraw money, but of course, only partially, up to the level of reserves.

This system is conceptually a (legal) Ponzi because if depositors all wanted to withdraw all their money at the same time they could not, as there is no liquidity, because money has been created out of thin air. Banks do not support runs.

In most DeFi ecosystems something similar happens, in a sense, money is created out of thin air.

If you deposit cryptocurrencies into a smart contract, you receive a token. If you deposit that token into another contract and do it in succession, you can create a snowball that artificially inflates the statistics.

While tokens are locked to create a new representation, and until you liquidate to this one you cannot recover the original token, the important thing here is that you inflate the total amount with the same money that is credited to a new underlying token.


Market Capitalization is the perfect tool to attract fools by artificially inflating the figures.
See why.

It is calculated by multiplying the circulating supply of a cryptocurrency, or token, by its last tx price.

It’s a widely used metric for measuring the size of a cryptocurrency or token network.

Market Cap ≠ value
Market Cap is about price, not value

Let me give an example: I create a token with a 10 billion supply, I develop a simple ERC20 contract and deploy it on Ethereum, and on an exchange.  I then buy one of these tokens for $1.
Boom! there you have it, a token with a $10 billion market cap.

Now I have created a new promising project with a lot of investment.

While this is a simplification of the concept, I show how easy it is to create a pump with Market Cap.
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Sure, but I was referring to the traceability of the Monero, as a network privacy concept.
Whether they gave the private keys to the researchers or not is important to know how traceable Monero is.


Is #Monero traceable?
I am still researching.

The document published by Moonstone Research does not clarify whether they had access to the private keys for the analysis.
If so, the report omitted to include this relevant information.

https://x.com/moonscriber/status/1720724454429392990

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How do you recognize a politician?
When he opens his mouth, by his howls and his breath.
A wolf in sheep's clothing.

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Many academic communities were initially slow to understand the numerous potential implications of blockchain technology. The evolution of developments has shown that we are at the beginning of this innovation, and there is still a long way to go.

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To develop as a Sovereign Individual, you must have the conviction of autonomy and develop critical thinking, starting with yourself.
To be free you must understand that for you there are no leaders, only peers and referents.

The cryptoeconomy provides us with an ecosystem never before available, with blockchain technology, a revolutionary technological tool, without precedent.

The pillar of the cryptocenomy is p2p, that is, the decentralization of relationships, without intermediaries.

The mother of decentralization is the use of different blockchain ecosystems, choosing the best ones and taking advantage of the best of each one  👇
decentralization of decentralization : decentralization^2

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Is #Monero traceable?

While I think Monero is one of the best p2p payment systems with #privacy, it's not perfect.
I have no commitments to anything or anyone but my intellectual honesty.
I am maximalist only of freedom. See why I say this.

On September 1, 2023, an attacker stole the balance of the Monero CCS Wallet (Community Crowdfunding System) containing 2675.73 XMR in nine transactions, according to the incident disclosure: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/916

Beyond the lack of wallet security, and beyond that some think it was an insider attack, this post aims to show some traceability of the Monero blockchain.

Monero tracing is not deterministic in the same way that Bitcoin and Ethereum tracing often is. Monero transactions purposefully impose complexity to their transaction graphs, leading to false positives and ambiguity.

The degree of difficulty to see traceability is high, but it is not 100% untraceable, and the trail is lost the more tx are made with the funds, and it becomes practically impossible to trace them.

Moonstone Research is a blockchain analysis firm that investigates difficult-to-trace transactions. They specialize in tracing ransomware and other illicit payments.

Moonstone Research tools investigate Monero transaction graphs and use heuristics to track funds. These heuristics are subject to errors. Transaction graph analysis is a useful tool, though it should be used alongside other evidence in investigations.

You can read Moonstone Research's research: https://moonstoneresearch.com/2023/11/03/Postmortem-of-Monero-CCS-Hack.html
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When a politician talks about the benefits of the present state..
Me 👇

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😉I'm not interesting in judging you

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Bitcoin ETFs will be approved, because regulations will be increased, with greater focus on privacy attack.


"..An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy."
—Eric Hughes


Read the latest from our guest contributor, nostr:npub123sfqjpgf54p28yd7cjlgrpcn4pra5zhlnheyldc39td9r3zhgpshcwk9x, breaking down where financial surveillance spawned from and what it means for our freedom.

https://freedom.tech/digital-privacy-in-the-age-of-bitcoin/


Are you in the right (crypto)community?

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Choose the terrain of your fight if you can't choose your enemy..
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#privacy

There are two rules in life:
1. Never give out all the information


Are you still dreaming in your job?

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He is a corrupt politician. Nothing is expected from him.
He is preparing a bill for a CBDC 🤬


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#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 🤙💜


Individuals are higher than the collective.

Without individuals there is no society.
If the collective crushes the individuals, society collapses, and the collective loses meaning.

Again, Individuals are higher than the collective.


There are three reasons to use #Monero
1. To protect yourself from the government
2. To protect yourself from the tyranny of power
3. To protect yourself from the tyranny of government


Banking 3.0 is my definition of a government-regulated Blockchain ecosystem.


The Birth Of Cryptoeconomics

First you have to understand what it's all about, and then read the history.

At the end of this post I will leave you my article on this topic.

I am not a seer, but the global scenario is at a limit.

I believe there will be a recession, soon, wars will escalate and contribute to the collapse of many economies.

Cryptocurrencies will suffer big losses in their price, by 'flight to quality' and many Blockchain ecosystems will collapse.

Then some Cryptocurrencies will recover their price due to the utility they provide in destroyed economies.

The era of the Cryptoeconomy will begin.

The need for people and the evolution of Blockchain technology will encourage its use.

Governments will attack with strong regulations to the Cryptoeconomy because they will want to control it, they cannot afford to lose power.

Some Blockchain systems will be successfully regulated and some will not, others will fall, and disappear.

Think about which ones will be easily regulated and will continue to operate, of course, as the government wants them to.

That's why #Monero , #privacy and fungibility for your untraceable ledger.

My article: 'The Basics of Cryptoeconomics. Its History and Origin.'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-basics-of-cryptoeconomics-its-history-and-origin-ba55223d53a7


The key to understanding how societies evolve is to understand the factors that determine the costs and rewards of using violence.
Technology determines the costs.


Today's Internet..

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Don't buy M̶O̶N̶E̶R̶O̶ ̶ !
It destabilizes the C҉O҉R҉R҉U҉P҉T҉ global financial system.

https://image.nostr.build/db32d823af145e071f8ef0f45ebde1ceb1c88d81857bf11f897c6cdf715d2a43.jpg


"Lightning is built on fake promises"

“Tadge Dryja himself has been talking about this since years ago, he thinks HTLCs only work for higher amounts, but who cares, he is just the inventor of Lightning."

https://t.me/DcInsiders/1 https://image.nostr.build/04cb469bb67371de11162c2bb1f2d2a058595cffbee0c122c2a39e6df232915a.png


The state is the enemy

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Anarchy does not mean out of control, it means out of their control.

