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npub14a6q6xvt4wuv0wpdpfr336e4fweldtu6np3ehpw55h83xuw2h2zsgyz6rn

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2026-03-14 06:38:32 CET

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#nevent1q…2aec

2026-03-13 07:45:41 CET

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

2026-03-12 07:04:00 CET

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

2026-03-11 06:51:57 CET

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

2026-03-11 06:26:54 CET

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

2026-03-08 12:33:19 CET

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

2026-03-08 12:12:46 CET

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

2026-03-08 10:23:51 CET

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Weird 🤔

2026-03-08 08:31:44 CET

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

2026-03-06 07:39:24 CET

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Ungovernable Misfits should have a podcast out by tomorrow with Seth on to give a bit more detail on it
#nevent1q…k5kw

2026-03-04 10:29:20 CET

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Is there any reason for the XMR step? Seems unnecessary if you're not starting off with it.
Swap BTC on-chain to LN with Trocador, Robosats, or Boltz.
Or go fiat to LN directly with Robosats.
https://trocador.app/
https://learn.robosats.org/docs/access/#-robosats-federated-client-with-tor
https://boltz.exchange/

2026-03-04 09:26:04 CET

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monstr can be installed on your phone as a web app, but other than that none that I know of. Garnet was the first actual app but the original dev abandoned it a long time ago
I think I've seen the Bitcoin Cash one you're speaking of seemed interesting

2026-03-03 11:09:46 CET

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

2026-03-03 09:45:19 CET

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Thanks for the info Soul
Do you know if these extra fees go to Spark even if you're using Cake Wallets implementation? If not, does Cake charge?
Still, I could see how the fees and trust assumptions might be worth it for some users to avoid certain UX aspects of using Lightning directly when they're forced to use it.
I've seen others like @npub1g0a…gqpz mention how the Spark entity can collude with a user to steal from another. The privacy also doesnt seem very great atm. Though to be fair it seems better than on-chain Bitcoin or default Spark where your transactions are fully public.
Either way I wasn't making any recommendation with this just presenting a new development and people can delve further into the details themselves

2026-03-03 08:00:32 CET

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

2026-02-28 08:09:18 CET

https://xcancel.com/shopinbit/status/2026996307030638927?s=20
https://files.sovbit.host/6c5fdb8a09f45978b0bac3829fb3ff41f1a4a9ab73a242027c47dd8209acc4b6.jpeg

2026-02-27 07:16:08 CET

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

2026-02-27 07:08:30 CET

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

2026-02-20 07:41:20 CET

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

2026-02-17 07:43:32 CET

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You would think

2026-02-17 07:22:45 CET

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

2026-02-17 07:13:55 CET

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I find it funny that in the longrun all they did was further distribute the hashrate making it more decentralized than it was before by just adding another mining pool to Monero

2026-02-15 07:40:04 CET

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

2026-02-15 07:10:52 CET

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What made you change your mind?

2026-02-15 07:03:15 CET

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When does the new cake UX drop?

2026-02-14 06:45:15 CET

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

2026-02-09 09:30:54 CET

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

2026-02-09 09:28:02 CET

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

2026-02-08 07:05:05 CET

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

2026-01-28 06:17:52 CET

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Not that I know of 🤔

2026-01-23 06:47:18 CET

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Same. This guy thinks I don't use Lightning. I'm just being upfront about the weaknesses. Neither Monero or Lightning is perfect and has their own pain points.
Off the top of my head routing is constrained by liquidity so it limits your potential paths to a destination instead of being chosen at random (ideal case for onion routing). The effect becomes more pronounced the larger the payment that you're sending. The more channels a node has on the network, and lower the fees, the more likely it is going to be chosen to be a hop on your route.
I already mentioned this but Lightning amounts aren't encrypted. MPP helps a lot for all this, but still reveals a lower bound and also isn't default for the network. More adoption of blinded paths would also help (preferably default). Something that affects both Tor and LN is that there is no mixing or dummy traffic/transactions which would make it even better from a privacy perspective. But I'm not sure if that is even possible on LN the way it is designed at least.