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Do you think it was a flood?
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes...

https://image.nostr.build/cadb2d6be15c190d11ea337a685dc1841c522bc7100aa42f695027b5998513b9.jpg


A crypro which has a "CEO" behind it cannot be decentralized


Argentina es una potencia exportadora... de cerebros.
Todos tenemos conocidos que se fueron de la República de Peronia.


The Nostr protocol can be split into 3 separate interoperability layers:

1. Core event data structure with canonicalization, hashing, sign and verify operations

2. Relay network publishing, filters, and authentication with expected client/relay behaviors and event kind ranges.

3. Event kind registry: kinds, common tags, expected behaviors, encrypt / decrypt operations, etc.

There is only one way of implementing 1. This is what defines Nostr as a social-first protocol and the reason we are all here.

There are a few possible protocols for 2. The relay network is our layer-1, but there will be others.

There are thousands of options on 3. Here is where apps shine.

GM.


4 ways to earn #Monero

1. Mining it
https://monerosuite.org/

2. Trading on exchanges
dex: Bisq, LocalMonero
cex: Krraken

3. Accepting it as payment for goods/services
see https://kycnot.me or like Shopinbit

4. Receiving tips or donations
like Tails,  Tor Project  or nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5

https://image.nostr.build/9bdfd2449569530a495645ad7e0e98a9869937117512ddf15f76d17a878f325a.jpg


More and more people are realizing the importance of #privacy and decentralization: the sovereign individual.

That's why #Monero


Can you question him selling the cryptocurrency he created?
Do you think he needs fiat to pay his employees or taxes?
Do you think it's a rug pull, or part of pump&dump?

This happens in Blockchains with CEOs..

That's why #Monero

https://u.today/ethereum-cofounder-vitalik-buterin-moves-large-eth-chunk-to-coinbase


What the government gives for free to some, it is because it has taken it coercively from others.

The state is the legalized mafia.

Keep voting to maintain the theft....


It's been a year and a half since I published a research article on Lightning Network.
Many criticized me. Evidently I touched the interests of different players.

Today, LN developers are walking away denouncing vulnerabilities in the network.

https://x.com/liberlion17/status/1542903243231137792

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/306444f981de2ab381a1820a2afec7ae7a405ba634f5ecb29015d486b37061e3.jpg


Article: Creator of Nostr blasts Bitcoin Lightning as ‘a scam’

https://finbold.com/creator-of-nostr-blasts-bitcoin-lightning-as-a-scam/


𝕄𝕣. 𝔹: Why do you say #Monero is scarce if you have implemented Tail Emission?

𝕄𝕣. 𝔸: Scarcity has to do not only with zero emission, it has to do more with demand, because if you don't emit anything but nobody demands it, what is the point of scarcity?
On the other hand, if you issue very little and demand is very high, there will be no inflation.
Tail Emission is a mechanism initiated by Monero to ensure that block rewards from mining the Monero token do not go to zero.  Tail emission commences at the end of May 2022. At this point, rewards will be fixed at 0.6 XMR per block. It is a minimum subsidy designed to keep fees low, provide a lower bound on network security, and allow for dynamic block sizes.
Tail issuance is important because it ensures that Monero has a certain amount of security standards, but removes the security burden of being 100% on transaction costs, allowing transaction costs to remain fair in the long run.  XMR supply is perfectly known, predictable, and able to be projected at any point in the future.

https://x.com/liberlion17/status/1657775287952613376


What is the most important thing about the #Monero blockchain to make its XMR cryptocurrency fungible?
#privacy , which is a consequence of its non-traceable ledger.

What is the second most important thing for fungibility?
Privacy by default. Privacy is not optional.


Will there be institutions investing in #Monero?
No

Will there be banks developing financial products on the Monero Blockchain?
No

Will there be companies centralizing the development of Monero?
No

Monero means p2p money for the sovereign individual.


ℕ𝕠 𝕤𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕗𝕝𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖.

Keep voting to maintain the corrupt system.


A seed of a crypto wallet containing only 12 words, the number of possible combinations to find a unique wallet would be 2048¹² = 2¹³² and the phrase would have 132 bits of security. However, some of the data in a BIP39 phrase is not random, so the actual security of a 12-word BIP39 seed phrase is reduced to 128 bits, or 2¹²⁸ combinations, but most experts consider it sufficiently secure. That number of combinations, in an integer, looks like this:
340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Can a Crypto Wallet Seed Phrase be Deciphered?
What many people wonder is, what are the odds that that combination will be the same as another wallet that was generated earlier, or generated later, or worse, that a hacker will crack it.

My article:  'What Exactly are Seed Phrases from Your Favorite Wallet and is it Secure?'

https://adapulse.io/what-exactly-are-seed-phrases-from-your-favorite-wallet-and-is-it-secure/
https://image.nostr.build/5a0a9939321243cb8fdad01e4b2b1e8fb566596e6b4f9814736fc1ebe8a78729.png


Wallets: One key pair to govern them all.

My article: 'What are hierarchical deterministic wallets (HD)?'

https://blog.blockmagnates.com/what-are-deterministic-hierarchical-wallets-hd-160853075203


Keep voting to hear fairy tales...
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Digital Identity.

Would you use a cryptographic protocol voluntarily (without government imposition) to store your information and use it selectively at your discretion?

Would you use it if it were centralized and closed source?
If it were decentralized and open source?


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“𝔽𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕙: 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕙 𝕚𝕤.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have faith without foundation it is narrative.
If you have foundation on data it is not faith, it is conviction.


DeFi Rule #1: if it's too good to be true, it's a scam
DeFi Rule #2: it's a scam until it's proven not to be
DeFi Rule #3: there are no exceptions to rules #1 and #2


Traceability is non-fungibility and it's dangerous.
See why.

What would happen if a terrorist organization sent you money, or if the laundered money found its way into your wallet by mistake or with intent to harm you?

Most blockchain like #Bitcoin do not have the ability to reject a receipt of money and if they know an address of your wallet from some transaction you made previously you are in danger.

You would be investigated by the government, of course as long as it was a blockchain with traceability.

Traceable money is not fungible.


Money loses the characteristic of fungibility if its owner is identified: marked money.

Money should be anonymous.

That's why #Monero


#Monero has no censorship
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When I started "The" Nostr I found your client there, on nostr.com.


Nostr Real Time Statistics: last 6 months

https://stats.nostr.band/
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Hey Vitor, why is Amehtyst no longer on nostr.com ?


Lightning network is vulnerable.
Mat Corallo claims that the solutions proposed by Antoine Riard  —mempool scanning (temporary memory for unconfirmed transactions) and transaction resignation and retransmission— are ineffective.

He argues that mempool scanning could be ineffective if an attacker quickly connects to the local Lightning node, and that transaction resignation and retransmission could be circumvented by an attacker with a large amount of processing power.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/022015.html


Keep voting by obeying your pastor to keep the corral tidy.
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What is FOSS?

FOSS stands for Free and Open-Source Software. It refers to software that is both free and open-source, meaning that anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and modify the software's source code.
FOSS has several benefits, including decreased software costs, increased security and stability (especially in regard to malware), protecting privacy, education, and giving users more control over their own hardware.


The learning of mathematical sciences and their professional application graphed in a function:

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Cryptospace philosophy:  Don't trust, verify

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Circular economy for crypto currencies is the most important goal we have.


Let there be dark..

https://video.nostr.build/a2c63cd8a8925fb51cd769b109d91037079bf7c7bff9048b90dc4f7a21cfa341.mp4


It is possible to simplify things, if you understand their essence...

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Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

A strategy used by politicians with the mass media.


⚫ The first bull market was in 2011, when BTC was seen as a new payment instrument.
⚫ The second bull market was related to China, where BTC gained recognition as an alternative form of money.
⚫ The third bull market was driven by the rise of ICOs.
⚫ The fourth bull market was associated with the development of DeFi and NFTs.
⚫ The fifth bull market appears to be related to institutional acceptance.

As you can see these are cycles and when institutions enter, the cycles will be manipulated.


When you are interested in a Blockchain development it is important to see its design, but it is key to know the philosophy and idiosyncrasies of the dev team, and if it is a company with a CEO, who manages the protocol, it is crucial to investigate him/her.


https://iris.to/note1v468rjpz77nfpjdlt9k4wuvz8kl2wy5w3gd6emud7fczuul9wgrsykuzpa

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There is no need to convince people about the importance of #decentralization and #privacy, just show data.
Time shows the way to those who understand.

Those who do not see, nor want to see, the facts cannot be convinced: there is no worse blind person than the one who does not want to see.


Time changes.. for many

Bitcoiners 2013 vs BiTcoiN3R$ 2023
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Cryptoeconomy builds a new system to replace the corrupt one

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I'm writing... no glory for hunters

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You need time to do the useful work.
You need vision to make the time useful.

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Are you from Argenland? 😉


Keep voting..

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The need for cryptoeconomics is more evident in underdeveloped economies, with weak states.

The need for privacy is more evident in developed economies, with strong states.

#Monero satisfies both needs, for the sovereign individual.


Technocracies are characterized by powerful actors and institutions capable of maintaining unequal positions of power through the use and control of technical knowledge.

Blockchain programmers enjoy a comparative advantage over users because by calibrating the blockchain over multiple iterations of prototypes, they establish a durable frame of reference through which they propose alternatives and make design decisions.

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Do you light up the sky?
Listen and pay attention to the lyrics

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tpaLuuwoZkQ&si=th_P0HCgwnPHKSGN


We are not that far away...
Large-scale AI will be the end of freedom.

https://image.nostr.build/b68f0e13e3f589cd4ed8e1325ecae42aa75c94a41a2633959cc652d586e7d07c.jpg


“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”
D̶a̶n̶t̶e̶ ̶A̶l̶i̶g̶h̶i̶e̶r̶i̶ ̶
—LiberLion


Blockchain Trilemma

—Without decentralization there is no security: the protocol may be secure, but if it is managed by a few, it becomes corrupt.

—Without security there is no scalability: the protocol may have greater user adoption and processing speed, but if there are vulnerabilities in the code that can be exploited, scalability is unsustainable.

Scalability is the least important variable in the blockchain trilemma.

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Words should not be counted, but weighed.
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𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐬: Hey Satoshi, how about an ETF on Wall Street?
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐍. : 🤦♂
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Technological innovations are accepted by society only if they solve a problem, are easy to use, have a quick learning curve, and are economically viable. But they must also establish their own value network, between suppliers and users who mutually benefit.

In short, technology is adopted, en masse, only if it adds value.

Currently, the demand is positioned more than anything in speculative terms, due to the volatility of the price of cryptocurrencies and their short-term economic incentive, but blockchain developments are showing a path of usefulness in a variety of applications, which satisfies the demand of people, but also institutions.

The challenge for the crypto space community is to achieve adoption without losing the blockchain essence: peer-to-peer decentralization.

My article: 'Beyond Blockchain Technology'

https://liberlion.medium.com/beyond-blockchain-technology-c5ba196852df
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The distributive logic of the State is that "much" must be taken from less to give "little" to many, because under universal representative democracy every vote is worth 1 and consequently this action serves to perpetuate and increase State plundering.


The State needs the concentration of economic power to grow.

That is why it creates economic monopolies or oligopolies.

It hates decentralization.

The perk is the tool. Crony capitalism.


Left and right are antagonisms created to divide society, fictions with a single objective: to sustain the power of the State.
The State is the enemy.


The iShares Bitcoin Trust has been listed on the DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, which clears NASDAQ trades).

BlackRock's ETF approval is imminent, they are the masters of the world, they want an etf so they have an etf.

Watch out from now on with the development of bitcoin, these people will not be satisfied with just owning btc.

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


Supporting the Bitcoin ETF means pricing the Bitcoin principles and selling them at the best offer.
Bitcoin is a speculative investment.

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Privacy  and anonymity are both important for protecting users in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
While #privacy  focuses on protecting personal data, #anonymity focuses on protecting identity.

#Monero has both characteristics.


Blockchain technology will have mass adoption, but it will be centralized, because the masses do not understand decentralization, they are only looking for speed and scalability.
Security is delegated to centralized entities.


"𝕀𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜𝕤 𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕤."
— Epictetus
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The #Agorism is a hard-fork of the centralized system.
The counter-economy is a decentralized trading system.
It's not about mass adoption, that's what banks are for, it's about freedom.
#Cryptoeconomics

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Blockchain technology will be truly disruptive when it uses in combination: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Quantum Computing.

That will be the end of #privacy and individual freedoms.
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Your data is the input: AI is the NWO.
You are your data.
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Do you know the difference between a Decentralized and a Distributed network?

Decentralized systems do not have a central owner. Instead, they use multiple clients, each of which typically stores a copy of the resources that users can access.

Decentralized networks use a variety of different connection points, or nodes, to make information available, but they do not have distributed decision-making power at each node.

The key feature of distributed networks, in contrast to decentralized networks, is the use of equally powerful connection points in the production of information.