2026-01-23 06:06:50 CET

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

2026-01-23 05:54:13 CET

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No one is talking shit calm down

2026-01-22 11:49:57 CET

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

2026-01-22 07:05:48 CET

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

2026-01-22 06:28:17 CET

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

2026-01-22 06:21:38 CET

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Bitcoin should adopt Zcash shielded pools. 21 million would be preserved on the transparent side with turnstiles and it's optional so if someone doesn't want to use shielded pools because they don't trust it they don't have to.

2026-01-20 06:56:36 CET

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

2026-01-17 06:19:20 CET

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Not exactly technically but maybe "default coinjoin" is a useful analogy when explaining it to someone newer... though unlike coinjoins, amounts are hidden and address reuse on-chain is made impossible.

2026-01-17 05:58:55 CET

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Well this is Nostr...Lightning heavy environment. I don't think most would deny using Bitcoin it has it's advantages. There are some clients that support Monero but you wouldn't know if they were tipped (or tip) in Monero because it doesn't broadcast that over Nostr. I tip and get tipped Monero fairly often here.

2026-01-16 06:30:56 CET

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

2026-01-16 06:23:30 CET

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

2026-01-14 06:32:08 CET

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

2026-01-11 03:57:04 CET

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

2026-01-03 04:29:59 CET

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

2025-12-28 06:06:07 CET

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

2025-12-28 05:59:46 CET

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

2025-12-25 04:24:45 CET

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

2025-12-18 09:46:31 CET

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

2025-12-18 09:22:29 CET

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Oh I thought it was p2p electronic cash

2025-12-18 07:02:48 CET

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They talk about that conversation we had a few weeks ago around 19:15 @npub150q…en2h
#note1x27…w5lg

2025-12-18 06:41:45 CET

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How do I send physical cash over the internet

2025-12-15 06:58:41 CET

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

2025-12-14 03:11:41 CET

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

2025-12-13 05:36:29 CET

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Como o quê?

2025-12-13 05:15:54 CET

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Heres a few more:
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange

2025-12-13 05:10:15 CET

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

2025-12-08 04:50:20 CET

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

2025-12-07 04:17:23 CET

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https://xmrbazaar.com/

2025-12-07 04:02:31 CET

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Not sure what any of that has to do specifically with Monero. The problem is obviously coming from the cash/physical side of things. Applies just as much to trading Bitcoin for cash too. Cash-by-mail is the most popular fiat payment method on Bisq and Reto for a reason. If everyone was constantly getting scammed no one would do it.
You can make it as private/anonymous/risky as you want depending what side of the trade you're on. You don't need a name or return address if you are sending cash by mail. There are multiple ways to mitigate risk (unnocuously leave marks inside the package and record everything in one go for the arbitrator in case of a dispute) but it's always going to be there to some degree like anything else. It's the receiver who is going to have more of a problem with privacy. If all they care about is privacy from the counterparty they can just use a PO Box.
If you do an in-person trade neither party needs to know anything about the other and no arbitrator required.
Bitcoiners are always talking about how important large anonymity sets are. Billions of letters and packages go through the postal system every year. Post offices are unwittingly the largest drug dealers in the world. If people were constantly getting busted for it that wouldn't be true.

2025-12-07 03:24:06 CET

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Liquid doesn't have permissionless exit so isn't a true sidechain.
Hidden inflation risk comes from cryptographic assumptions via confidential transactions (which Liquid also has).
You don't know what you're talking about.

2025-06-23 15:11:39 CEST

If anyone is interested in trying out the Pubky invite only beta ask @npub13nd…0svh for an invite code
A brief comparison of Nostr vs Pubky (mostly accurate I think):
https://nostr.download/51576d74df92ad7734292d62f319e2f9f314a885e5cf9ef795f4b4bb07a00d33.webp
https://nostr.download/4c4056651ca06e0ae382a64de060c8659322ffc4ca28035526cb75a48f7e61f9.webp
My public key:
egheqxn78mst7pwdshtgxmgctsqspwhzqir1nucjgc981kbj8ujy
https://pubky.app/