In a distributed system, users have equal access to data, although user privileges can be enabled when necessary. The best example of a vast distributed system is the Internet itself.

My article: 'Decentralization Is Often An Overrated And Misunderstood Concept'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/decentralization-is-often-an-overrated-and-misunderstood-concept-63d2344ce1f8

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This makes it clear:
1. The lack of security prevailing in the company
2. KYC is the norm for the company

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

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Fiat money is useful for:
—Financing governments with emissions
—Manipulating the economy with inflationary taxes
—Benefiting friendly bankers
—Financing wars
—Financing bailouts
—Buying votes

Separation of money and state

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Great article
https://mises.org/wire/thinking-outside-state


Eats the same shit..

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Central authority is violence, always

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Privacy matters, that's why it is at risk

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Privacy violated
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/telegram-is-still-leaking-user-ip-addresses-to-contacts/


A whole new realm of economic and social activity is emerging in cyberspace that is not hostage to physical violence, in contrast to the state-regulated economy.

The most obvious benefits will accrue to those who understand that everyone is responsible for their personal sovereignty, which will increasingly operate outside of political boundaries.

#Cryptoeconomy


Austrian economics has as its main concept the valuation of goods and services, therefore demand is inherent to each person, who does it subjectively.

Subjectively we value some goods or services more than others, while others value in the opposite sense. When we trade we do not give up a value, but acquire a higher value. The utility we obtain is marginal, i.e. we value each new acquisition differently.

Value is subjective. This simple revelation, formulated by Carl Menger (Von Mises’ teacher), revolutionized primitive economics and solved most of the problems that had plagued the science since Adam Smith. If Marx had paid attention to Menger, communism would have been abandoned.

Subjective value leads to individualism.


The subjectivity of objective data

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“𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝒶𝓃𝑒 𝒷𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche


Monero is private by default and optionally semi-transparent!
See how.

When you create a Monero account you’ll have a private View Key, a private Spend Key, and a Public Address.
—The Spend Key is used to send payments.
—The View Key is used to display incoming tx destined for your account
—The Public Address is for receiving payments.

Both the Spend Key and View Key are used to build your Monero address.

You can have a “watch only” wallet that only uses the View Key. This feature can be used for accounting or auditing purposes but is currently unreliable due to the inability to track outgoing tx.
You can decide who can see your Monero balance by sharing your View Key.


Stealth addresses are an important part of Monero's inherent #privacy.
They allow and require the sender to create random one-time addresses for every transaction on behalf of the recipient.
The recipient can publish just one address, yet have all of his/her incoming payments go to unique addresses on the blockchain, where they cannot be linked back to either the recipient's published address or any other transactions' addresses.
By using stealth addresses, only the sender and receiver can determine where a payment was sent.


'Divide et Impera'

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To add value, remove complexity

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Bitcoin has no privacy.
It is not a bug, it is a feature.

That's why #Monero


That's why #Monero


Politics is a media circus, and you are the spectator who pays the ticket to applaud the antics (that run your life).

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The state of the enemy

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Wen a Monero ETF Gary?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TV2-UJWwMiE

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If a banker says that an investment is a quantum leap, rest assured that it is a leap into the void.

They never invest in businesses they can't control.
https://cryptopotato.com/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-calls-bitcoin-pump-a-flight-to-quality/


Cryptoeconomics for dummies
...hmmm?

Well, cryptoeconomics is not for dummies


On transparency in crypto development.

Open source is transparency and security for the user of a Blockchain, who can check the protocol code for bugs.

The traceability of the ledger provides information about the tx that violates the privacy of users, because third parties can see their funds and that violates individual security.

Not all transparency is the same.

That's why #Monero


Privacy is also security.
The increase in mass surveillance of citizens to control them has been clear in recent times.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) will be, and are being, issued on government-centralized, permissioned blockchains. I believe that its use will be mandatory in official wallets, replacing cash as the official circulating currency, and as the only means of payment in each country.

The idea of this article is to present Monero, one of the solutions that citizens can use to protect against the invasion of individual privacy.

This is why many say that privacy coins will be persecuted and banned in many countries, because governments do not want competition with the issuance and control of money, and even less when it is money without traceable records.

I include myself in that opinion.

But many also say that the usefulness that this type of technology will provide will be imperative to circumvent the tyrannical controls of central governments, which increasingly concentrate more power, and advance on the freedoms and privacy of people.

I also include myself in this opinion.

 My article: 'Monero Is Value In A World Without Privacy'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/monero-is-value-in-a-world-without-privacy-bd6f330400ae

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Bitcoin Mining Regulation is a “Divide and Conquer” Tactic.

Mining corporations will uniformly comply with the regulations. Corporate boards have a fiduciary duty to put investors’ earnings before personal values. We have already seen a case of censorship in the US, when Marathon, one of the largest bitcoin mining companies in the United States and Canada, has mined the first bitcoin block that complies with the OFAC ( Office of Foreign Assets Control ): Marathon Mines First OFAC Compliant Bitcoin Blockde .

Since the large corporate mining pools control most of the hash rate ( 5 mining farms own 51% of the hash rate ), and are primarily motivated by profit, most of the hash rate is likely to remain. where it is legal (regulated), and more profitable to mine Bitcoin.

Institutions control most of the Bitcoin mining hash rate, and institutions actively seek regulation.

KYC is the Ultimate Goal.
After Western governments regulate Bitcoin mining, it will be much easier for Bitcoin to be traded mostly through regulated exchanges, and KYC (Know Your Customer) will be the norm.

My article: 'Regulations Will Attack Bitcoin Decentralization'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/regulations-will-attack-bitcoin-decentralization-193e3a8858ef

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#Monero is the only money that is competition for governments. Let's see why.

Governments don't want competition with money, they want complete control. Central banks as issuers of money control the flow of commerce, making it more expensive or cheaper.

Cryptocurrencies like #Bitcoin are not money competition for governments, because their ledger is traceable, and their miners are identified by their high energy consumption, and therefore regulators can control BTC with laws and corrupt their fungibility.

Because Monero is anonymous, it actually serves as an off-shore account without a bank account. Government officials will not succeed in banning it, firstly because it is impossible to shut down a decentralized network, because they cannot identify its miners and, secondly, because they cannot read its ledger, because it is untraceable.

Monero means money.

Separation of money and State.


Imagine a country without a central bank. What would have happened in the pandemic?
Fiscal income was reduced and compensated with an internal money printing press.
Only the Federal Reserve pumped the 6 billion dollars that were needed to compensate for the lost taxes and bribes of one billion dollars that it cost to get the voters to accept the employer closures.
Now we face economic and social consequences. Millions of people are still out of work years later, billions of debt with no end in sight.

Fiat money is corruption.
Separation of money and State.


What would a sidechain on the Monero Blockchain bring to develop DeFi?
What about a cross-chain bridge interoperable with another Blockchain?

Loss of privacy and security.


Coffee chats☕

𝐌𝐫.𝐀:  #Monero is an open-source, independently audited software that ensures the highest security standard.  Your coins are yours, and no one can take them

𝐌𝐫.𝐁: but, there is no corporation or VC that funds the project, how can it works without money?

𝐌𝐫.𝐀: The development is funded by Community Crowdfunding System to protect against malicious actors and means decentralization.

𝐌𝐫.𝐁: Decentralization doesn't work, we need hierarchies for society to function, or there would be anarchy

𝐌𝐫.𝐀: 😎


Are you a bot on X?
Verify your phone number and pay to prove you are human.

New Zealand and the Philippines are the testing labs.

KYC is a business and a mass surveillance tool.

help.twitter.com/en/using-x/not…

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A: No corporation, government or third party can see the content of transactions on #Monero blockchain. No one but the sender and the receiver can see how much was sent. No one can see your balance. Even your IP is hidden by default.

B: Oh! then only criminals will want to use Monero!

A: Sure, if you consider #privacy a crime.


The crypto ecosystem proposes individual financial sovereignty, based on DLT technology (Distributed Ledger Technology) and its peer-to-peer decentralization, and this is a threat to governments and the globalist elite.

The objective of regulators is clear: to control the blockchain industry so as not to lose its global economic power.

This article has nothing to do with conspiracy theories, the information presented is official, and my analysis is not based on speculation.

Conspiracies do not exist… for those who have not studied history.

My article: 'Understanding The Global Regulatory Framework For Cryptoassets: The Globalists’ Approach'

https://liberlion.medium.com/understanding-the-global-regulatory-framework-for-cryptoassets-the-globalists-approach-0fa92ee3d917
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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘥

Is the State looking out for you?

Pfizer acknowledges Covid mRNA vaccines "show increased risk" of myocarditis and pericarditis

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-amends-us-government-paxlovid-supply-agreement-and
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Wars are an instrument of power, where one State subjugates another.
But they are also an instrument of distraction to justify extreme measures.

The unpayable US debt needs an "alternative solution".

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The cryptospace is divided into cryptoindustry and cryptoeconomy.

The crypto industry is the development of mass products that exclusively seek profitability, trying to satisfy a certain demand.

The cryptoeconomy is the p2p development of the economy in society that seeks individual sovereignty.

The first difference between the two is that in the first one there is a vertical government of CEOs, and in the second one anarchism rules.


If you want extraordinary results, concentrate your focus on..

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Some people live on created illusions.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of reality.

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—What is Monero's privacy policy?
—What are Monero's terms of use?
—What kind of identification is needed to own XMR?
—How many XMR were distributed in an ICO?
—What is the traceability of the Monero's ledger?
—How many companies maintain control over the development and keys of the Monero network protocol?

The answer is "none" for all questions, and that means Blockchain decentralization and fungibility of the money.


"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. "

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Individual Sovereignty


Why is Nostr better than Mastodon on #privacy?
Mastodon ties identity to DNS server IP addresses. IP addresses are tied to physical locations which the basis for government control.
While Nostr binds identity to public keys beyond the reach of the tyranny of centralized power.
Also on Mastodon, groups have de-federation lists, which is coordinated censorship.

And 𝕏 ? ..Well, it's like comparing centralized exchanges and self-custodial crypto wallets.


The limit between a complex system and a simple one is that it should not be so complex that only experts can use it, nor so simple that only dummies want to use it.

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Many developers are looking for the Swiss army knife, the "all-in-one", and that is a complex system.

—A complex system requires simplicity in use, otherwise it will not be adopted.
—The more complex the system, the greater the probability of errors in its operation and the greater the vulnerability to attack.
—When changes are made to improve or fix bugs in a complex system, things that work well can be broken.
—They often have feedback loops, in which the outputs of the system influence its inputs, resulting in self-regulating or self-reinforcing behavior. These feedback loops can make it difficult to control the behavior of the system.
—Complex systems often exhibit nonlinear behavior, small changes in the initial conditions or inputs can lead to disproportionate effects or outcomes

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Many developers are looking for the Swiss army knife, the "all-in-one", and that is a complex system.
—A complex system requires simplicity in use, otherwise it will not be adopted.
—The more complex the system, the greater the probability of errors in its operation and the greater the vulnerability to attack.
—When changes are made to improve or fix bugs in a complex system, things that work well can be broken.


A: Does #Monero have an L2?
B: No.

A: Why not?
B: It doesn't need it.

A: What about scalability?
B: It scales in L1 with dynamic blocks. The size of blocks is flexible and can accommodate many tx as demand changes. Formulas determine how the reward miners receive interacts with the number of tx they choose to include in blocks. The blockchain can therefore scale to meet changes in transaction volume.

A: What about a DeFi-L2?
B: Monero is money, it is not a financial system.

A: Could it be an L2?
B: Yes.


If an individual wants to lead a person and impose his will on him he is labeled a manipulator, but if he has an abnormally strong desire for power and control, often accompanied by delusions of grandeur and a heightened sense of self-importance, he will be president, because democracy encourages megalomaniacs.

The difference between a manipulator and a megalomaniac is scale.


If the most basic purpose of cryptography is to ensure the security of communications, how can it not be a major threat to governments because they lose control of mass surveillance?

Internet cryptography is one of the most revolutionary tools of all time, because it gives individuals information sovereignty.


The triumph of fiat money has created an economic system that enriches states and politically connected individuals at the expense of the rest of society.

The triumph of the dollar, which has financed the US empire and has become the basis of the world economy. With US debt as the world's most reliable financial asset, America has enjoyed the privilege of incredible power, based on indebtedness, which is not sustainable in the long run.


DLT vs Blockchain

The main difference between Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and blockchain is that blockchain is a specific type of DLT with additional features, while DLT is a broader concept that encompasses various types of distributed ledgers.

Blockchains are typically decentralized, meaning there is no single point of failure, and the system is managed by various participants without a central authority.  On the other hand, some DLTs may have a centralized owner or operator.

In a blockchain, data is grouped together and organized in blocks, which are then linked and secured using cryptography. DLTs, on the other hand, can have different data structures and may not use a chain of blocks to provide secure and valid distributed consensus.

Blockchains often use a consensus mechanism, such as proof of work or proof of stake, to agree on the state of the ledger and validate transactions. DLTs may have different consensus mechanisms or may not require one at all.


Some blockchain developments have moved away from the guiding principle of p2p decentralization and build infrastructure for bankers and governments.
This is not the design that Satoshi Nakamoto (like Cypherpunk) intended.
Technology can be applied for good or bad.


Life is based on principles, if you lose them you lose your way.
It also applies to blockchain...
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Sell value, not your time .
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"Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers."
—Thomas Sowell


Be selective about who you give your time to...

"The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve"
—Buckminster Fuller


The omnipresent State..
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The greatest threat to the individual is the State and its collectivism.
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In a paper published in 2020, the robustness of Monero was demonstrated against efforts in recovering obfuscated transaction values using Machine Learning tools, while classifiers for identiﬁcation of fake transactions and identiﬁcation of factions/groups/users proved informative.

However, it was found that despite the complexities created by Monero's enhanced privacy features, the blockchain is still susceptible to decryption, and remains susceptible to de-anonymization and information gathering using ML techniques.

To establish this fact, test networks were developed to generate simulated blockchains. It should be noted that recent versions of Monero now force the RingCT size to be eleven; as ring number-derived features have been the most informative in the ShapeShift analysis, this change is expected to greatly improve privacy in the future, however, as previous studies have shown, the residuals of past transaction history are likely to remain for some time as these new features modify the underlying distributions of features.

'Simulated Blockchains for Machine Learning Traceability and Transaction Values in the Monero Network'
https://www.academia.edu/96405136/Simulated_Blockchains_for_Machine_Learning_Traceability_and_Transaction_Values_in_the_Monero_Network


"Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property."

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto —Timothy C. May (1988)

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/


We live in a world regulated by politicians, with laws designed by a global elite, which seeks control over the destinies of our planet.

Although this initial paragraph may seem like it, this article does not intend to narrate government conspiracy theories, but rather a look at documents and publications, seeking to understand the direction of regulations for the crypto industry.

Understanding the regulations facing the crypto industry is key to deciding your investments, and how they will affect the utility proposed by each blockchain ecosystem, even more so in some countries with more state interference in business than others.

My new article: 'Understanding The Global Regulatory Framework For Cryptoassets: The Globalists’ Approach'

https://adapulse.io/understanding-the-global-regulatory-framework-for-cryptoassets-the-globalists-approach/

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Traceability means no fungibility and no privacy.


Password access will be eliminated by large technology companies and will be replaced by biometric access.

Paper Fiat will be eliminated by governments and will be replaced by electronic money (CBDCs).
Biometric electronic wallets will be created to identify money holders. State money will not be fungible.

The choice for privacy and individual freedom will be decentralized and open source apps, and anonymous and untraceable money.

That's Why #Monero


The only way to know that the #Bitcoin you bought really exists is to withdraw from the exchange or service to your own wallet.


#Privacy is what differentiates individuals from the masses.
There is no point in being an individual if you have no privacy.


#Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the internet.
Cryptography for privacy.


Hal Finney, the first person to receive #Bitcoin from Satoshi, took 11 days to realize he wanted more anonymity.

That's Why #Monero 😎
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Cryptocurrency transactions are decentralized, anonymous and peer-to-peer, and use blockchain technology and cryptographic hashing to ensure trust in the system.

If the tx does not meet this feature in Distribute Ledger Technology it is not cryptocurrency, it is fiat money issued by private parties.


How many cryptocurrencies can support this definition?

Cryptocurrency is a fungible token issued and traded by a decentralized cryptographic ledger system that is not subject to the control of any central authority, nor can it be censored, and is used as a medium of exchange that is not legal tender.


"To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"
—Buckminster Fuller
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Not all targets deserve attention
Not all my enemies are dangerous
Choose your battles

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Normality is a subjective illusion, what is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

It is not a matter of altruism, but of exchanging collaboration.


'SimpleX Chat Review' by sethforprivacy

#PrivacyMatters

https://freedom.tech/simplex-chat-review/


#Monero 0.18.3.1 'Fluorine Fermi' released
This release of the Monero software optimizes wallet refresh and contains important bug fixes.
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/compare/v0.18.2.2...v0.18.3.1

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Tools that were intended for individual sovereignty are being adapted for use by the corrupt financial system.

Many rejoice when they read news about a CEO of a blockchain developer making deals with governments, or designing rules to be accepted by the legal system.

Bankers are co-opting the blockchain.

Most have 🍧🐺  𝒶𝐃σ𝓅ţᎥỖŇ  🐚♘    instead of    𝕃𝕀𝔹𝔼ℝ𝕋𝕐
 engraved on their foreheads.

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No, the most important first step is to understand the individual sovereignty for which Bitcoin was designed, as a p2p crypto-economy.


Don't you see? Crystal clear to me.
Some imagine the end of humanity by a world war with nuclear weapons, others imagine it with an extraterrestrial invasion.

I imagine the end of humanity with transhumanism, which in its final evolutionary stage will be developed by AI based on quantum computing.
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First it was Ordinals (NFT), then Turing-complete off-chain programmability, #Bitcoin is copying shitcoins.

BitVM is a computing paradigm to express Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts. Potential applications include games like Chess, Go, or Poker.
This requires no changes to the network’s consensus rules. Rather than executing computations on Bitcoin, they are merely verified, similarly to optimistic rollups.

A prover makes a claim that a given function evaluates for some particular in puts to some specific output. If that claim is false, then the verifier can perform a succinct fraud proof and punish the prover.

Using this mechanism, any computable function can be verified on Bitcoin.
Committing to a large program in a Taproot address requires significant amounts of off-chain computation and communication, however the resulting on-chain footprint is minimal. As long as both parties collaborate, they can perform arbitrarily complex, stateful off-chain computation, without leaving any trace in the chain. On-chain execution is required only in case of a dispute.

https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf


"War is a massacre between people who do not know each other, for the benefit of people who know each other but do not massacre each other".
 —Paul Valéry

Wars are massacres of citizens initiated by States led by an elite that seeks only to preserve its power.

The State is our enemy.

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We live in a world regulated by politicians, with laws designed by a global elite, which seeks control over the destinies of our planet.

Although this may seem like so, my next article does not intend to narrate government conspiracy theories, but rather a look at documents and publications, seeking to understand the direction of regulations for the crypto industry.


Asymmetric cryptography, also known as public-key cryptography, is a type of encryption that uses a pair of related keys to encrypt and decrypt data .
The two keys in the key pair are a public key and a private key.
The public key is freely available to anyone, while the private key is kept secret by the owner.

Yes, it is the type of cryptography used in blockchain.


Globalist governance is centralization
Globalized trade is decentralization


YOUR ⁱᵍⁿᵒʳᵃⁿᶜᵉ is THEIR P҉O҉W҉E҉R҉


This is the secret of the information...
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All is ■■■■■
■■■■■ well,
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Your ■■■■■■■■■■
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Hacking the corrupt system is true freedom
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The more smart devices you have at home, the less privacy and freedom you have.
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The great problem of mankind is the inability to understand the exponential function.

First gradually and then suddenly, that's how the universe works.
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Agree 💯x 💯
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💯
.. the same for me as an anarchist

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𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕔𝕜𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕓𝕖 𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕔𝕣𝕪𝕡𝕥𝕠𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪, 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕚𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝟛.𝟘

#Blockchain ⩥ open source


You are your data..
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See the date..
That's Why #Monero

https://x.com/halfin/status/1136749815?s=20
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Progress is deciding what to stop doing..
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A key variable for the success of a DLT system is the cost of operation.

There are two types of costs: verification cost and network cost.

—Verification cost is related to the consensus rules established in the code, which define how tokens are created and earned, (monetary policy) and how the network reaches agreement on the true ownership status over time.

—The network cost is the amount of inputs required to run a node, such as energy and computing resources.

Both costs are positively related, and that relationship can change over time.


Binance faces regulatory and legal challenges; investors react.}
In September, spot trading volume on the bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency exchange Binance fell 37.9% to $115 billion. This is the lowest monthly volume for the exchange since October 2020.
https://assets-global.website-files.com/63e3774c88285e5c6cbf3b9d/651edbe9835f453a27e6ffa0_Exchange%20Review%20September.pdf

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Los políticos crean problemas y soluciones para éstos. Manipulación que no todos pueden ver.


"It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom."
—Ludwig Von Mises


I prefer the old Iris..


Weakness is when men prefer equality in servitude to inequality in liberty....

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All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
—Lysander Spooner


Conspiracies do not exist..
for those who have not studied history.

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What is the livelihood of tyrannies?
Obedience.
What is the obstacle to freedom?
The search for security.

A security-seeking society is obedient.

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#Monero was designed for #privacy.
Its non-traceable ledger makes it (almost) impossible to monitor and control. It is the enemy of govs.

#Cardano was designed for transparency.
Its traceable general ledger and programmability allow the creation of applications.
It is friendly to govs.


Global Communism 2.0
No Privacy, No Property: The World In 2030 According To The WEF.

In a promotional video, the World Economic Forum summarizes the eight predictions in the following statements:

1. People will own nothing. Goods are either free of charge or must be lent from the state.
2. The United States will no longer be the leading superpower, but a handful of countries will dominate.
3. Organs will not be transplanted but printed.
4. Meat consumption will be minimized.
5. Massive displacement of people will take place with billions of refugees.
6. To limit the emission of carbon dioxide, a global price will be set at an exorbitant level.
7. People can prepare to go to Mars and start a journey to find alien life.
8. Western values will be tested to the breaking point.


In the crypto space there is a widely used phrase which is "banking the unbanked" referring to the use of cryptocurrencies.

And for me it is just the opposite, when people use cryptocurrencies (with self-custody) the banked are unbanked.

Bank run


Do you go shouting down the street how much money and values you have?
No, you don't, do you?
And why do you post on social networks your crypto holdings?


Do you go to the supermarket for your daily groceries with all the money in your savings?
And why do you have all your funds in one wallet that you use for trading?


Another top 5 loser comment is "you make that criticism just to attract attention" instead of refuting the criticism.
Maximalism is emotional fanaticism, not rational.


A principle is a broad concept that supports a base of ideals, foundations, rules and/or policies, from which ideologies, theories, doctrines, religions and sciences are born.

The principles can be moral, the behavior according to certain social values, or ethical, the appropriate behavior of those social values. They can also be scientific, like Archimedean Principle, in physics.

Blockchain design principles bring together a bit of all of these.

I will explain the main principles, and although some more could be included, I consider that they would be related, or would be a consequence of these. Let’s see.

My article: 'Blockchain Could Be A Game Changer If Its Principles Are Respected'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/blockchain-could-be-a-game-changer-if-its-principles-are-respected-fb9d47ce27a6

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Reading in dark mode..
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Few..
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When superficial changes are implemented to address underlying problems, there are often poor results.

The remembered battle of the block size in the Bitcoin community did not have a unanimous consensus, and for this reason there was a separation of systems, and  it led to a Hard Fork, with the new Bitcoin Cash blockchain.

Bitcoin Core devs have always denied the possibility of increasing the block size directly, but have introduced patches like SegWit and Taproot to gain efficiency and security.

My article: 'The Debasement Of Bitcoin. A Lesson To Learn.'
https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-debasement-of-bitcoin-a-lesson-to-learn-2844bdda35d4

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Slaves being slaves...
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Imagine if everyone knew everything about you at all times, even what you think, wouldn’t you be very vulnerable? Of course you would.

You are your data.

Preserving information about yourself is not a crime, nor does it originate from any criminal act, but simply provides you with security.

You cannot be secure if you do not have privacy. Privacy is part of security, but it is not the only component.

My article: 'The Importance of Privacy and Decentralized Identity. You are your data.'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-importance-of-privacy-and-decentralized-identity-you-are-your-data-fe3668b5b73c

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Blockchain governance, in its decentralized application, consists of two parts: “social governance”, i.e. the governance and incentive model, and “algorithmic governance administration”, an electronic code that manages the model with smart contracts.

My article: 'Defining Decentralized Governance and the Multitude of Different Models'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/defining-decentralized-governance-and-the-multitude-of-different-models-3d631bb255e2

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The crypto space has two types of projects:

—the pioneer (#Bitcoin or #Monero) where the developer community has created a monetary system with anarchic governance,
or
—that of a company (most blockchains) with a CEO, with hierarchical governance

You have to understand the context to know which ecosystem you want to participate in.

In the second case, the leader dictates the path.


The effectiveness of the second layer of protection added by a Hardware Wallet is reduced if you do not use this security device correctly to safeguard your funds in your non-custodial wallet.

I invite you to follow these good practices of use to maintain its full potential.

Most of the users believe that a Hardware Wallet is used to store private keys, but it is more than that.

My article:
https://medium.com/coinmonks/good-practices-for-hardware-wallets-e24303918e54

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Have you ever wondered if it is possible for someone to crack the seed in your wallet? I’m not referring to someone being able to find where you keep it, but to find it mathematically.

Could a hacker, using brute force, decrypt your seed knowing your public address?

My article: 'What Exactly are Seed Phrases from Your Favorite Wallet and is it Secure?'

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Are you a Windows user but don't love Bill Gates enough to give him "all" your privacy?

https://www.geckoandfly.com/25083/free-tools-disable-stop-windows-spying-tracking-you/

*Disclaimer: do your own research before installing any of the suggested applications.


The democratic system cannot fight centralized corruption, because the system is corruption.

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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices around you: mass surveillance.

Geolocation is not only done by triangulation of mobile antennas. It is also done using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices around you.

Operating system manufacturers such as Google (Android) and Apple (IOS) maintain a handy database of most Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth devices, as well as their location. When your Android smartphone or iPhone is turned on (and not in Flat mode), it will actively scan (unless you specifically disable this feature in the settings) for Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth devices around you and will be able to geolocate you more accurately than when using GPS. This active and continuous polling can be sent to Google/Apple/Microsoft as part of your telemetry.

The problem is that this polling is unique and can be used to uniquely identify a user and track them. Stores, for example, can use this technique to fingerprint customers, including when they return, where they enter the store and how long they stay in a particular location.
This allows them to provide accurate locations even when GPS is turned off, but also allows them to keep a convenient record of all Bluetooth Wi-Fi devices around the world. Which can then be accessed by them or third parties for tracking.


Do you know the difference between a Decentralized and a Distributed network?
I had doubts about the subtle difference, or not so subtle, since I later understood it.

My article: 'Decentralization Is Often An Overrated And Misunderstood Concept'

https://medium.com/coinmonks/decentralization-is-often-an-overrated-and-misunderstood-concept-63d2344ce1f8


The "human" jungle: a pack of wolves rules a flock of sheep, for the benefit of some vultures...on the other side, lions.

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I tried to find science and found all kinds of regulations.
Then, I searched through all the regulations and followed the money trail, and I found the science.

If you cannot question it, it is not science... it's propaganda

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Monero was created in 2014 as a fork of a project called “Bytecoin” by a small community of developers.

Monero is not a fork of Bitcoin, and uses an entirely new codebase called “Cryptonote” that has evolved into the Monero protocol.

Monero was started with three core aims – privacy that is usable and approachable for the masses, by default, a scalable and iterating base-layer, and ASIC-resistance to enable commodity hardware mining which aids decentralization.

Monero enables this default privacy for all users of the network through a variety of means:
—RingCT: this technology hides all amounts sent and received on-chain (via Confidential Transactions), as well as hides which output is actually being spent among (currently) 10 others (via ring signatures). This requires no coordination and is completely non-interactive (unlike CoinJoin) and happens entirely via the protocol itself.
—Stealth addresses: this technology hides sender and receiver addresses on-chain by letting the sender generate a one-time address using the receiver’s public key, so no actual addresses are ever published to the blockchain.
—Dandelion++: This technology helps to hide the sender’s IP address when sending Monero by using a special method of relaying transactions to other nodes.


Nothing new under the sun..


The rationale that regulators use is that #KYC is created to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, but we know, and it has been shown that over time and since its implementation in the 1970s, it is not effective, and banks are the first launderers of illicit funds, not complying with their own KYC, but complying with yours.

The ‘progressive KYC’ is a disease that is spreading slowly, but with dark ends, which exceed its initial purpose.

If you buy through one of these regulated entities, they essentially tag your fund addresses with your personal identity.
This makes it easier for government-contracted blockchain surveillance companies like Chainalysis , the largest forensic consultancy.

Objectives:
—Track your spending habits
—Prevent you from using other unregulated services
—Confiscate your funds, when deemed necessary
—Impose tax obligations
—They usually know more about you than they should

Why is it a Risk to Provide this Information? :
—Data leakage
—Sale of data

If you buy with KYC the exchange knows:
—who are you
—how much did you buy
—when did you buy it
—your bank information
—where do you transfer your funds

So:  https://kycnot.me/


Metadata  is often described as everything except the content of your communications.

You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope.

Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata.

Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples of metadata include:

—the subject line of your emails
—the length of your conversations
—the time frame in which a conversation took place
—your location when communicating (as well as with whom)


While having one secure device that contains important, confidential information may help protect it from adversaries, it also creates an obvious target.

There’s also a risk  of losing the only copy of your data if the machine is destroyed. If your adversary would benefit from you losing all your data, don't keep it in just one place, no matter how secure.

Encrypt a copy and keep it somewhere else.


What steps can you take to set up a secure computer?

—Keep your device well-hidden and don’t discuss its location—somewhere where you are able to tell if it has been tampered with, such as a locked cabinet.
—Encrypt your computer’s hard drive with a strong passphrase so that if it is stolen, the data will remain unreadable without the passphrase.
—Keep your device offline. Unsurprisingly, the best way to protect yourself from Internet attacks or online surveillance is to never connect to the Internet.
—Don’t log in to your usual accounts. If you do use your secure device to connect to the Internet, create separate web or email accounts that you use for communications from this device, and use Tor (see guides for Linux, macOS, Windows) to keep your IP address  hidden from those services.


Make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical!

We all have a right to #privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and no longer relying on proprietary services.

https://prism-break.org/en/all/


The problem 𝕏 (and social networks in general) faces with bots is a laboratory test for what's to come.

With AI, bots will become increasingly powerful, and even more so with machine learning, and their dominance on the Internet will be on a global scale.

The new virus.

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"To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them."

—Lysander Spooner


Dynamic block size in Monero adjusts to network demands, potentially avoiding congestion.


In the information age, your personal data is a commodity lining the pockets of the world's largest companies, and in most cases, without your authorization.

—Data is individual.
—Metadata are general behaviors in a time and space environment.


Don't accept the least bad, believing that there is nothing else.

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"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."
—William Blake

The higher up the power ladder, the fewer doors want to be opened.

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"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it.
The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."

—Thomas Sowell

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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
—Thomas Sowell


All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. —Albert Einstein

Collectivism annuls the individual, that is why tyrannies are based on collectivism and the cancellation of the individual.


Hey argentinean bro, trust your gov!

🇦🇷 August 2023 inflation was 12.4% (MoM), the highest since February 1991. (Gov data)

🚨 In 8 months it reaches 80.2% and in 12 months it reaches 124.4%.

🔥🌶 Food went up 15.6%.

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Skin in the game?
Yes, your skin in their game.
Social credit in your body

Microsoft has patented a cryptocurrency mining system that leverages human activities, including brain waves and body heat, when performing online tasks such as using search engines, chatbots, and reading ads.
“A user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,” the patent reads.
https://news.bitcoin.com/microsoft-cryptocurrency-system/


The phone number is KYC and KYC is a risk for the user

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Freedom is a mind outside the state..

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Strong individuals make strong communities.


I agree.
Drivechain opens the gates of hell..
Garbage will enter L1.


Argentina is an agorist paradise
DYOR


Socialism believes that it is okay to plunder in order to distribute.
It is the basis of the ideology.

They are so convinced, that using the state apparatus to go after the goods of others, they do not call it stealing, but "social justice".


Milei did not say that there will be free competition of currencies and in his plan there was no Bitcoin.
He is a conservative, not a libertarian.


Why?